Principal Perception of Causes and Implication of Laxity and Indolence Among Science Teachers on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to find out principals perception of causes and implications of laxity and indolence among science teachers in the academic of secondary school students in Enugu Educational zone.
The specific objectives of the study are to find out the level to which these factors affect teaching and learning.
- Lack of knowledge of the contents of the subject matters of science subjects and lack of proper supervision and inspection leads to laxity and indolence.
- Lack of motivation, poor attitude of science facilities and equipments lead science to laxity and indolence.
- The laxity and indolence of science teachers make students to have poor and limited knowledge of science subjects.
- The laxity and indolence of the science teachers lead to poor academic performance of the students and their lack of interest on the subjects.
- The bad examples on the attitude to work set by laxity and indolence of science teachers make students to be playing truancy to their class attendance and school in general.
- The laxity and indolence of science teachers lead to their non-coverage of the scheme of works and to find solutions among science teachers and poor academic performance of the students.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
CAUSES OF INDISCIPLINE
The unprofessional and destructive behaviour of teacher are as a result of the following:
POOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
A well equipped professional teachers attitude cannot be contrary to school development. Some of the teachers since 1976 are the products of crash programmes for production of teachers for the primary schools. Their entry qualification was lower than other professional training programmes. Also the nature of the crash programme did not give enough time for teaching and learning. These teachers subject matter are a little if not below that of some brilliant students. Such teachers always give excuses for everything to avoid teaching their lesson periods and other extra-curricular activities. Some of sure teachers were involves in other occupations and such treat their teaching job as part time.
POOR CONDITION OF SERVICE: Before 1999, the only difference between a local farmer and a teacher was a merge monthly salary which was not regularly paid. Allowances paid to other workers was not paid to teachers. As a result, teachers complete with farmers in the farms, traders in the market and contractors in companies. This source of extra incomes by teachers which are acts of indiscipline resulted from poor condition of service and irregular payment of salaries.
TEACHER RELATIONSHIP WITH SCHOOLHEAD AND SOCIAL STATUS: Majority, especially female teachers who are wives of politicians intimidate schoolheads with their husband positions. Some have personal relationship or affairs with schoolheads. Such teachers are not regular in school and in lessons. They use school period for their personal business and political affairs at the detriment of the students. Most of them do not take active part in extra-curricular activities of the school and are not instructionally effect Majority, especially female teachers who are wives of politicians intimidate schoolheads with their husband positions. Some have personal relationship or affairs with schoolheads. Such teachers are not regular in school and in lessons. They use school period for their personal business and political affairs at the detriment of the students. Most of them do not take active part in extra-curricular activities of the school and are not instructionally effective and efficient. ive and efficient.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought examine the principal perception of causes and implication of laxity and indolence among science teachers on academic performance of secondary school students.
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
- Primary source and
- Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information to examine the principal perception of causes and implication of laxity and indolence of secondary school students. One hundred and eighty students (180) and twenty (20) Teachers of Queens and Kings Secondary School Enugu were randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
DATA ANALYSIS
The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding.
A total of 133(one hundred and thirty three) questionnaires were distributed and 133 questionnaires were returned.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain principal perception of causes and implication of laxity and indolence among science teachers on academic performance of secondary school students
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of principal perception of causes and implication of laxity and indolence among science teachers on academic performance of secondary school students
Summary
This study was on principal perception of causes and implication of laxity and indolence among science teachers on academic performance of secondary school students. Three objectives were raised which included: Lack of knowledge of the contents of the subject matters of science subjects and lack of proper supervision and inspection leads to laxity and indolence, Lack of motivation, poor attitude of science facilities and equipments lead science to laxity and indolence, the laxity and indolence of science teachers make students to have poor and limited knowledge of science subjects, the laxity and indolence of the science teachers lead to poor academic performance of the students and their lack of interest on the subjects, the bad examples on the attitude to work set by laxity and indolence of science teachers make students to be playing truancy to their class attendance and school in general, the laxity and indolence of science teachers lead to their non-coverage of the scheme of works and to find solutions among science teachers and poor academic performance of the students. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 180 students and 20 staffs of Queens and Kings Secondary School Enugu. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made male students, female students, male staffs and female staffs was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
Overall, this study found that teacher misbehaviors are negatively correlated with student interest and student engagement, but it appears that student interest is mediating the relationship between teacher misbehaviors and student engagement. This study also suggests that teacher offensiveness does not impact student interest as much as incompetence or indolence. This study was conducted before Goodboy and Myers (2015) published a revised instructor misbehaviors measure, and these data corroborate the need to revisit that measure
Recommendation
The study hereby recommend that there should be an orientation to teachers on how to handle their student and also oriented them on the concept of laxity and indolence and the implication of it.
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