Attitude of Teachers and School Variables in Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined some school variables and teachers’ attitude to work for effective teaching. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The respondents were 216 teachers which were randomly selected from 90 secondary schools. An Instrument, Teachers’ Attitude to Teaching Inventory (TATI), comprising 30 items, was used to collect data. The TATI elicited information on different aspects of teaching including presentation, assessment and use of instructional materials. The study was guided by two hypotheses. Data collected were analysed using Analysis of variance Pearson-r, t-test and percentages. The results from ANOVA showed that there was a significant difference in the attitude of different subject teachers to teaching of Science, Art and Social Science to (F_2,214 = 3.0, p<0.05).  Furthermore, the results showed that there was a significant relationship between teachers’ attitude to teaching and age (r = 0.0535, p<0.05), sex (r=0.343, p<0.05), and teaching subjects (r = 0.194, p<0.05). The study concluded that teachers’ attitude to teaching was not favourable and this attitude was influenced largely by age and sex.

Keywords: Teachers’ Attitude, School Variables, Effective Teaching.