Abstract

INFLUENCE OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS? EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS? INTEREST AND PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Iji, C.O.1 and Amenah , V.O.2

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This study investigated how Mathematics Teachers? Educational qualification Influenced Secondary School Students? Interest and Performance in Mathematics in Niger State, Nigeria. The research was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. It adopted Ex-post facto research design. The target population for this study was all the 42,433 senior secondary three (SS 3) students in the 224 secondary schools in the seven Education Zones in Niger State. Also all the 382 mathematics teachers who taught the SS 3 students when they were in senior secondary school two (SS 2) before they wrote their mock examination were included. The sample for the study was the 420 out of the 42,433 SS 3 students and 110 mathematics teachers drawn from the seven Education Zones in Niger State. Multistage Sampling technique was used for this study. Simple random sampling by balloting was used to select three schools from each of the seven Education Zones, making a total of twenty one schools from the existing 224 secondary schools. Three instruments were used for the study which includes: Mathematics Teacher Qualification Check (MTQC), Students? Interest in Mathematics Questionnaire (SIMQ) and the Proforma for Students? Mock Result. Cronbach Alpha (?) was used to calculate the reliability index SIMQ and was found to be 0.79. Data collected were analyzed using mean, percentage and Chi-Square. The result revealed that students? interest and performance in Mathematics were influenced by Mathematics teachers? educational qualification. Based on the result it was recommended among others that Mathematics teacher should be encouraged to further their studies. Keywords: Mathematics Teachers, Educational Qualification, Students? Interest and Performance.

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