IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH (JPSLR )

E-ISSN 2504-883X
P-ISSN 2695 2432
VOL. 11 NO. 4 2025
DOI: 10.56201/jpslr.vol.11.no4.2025.pg110.120

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Relationship Between Teachers’ Attitude and Students’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State

Dr Diepreye Okodoko, Isaac Micah Owobete

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Abstract

The research studied Bayelsa State public secondary school instructors' attitudes and students' academic achievement. The study used correlational survey research. For the 2021/2022 academic year, 18,140 pupils from 88 public secondary schools in three Bayelsa State Local Government Areas were studied. Bayelsa State's Ogbia, Sagbama, and Yenagoa LGAs get 1680, 5211, and 11249. In the 2021/2022 academic year, proportional stratified random selection was used to pick 880 students (4.85% of the total population) from public secondary schools in the three designated Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Ten questions were utilised to gather data from the Relationship between Teachers' Attitude and Students' Academic Performance Questionnaire (RTASAPQ). The research supervisor and two measurement and evaluation specialists from the department of educational foundations, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, validated the instrument. The reliability coefficients of the instrument internal consistencies were calculated using Cronbach's Alpha. Teachers' attitude and students' academic achievement had reliability coefficients of.800 and.760. Simple percentage analysis, model summary of simple regression analysis, and PPMC analysis were used to analyse demographic data, research question, and hypothesis in SPSS version 26. The research found that secondary school pupils' academic performance is affected by instructors' attitudes. According to the conclusion, students should not dismiss their professors' attitudes since it might affect their academic achievement.

keywords:

Relationship, Teachers’ Attitude, Students’ Academic Performance

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