TEACHER’S JOB EFFECTIVENESS AS CORRELATES OF STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IKOM EDUCATIONAL ZONE OF CROSS RIVER STATE

The paper examined teachers’ job effectiveness as correlates of students’ academic performance in Economics in Ikom Educational Zone Of Cross River State, Nigeria. The study was guided by four research questions and four hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 3620 SS 3 students in selected secondary school in Ikom Educational Zone of Cross River State and the sample was 382 respondents, representing 11% of the population. Taro Yamane formula was used to determine sample size, while multistage sampling procedure was used to select the sample. A structured questionnaire and an academic achievement test were used for data collection and were validated by 3 experts. Cronbach Alpha and Kudder Richardson formula 20 were used to ascertain the reliability of the questionnaire and the academic achievement test. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.946 while that of the academic achievement test was 0.611. Instruments for data collection were administered on the respondents in their various schools. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Pearson Product Correlation Coefficient was used to test the null hypotheses. The study revealed that there was a significant relationship between teachers’ classroom management, teachers’ classroom instructional delivery, teachers’ classroom assessment, teachers’ use of classroom technology and students’ academic performance in English Language in Secondary Schools in Ikom Education zone and accounted for students’ poor academic performance in English Language. The study recommended among others that government, administrators, principals and teachers should ensure teachers improve their effectiveness through appropriate monitoring, supervision and encouragement.