Teachers’ Personal Variables as Predictors of Teachers’ Job Effectiveness in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Edo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined teacher’s personal variables as predictor of teachers’ job effectiveness in public senior secondary schools in Edo State. The design of this study was the ex-post facto design. The population of the study consisted of all the 1846 teachers in the 296 public Senior Secondary Schools in Edo State. The sample of 369 (20%) teachers was drawn for the study, principals and public Senior Secondary Schools in Edo State. The multi-stage simple random sampling technique was employed to sample the population of the study. To determine the internal consistency of the instrument, the Cronbach alpha reliability method was used, the values of each instrument were 0.78 and 0.89. One research question was answered, and four hypotheses was analyzed. A benchmark of 2.50 was used to rate level of job effectiveness of teachers. The entire hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that teacher personal variables (educational qualification, years of teaching experience and teachers’ age) individually and jointly predicted job effectiveness of teachers in Edo State. It is therefore recommended among others that less experienced teachers with less than ten (10) years of teaching experience should be provided with peer-tutoring opportunities to enable them to gain more skills in pedagogy in various classroom management and administrative related matters that would make them more effective in their school jobs.