Teacher effectiveness is a critical factor in the teaching and learning process as it facilitate academic achievement and socially desirable behaviors of students. Extant studies have shown that secondary school teachers in the South-West have low teacher effectiveness. Previous studies have focus largely on teacher personality, self-esteem, self-efficacy, work experience, job satisfaction, age and gender with little attention given to causal explanation to TE. This study, therefore was carried out to examine causal explanation of the psycho-demographic factors as determinants of TE in secondary schools in south-west, Nigeria. The survey design was adopted for the study and multi-stage sampling design was used to select the study sample. The simple random sampling technique was used to select four out of the six states in south-west, Nigeria. The proportionate to size sampling technique was use to select thirty-six Local Government Areas in the four state and the simple random sampling was used to select 360 secondary schools. The purposive sampling technique was used to select 1,650 teacher. The instruments used to obtain data for the study were Teacher Job Satisfaction scale(0.72); Neo five factor personality inventory(0.83); teacher self-efficacy(0.73); rosenberg self-esteem(0.76); teacher locus of control(0.82) and teacher effectiveness(0.76) scales. Multiple regression and pearson's product moment correlation was used to estimate the causal linkages among the variables at 0.05 level of significance. The predictor variables (age, EQ, gender and LoC) jointly accounted for 93.5% of the total direct effect whereas (age, EQ, and personality) accounted for 6.5% of total indirect effect on teacher effectiveness.

Authors:
Premobowei Melekeowei, Lagos State University of Education, Nigeria

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Premobowei Melekeowei is a senior lecturer and current Head of Department of Counselling Psychology at the Lagos State University of Education Nigeria. Research interest include promoting teacher/teaching effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools.

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