TEACHER MOTIVATION AND SCIENCE STUDENT” ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ILORIN METROPOLIS SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KWARA STATE

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the teacher's motivation and students' academic performance in science subjects in secondary schools. The population for the study comprised 157 secondary schools and all science teachers and students in Ilorin metropolis public secondary schools.200 teachers were randomly selected for the study Hence a structural questionnaire which contained about Twenty (20) questions relating to influence of motivation on the academic performance of science students was prepared and administered to 180of the 3 senatorial districts of Kwara state. The statistical tool used to analyse the data of 180 copies of the returned questionnaire was descriptive statistics using table and percentage (%). In addition to confirm the validity of the responses of the respondents, chi-square method was also employed to test six of the questions on the questionnaire distributed to the respondents. As a result, the response of the finding showed that: motivation of science teacher can translate into an improved academic performance of science students in secondary schools, prompt payment of salaries, provision science instructional materials, payment of funds benefits and conducive working environment all were discovered to enhance the teacher job performance and this improve student academic performance of science student in Ilorin metropolis secondary schools. It was concluded from this study that teacher motivation is a sin - squad-non to an improved academic performance. Hence, the paper recommend that school authorities ,ministries of education and all other stakeholders in education, parents, teachers, ministries of education and all other stakeholders in education should play their parts in ensuring that adequate educational media or science teacher instructional materials as well other equipped necessary facilities are provided in all science secondary school in other to encourage and motivate science teacher in other to improve in academic performance of students .