Abstract:
The study investigated the influence of teachers' qualification on pupils' academic achievement in numeracy. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, the population comprised all primary school teachers, 310 teachers was used as sample size, The questionnaire tagged Teachers' Qualification Questionnaire (TQQ) and pro forma achievement test was used to obtain the scores from schools. One research question and three hypotheses were guided the study. The instruments were face and content validated by experts and PPMC was determined which was (r=.78). descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage and mean for research question while research hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics of Linear Regression and t-test. The outcome revealed that there was significant influence of teachers' qualification on academic achievement in Numeracy. It was shown that, the influence of teachers' qualification on academic achievement in Numeracy. Recommendations made among was, governments and schools administrators should make more provision to study leave for in service teachers.
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