Teachers’ Attitude and Gender Factor as Determinant of Pupils’ performance in Primary Science

Afolabi, Folashade

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“…These may be due to the fact that they are the key to students' success because they play an important role in imparting the knowledge and equipping the students to be useful to themselves and the society. This is in agreement with the findings of Afolabi (2007) who examine the influence of the science teachers' attitude and gender factor as determinant of pupils' performance in primary science and found out that the attitude of science teachers have greater effect on the students' academic performance.…”

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Biology Teachers’ Impact on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

Omosholape,

Omotayo,

Ojo

2023

JPE

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This study examined the Biology teachers’ impact on the performance of students in secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria. This study sample included forty-eight (48) Secondary Schools selected by random sampling technique. The researcher designed teachers’ questionnaire which were administered to one hundred forty-five (145) Biology teachers. Researcher-designed validated questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents on the impact of biology teachers to the performance of students. Three research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated. Frequency counts and t-test statistics were used to analysis the data collected. Finding of this study revealed that Biology teachers’ impact to teaching in Secondary Schools was significant based on gender but it was not significant based on years of teaching experience. Based on the research findings recommendations were made on how the Biology teachers will have positive impact on students’ performance in senior secondary schools among others.

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Biology Teachers’ Impact on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

Omosholape,

Omotayo,

Ojo

2023

JPE

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“…The null hypothesis 2 (Ho2), which states that there is no significant differences in the impact of years of teaching experience of biology teachers' on students' performance in the senior secondary school in Osun State, is not rejected. This is in agreement with the findings of Afolabi (2007) who examined the influence of the science teachers' attitude and gender factor as determinant of pupils' performance in primary science and found out that the attitude of science teachers have greater effect on the students' academic performance. It was established in this study that there was a significant difference in the impact of biology teachers on students' performance based on their gender.…”

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confidence: 92%

Impact of Biology Teachers on the students’ performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

2018

European J Hlth Biol

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This study examined the impact of biology teachers on the performance of students in secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria. This study sample included forty-eight (48) secondary schools, selected by random sampling technique. The researcher designed teachers' questionnaire which were administered to one hundred forty-five (145) biology teachers. Researcher-designed validated questionnaire was used to elicit information from the respondents on the impact of biology teachers to the performance of students. Three research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated. Frequency counts and ttest statistics were used to analysis the data collected. Findings of this study revealed that the impact of biology teachers to teaching in Secondary Schools was significant. It was also revealed that there was a significant existence based on the gender, but it was revealed that the impact of biology teachers on students' performance in secondary schools was not significant based on years of teaching experience. Based on the research findings, recommendations were made on how the biology teachers would have a positive impact on students' performance in senior secondary schools.

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“…Teachers are regarded as the basic tools in education and curriculum implementations. The quality of any nations' education is determined by the qualities of the teachers and their attitude to the profession (Afolabi, 2007). Richard and Gema (2009) found out that teacher's quality is a key element of students' academic success, but few specific teacher characteristics influence classroom outcomes.…”

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Perceptions of Science Teachers Towards Teaching in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abidoye

2018

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The objective of this study was to determine the perception of science teachers towards science teaching in senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study determined the perception of science teachers towards science teaching on the basis of their gender and years of teaching experience. It was a survey research in which simple random sampling technique was used to select 275 science teachers from secondary schools in Lagos state, Nigeria. Two hundred and eight five Science teachers were sampled from senior secondary schools, of the 285 questionnaires distributed, 275 were retrieved. The data collected were analyzed using frequency count, percentages and t-test. These were used to answer the research questions and also test the hypotheses. The findings of the study showed that: (i) science teachers generally had positive perception towards science teaching (tcal.= 20.43 at p < 0.05); (ii) there was no significant difference in the perception of science teachers towards science teaching based on their gender (tcal.= 0.39 at p > 0.05); and (iii) there was no significant difference in the perception of science teachers towards science teaching based on their years of teaching experience (tcal.= 1.40 at p > 0.05). The implications are discussed.

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Teachers’ Attitude and Gender Factor as Determinant of Pupils’ performance in Primary Science

Abstract: Teachers are regarded as the basic tools in education and curriculum implementations. The quality of any nation's education is determined by the

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Biology Teachers’ Impact on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

Biology Teachers’ Impact on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

Impact of Biology Teachers on the students’ performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

Perceptions of Science Teachers Towards Teaching in Lagos State, Nigeria

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