Secondary Students’ Perception on the Role of Teachers In Educational System For Achieveing Excellent Result in Aguata LGA of Anambra State, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study which assessed secondary student’s perception on the role of teachers in educational system for achieving excellent result in Aguata LGA of Anambra State, Nigeria was guided by one research question and one hypothesis. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all the secondary schools in Aguata LGA of Anambra State numbering 21. Simple random sampling method was utilized to select forty (40) senior secondary students from each of the schools totalling eight hundred and forty (840) for the study. The instrument for the study was constructed by the authors and titled “Secondary Students’ Perception on the Role of Teachers in Education for Achieving Excellent Result Questionnaire” (SSPRTEAERQ). Validation of the instrument was duly certified while test retest method was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. The result when subjected to Cronbach Alpha method yielded the index of 0.82 thus adjudged reliable for the study. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significant. The findings of this paper revealed that secondary students’ perception of the teachers’ roles in educational system is low thus not adequately carried out resulting to dwindling achievement of excellent result. It is therefore recommended that appropriate agencies and the school principals should as a matter of exigency ensure that teachers are not only educated on their roles while in training but should also be intermittently supervised internally while in service if excellent result must be realized.