Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

Quality of Yoru?ba? Teachers on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria

Hunpegan Hendeweh Dorcas & Makinde Solomon Olanrewaju

Abstract

This study examined quality of Yoru?ba? teachers on students’ academic
performance in senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study
adopted a descriptive and correlational design. The population of the study
comprised a larger population through the use of questionnaire and records of
Yoru?ba? teachers in senior secondary schools in Lagos State. Two research
questions were raised and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of
significance. A sample of 108 respondents was drawn through purposive
sampling techniques. Two research instruments titled Yoru?ba? Teacher’s
Quality Questionnaire (YTQQ) and Records Observation Format (ROF) were
used for data collection. Content validity of the instruments was ensured by
test experts and the reliability consistency of the instruments was 0.77 using
test-retest methods. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to
analyse data collected via Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)
version 23.0. The findings of hypotheses 1, and 2 showed that: a significant
relationship existed between Yoru?ba? teachers’ qualifications and students’
academic performance in senior secondary schools in Education Districts of
Lagos State, Nigeria. (r =0.625; N=108; p<0.05); and a positive significant
relationship existed between Yoru?ba? teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and
students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools in Lagos State,
Nigeria (r =0.665; N=108; p<0.05). Based on the findings, the study concluded
that Yoru?ba? teachers’ qualification and pedagogical knowledge have positive
impact on students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools in
Lagos State, Nigeria. Therefore, it is recommended amongst others that
government should employ additional Yoru?ba? teachers with quality teaching
in order to promote cultural heritage of Yoru?ba? tradition.

Keywords

Education, Teachers, Quality, Students and Academic Performance

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