Abstract
The poor performance of students in Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in recent time, particularly in Southwest Nigeria, appears to be discouraging. This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of teachers’ morale on secondary school students’ academic performance in South West, Nigeria. A questionnaire and a proforma were used for data collection. Public Secondary School teachers and students in South-West Nigeria formed the population for the study. The sample for the study comprised 375 teachers and 9375 students. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was used to choose the sample. Findings showed that teachers’ morale made significant contribution to the prediction of students’ academic performance. It accounted for 58.9% of the total variance in students’ academic performance. In the same vein, all the indices of teachers’ morale individually made significant contribution to the prediction of students’ academic performance, with teachers’ salary as the best predictor. Teachers’ salary alone accounted for 47.4% of the total variance in students’ academic performance, while teachers’ workload was the least predictor with 3.8% contribution of the variance. There is a significant relationship between teachers’ morale and students’ academic performance (r=0.49, p<0.05). While the paper concluded that students’ performance is influenced by teachers’ morale, it therefore recommended that policies that will enhance teachers’ morale such as improved teachers’ allowance should be put in place.
Highlights
Education is the most potent instrument of change in the intellectual and social outlook of any society
Teachers are important instruments in teaching and learning, they are the pivot on which the educational process hang and teachers play a major role in the whims and caprices of the educational system, they can influence the teaching-learning outcome either positively or negatively because they determine the quality of instructional delivery and influence quality education when it comes to implementation of the curriculum and educational policies
The level of teachers morale in secondary schools in South West Nigeria is reveal in Table 1, of which Lagos State had the highest percentage of 63% academic performance followed by Ondo State with 60.8% academic performance
Summary
Education is the most potent instrument of change in the intellectual and social outlook of any society. Teachers are important instruments in teaching and learning, they are the pivot on which the educational process hang and teachers play a major role in the whims and caprices of the educational system, they can influence the teaching-learning outcome either positively or negatively because they determine the quality of instructional delivery and influence quality education when it comes to implementation of the curriculum and educational policies. They are to be considered when addressing issues such as quality assurance, quality delivery (teaching), quality context and quality learning outcome (Onacha, 2002). For teachers to be effective and functional in this regard, they must have high morale
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