Students Perception of Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge and Personality Traits as Correlates of Students’ Achievement Motivation in Biology

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine students’ perception of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and personality traits as correlates of students’ achievement motivation in biology. Three research questions and three corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at p<0.05 level of significance. The researcher adopted a correlational survey research design. The population of the study was 3,053 senior secondary school students in the public secondary schools in Awka Education zone of Anambra state. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to sample 355 senior secondary class two students for the study. Three instruments titled; Students’ perception of Biology teachers’ pedagogical knowledge questionnaire (SPBTPKQ), Students’ perception of Biology teachers’ personality traits questionnaire (SPBTPTQ) and Rating scale on biology students achievement motivation (RSBSAM) were developed by the researcher and used for data collection. Research question one and two were answered using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (PPMCC) while research question three was answered using multiple regression analysis. Also, hypotheses 1 & 2 were tested at 0.05 level of significance using linear regression while hypothesis three was tested using multiple regression analysis. Nwana’s interpretation of ‘r’ value was adopted in order to describe the relationship among the variables. Findings reveal that, there were moderate positive relationship (r = 0.457) among students’ perception of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge, biology teachers’ personality traits and students’ achievement motivation in biology.

Keywords: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Attitude, Biology Teachers, Achievement

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-13-06

Publication date:May 31^st 2022