Leadership Styles And Teachers’ Qualification As Correlates Of Students’ Under Achievement In Lagos State Schools.

Abstract

The study examined leadership styles as correlates to students’ academic underachievement in the Lagos State schools. Two hundred (200) students, twenty (20) teachers and four (4) principals were selected for the sample. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data which was subsequently analyzed using the independent t-test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tools to answer the five research questions and test the five hypotheses respectively. The findings revealed that:

There is significant difference between the causes of underachievement and students’ academic underachievement, there is no significant difference between school leadership styles and students’ academic underachievement, there is significant relationship between teachers’ educational qualification and students’ academic underachievement in Lagos State Schools, there is significant relationship between teachers’ method of teaching and students’ academic underachievement and there is significant relationship between the remedies to the causes of underachievement  and Students’ academic underachievement in Lagos State Schools. Based on these findings the following recommendations were made: Teachers should be flexible, and not rigid in the choice of teaching method they used in teaching. Teachers’ should change to suitable method of teaching when teaching and learning is not effective.

Teachers should be able to proffer suitable solutions to the causes of underachievement in school environment.

The three tiers of governments’ i.e Legislature, Judiciary and the Executive should be actively involved in the funding of education. And the school heads’ leadership styles should be effective if is hinged on the following characteristics such as purpose, priorities, roles, decision, conflict and success are considered.

Keywords: - keywords leadership styles, teachers’ qualification underachievement.