INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS VARIABLE ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN JALINGO, TARABA STATE NIGERIA

- The study investigates the influence of teacher‟s variable on student‟s academic achievements in secondary schools in Jalingo Local Government Area of Taraba State. The methodology employed for this study was considered qualitative because it involved both primary and secondary method of data collection and it contains the best statistical tool of analysis as multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted. The study was guided by four research questions and correlation research design was used in the study. The total numbers of questionnaires distributed were 325 in which 300 were retrieved and 25 were void. Based on the presentation, analysis and interpretation of the data, it was found that majority of secondary schools teachers in Jalingo were professionally qualified. But their teaching was not effective. It was therefore recommended that government should encourage experienced teachers to stay on the job by providing them with more incentives and fringe benefits. The promotional prospect of the teachers should also be improved. The State Ministry of Education should make more efforts in the inspection and monitoring of schools to ensure that teachers stay on the jobs. of subject matter affect student‟s academic performance in secondary schools. Other studies have sought to measure teachers‟ knowledge more directly by looking at teachers‟ performance on certification examinations or other tests of subject matter competence. By using findings from such measures, these studies implicitly assumed a relationship between teacher content knowledge as measured by such assessments and the kinds of teaching performances that produced improved student achievement. Studies using this approach typically found a positive effect of teacher knowledge, as measured by certification examinations or tests of subject matter competence, on student achievement. The teacher that has not mastered the subject matter has nothing to teach the learners. The knowledge of the subject and mastering of the contents is very paramount in teaching professions. Any professional teacher in teaching most have the ability to teach his/her subjects to the best of the knowledge. Based on the forgoing presentation the result obtained from table -1.11indicates that 94.7% respondents has the highest response which implies that teachers teaching experience reduces the workload to the remaining of the teaching staff in secondary schools. It‟s always says experience is the greatest teacher when you have an experience teacher, as head teacher or an expert he/she uses the skills, knowledge potentials gain through experience to manipulates ways or divine a means of solving problem without much challenges when it arises. Based on the information obtained from table -1.12 the results show that 96.7% of the respondents have agreed that students performed well in secondary schools. This is also achieved when the schools have qualified and experience teachers to teach student with effective and efficient understanding that enhanced learning in any public schools. Notwithstanding, based on the result from table -1.13 the information indicates that 76.7% of the respondents have strongly agreed that teacher‟s motivation increase student‟s academic performance in secondary schools. Therefore, those that impart the needed knowledge or those that build and mold character must be motivated adequately because motivation is the key