Influence of Teacher Demand and Supply on Students’ Academic Performance in North-West, Nigeria

Adedeji Israel Olusegun; Okonkwo Onyekachi Ihuoma; Adegbile-Nnaedozie Oluchi; Yakubu Dauda

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Influence of Teacher Demand and Supply on Students’ Academic Performance in North-West, Nigeria

Adedeji Israel Olusegun, Okonkwo Onyekachi Ihuoma, Adegbile-Nnaedozie Oluchi, Yakubu Dauda

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The importance of teachers in developing human capacity needed for nation building cannot be over-emphasized. However, Nigeria, as a nation is experiencing student population explosion while the number of teachers is decreasing especially at the basic level. Therefore, this study investigated influence of teacher demand and supply on students’ academic performance at upper basic schools in North-west, Nigeria. One research question and three hypotheses were raised to guide the study. A descriptive research design of survey type was employed for the study. The population for this study was 6,126 principals in upper basic schools in the North-west, Nigeria whilea sample size of 356 was determined through the Research Advisors (2006) at 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used to select the sample. Two researcher instruments entitled ‘Students Academic Performance Inventory” (SAPI) and a questionnaire titled ‘Teacher Demand, Supply and Students’ Academic Performance, TDSSAPQ’ were validated by five experts and used for this study. The reliability of the questionnaire was done using test-retest method within the interval of four weeks and was analysed through the use of Chronbach Alpha and reliability co-efficient of 0.84 was obtained. Descriptive statistic of Percentage was used to analyse the trend of students’ academic performance while multiple regression was used to analyse the main hypothesis and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to analyse the operational hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that there was effectiveness in the trend of students’ academic performance of upper basic schools in North-west, Nigeria (1,726,934 (93%) passed and 131,960 (7%) failed); also, there was a positive significant inter-relationship among teacher demand, supply and students’ academic performance; positive significant relationship between teacher demand and students’ academic performance (r-value = .014, p-value = 1.014); and teacher supply and students academic performance (r-value = .053, p-value = .041). This study recommended that more teachers are needed and should be employed in UBE schools North-west, Nigeria to teach core subjects like Mathematics, English Language, Introductory Technology and Science Subjects for better improvement of students’ academic performance.

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Demand and Supply, Teacher, Academic Performance, Basic Education

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Adedeji Israel Olusegun

Department of Educational Foundations, Federal College of Education (Technical), Gusau, Nigeria
Okonkwo Onyekachi Ihuoma

Department of Adult and Non-Formal Education, Federal College of Education (Technical), Gusau, Nigeria
Adegbile-Nnaedozie Oluchi

Department of Educational Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, Federal College of Education (Technical), Gusau, Nigeria
Yakubu Dauda

Department of Adult and Non-Formal Education, Federal College of Education (Technical), Gusau, Nigeria

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