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| Assessing the Relationship among Teachers' Attitudes toward the Teaching Profession, Teaching Effectiveness, and Gender in Ekiti State Secondary Schools, Nigeria
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Oluwayemisi Damilola Akomolafe
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Abstract:
This study assessed the association among teachers' attitudes toward the teaching profession, teaching effectiveness, and gender in Ekiti State secondary schools, Nigeria. The study adopted the survey research type of the quantitative research design. All secondary school teachers in the Nigerian state of Ekiti made up the study's population. The multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted for sample selection. In all, 136 practicing teachers were sampled for the study. A self-report instrument tagged "Teachers' Attitude towards the Profession and Perceived Teaching Effectiveness Questionnaire" was used for data collection. The Cronbach alpha indexes of 0.73 and 0.77 were obtained as the reliability coefficient of the instruments' sub-sections. The data obtained were analysed on SPSS version 23, using both descriptive and inferential statistics at a 5% significance level. Findings revealed that Ekiti State secondary school teachers' attitude towards the teaching profession is positive, and are highly effective in teaching; teachers' gender, teaching effectiveness, and attitude towards the profession are negatively related; teachers' attitude towards the profession has a positive significant relationship with their teaching effectiveness; no significant gender difference in the teaching effectiveness of teachers, and there exists a significant gender difference in teachers' attitude towards the profession, with male teachers having a higher positive attitude. The study recommends that education stakeholders, should continue to organise and sponsor teachers for professional development programmes, and conditions of service for the teaching profession be regularly and positively reviewed.
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