Teachers' Welfare as Correlate of Pupils' Academic Achievement in Primary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria
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2016
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Department of Educational management, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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Academic achievement in primary schools in Nigeria has been adjudged to be poor across all levels of educational institutions, most especially primary schools. This usually calls for the attention of scholars and researchers. Teachers' welfare is an indispensable factor for consideration while thinking about human resources element which is fundamental to the achievement of school objective. Teachers' welfare (regular payment of salary, prompt promotion, fringe benefit/other incentives package and in-service-training) as independent variable in the study is perceived to determine the level of enhanced pupils' academic achievement in public and private primary schools in Oyo State. The descriptive research design of ex-post facto was adopted in the study. The total population comprised all the 2118 public and 1049 registered private primary schools in the 33 Local Government Areas of Oyo State. Purposive random sampling technique was employed for the selection of sample. A total of 75 teachers and 125 pupils participated in achievement test in Mathematics and English Language in the 25 selected schools (13 public and 12 private primary schools) for the study. A researcher self-designed questionnaire for the teachers tagged, 'Teachers' Welfare Academic Achievement' (TWAPAA) was used to elicit responses on teachers' welfare. Also, pupils' academic achievement Test was conducted on the pupils to know the level of performance in Mathematics and English Language in both public and private schools in Oyo State.
The findings revealed that teachers' welfare has significant influence on pupils' academic achievement in public and private primary schools in Oyo State giving Cognizance to mean and t-test analysis on prompt payment of teachers' salaries; in-service-training; promotion and fringe benefits as correlates of pupils' academic achievement in public primary schools in Oyo State. The paper concluded that teachers ‘welfare while addressing the human resource issue to facilitate learning achievement of pupils in schools is supreme and has to be taken seriously by stakeholders’ schools. It was recommended that concerned stakeholders should take note of teachers' welfare as an indispensable factor to influence pupils' academic achievement. The school administrators including the teachers and others should be given car or buildings loans to serve as motivation for the enhancement of higher productivity in the workplace. This is bound to increase teachers' effrontery to teach the pupils well and hence bring improvement in academic achievement in primary schools among others.
Keywords: Teachers" welfare academic achievement, Primary School
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Egbebi, John Oluyemi, Ojeniyi, Bolajoko Florence & Oluwalola, Felicia K. (2016) Welfare as Correlate of Pupils' Academic Achievement in Primary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. International Journal of Educational Management.Published by Department of Educational, Faculty of Education, University of lorin, Nigeria