Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

Teachers’ Qualifications as Correlate of Students’ Academic Achievement in Financial Accounting in Oyo State Senior Secondary Schools

Oke Abiodun Adewole

Abstract

The importance of teachers’ qualification on academic achievements of
students in various subjects offered in senior secondary schools in Oyo State
cannot be overstressed. It was against this background that this study focused
on teachers’ qualification as correlate of students’ academic achievement in
Financial Accounting in Oyo State Senior Secondary Schools. The study
employed a survey type of descriptive research and a structured questionnaire
was used to collect the data. The population consisted of all students who took
Financial Accounting in 2020/21 West African School Certificate
Examination in Oyo State and their teachers. The sample for the study
consisted of 100 Senior Secondary Schools Financial Accounting teachers
who were randomly chosen through purposive and stratified techniques across
the state. There were 64 male and 36 female Financial Accounting teachers in
the sample. Four research questions and four hypotheses were raised to guide
the study. The data were analysed using frequency counts and mean while t
test statistics were used to draw the inferences. The results showed that there
is a significant relationship between teachers’ qualification and academic
achievements of students in Financial Accounting in Oyo State Senior
Secondary Schools. It was also revealed that teachers’ gender had no
significant impact on academic achievement of students in Financial
Accounting in Oyo State Senior Secondary Schools. It was recommended that
teachers with academic/professional qualification(s) at higher level should be
made to teach Financial Accounting in the senior secondary schools;
Government should encourage the professionally and academically qualified
teachers especially in Financial Accounting through giving of special
incentives and worthwhile allowances; and Practicing Financial Accounting
teachers who are not professionals should be allowed to undergo in-service
training for effective discharge of their duties.

Keywords

Academic Financial Senior Achievement, Accounting, Secondary Schools,Teachers’ Qualification.

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