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TEACHERS’ COMPETENCE, MOTIVATION AS CORRELATES OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ECONOMICS IN IMO STATE
Abstract
The study examined teachers’ competence, motivation as correlates of senior secondary school students’ academic achievement in economics in Imo State. The study adopted a linear correlation design. The population of the study was 94,963 Senior Secondary School Students (SS1-SS3) from 275 public secondary schools in Imo State. A sample of 500 SS2 Economics students was involved in the study. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used. The research instruments for this study are the Teachers’ Competence Scale (TCS), Teachers’ Motivation Scale (TMS), and Economics Achievement Test (EAT). The reliabilities of scales were established using Cronbach alpha, while that of the achievement test was done with Kuder-Richardson (K-R20) statistics, with internal consistency indices of 0.83, 0.86, and 0.78 for TCS, TMS, and EAT, respectively. The data were analyzed using the Pearson “r” statistic for research questions 1 and 2, while multiple linear regression statistics were used for research question 3. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were tested using t-test significance of correlation and One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test hypothesis 3 at 5% level of significance. The result shows that there is a highly significant relationship between teachers’ competence, motivation, and students’ academic achievement in Economics. It was therefore recommended that the government body in charge of recruiting teachers should ensure that competent and motivated teachers are employed in the teaching and learning of Economics.
Keywords: Teachers, competence, motivation, academic achievement and Economics.