TEACHERS TASK PERFORMANCE AND STUDENTS ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined teachers' task performance as correlate of student academic engagement in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State. Four research questions guided the study and four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlation research design. The population for the study consisted of 19,042 SS II students in the 2024/2025 session from the 267 public secondary schools in Anambra State. The sample size for the study was 552 respondents which drawn from the population of 19,042 SS II students in the 2023/2024 academic session. The study adopted stratified and simple random sampling techniques.  The instruments for data collection were two structured questionnaires by the researcher, titled “ Teachers’ Task Performance Questionnaire (TTPQ) and “Students’ Academic Engagement Questionnaire (SAEQ).  These instruments were subjected to face validity by three experts, two from Educational Management and one from Educational Measurement and Evaluation, all from Faculty of Education, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus, Anambra State. The construct validity of the instruments was also established. Cronbach Alpha method was used to determine the reliabilities of the instruments. The reliability yielded coefficients of 0.82 for extra-curricular activities, 0.82 for communication skill, 0.81 for classroom management, and 0.80 for instructional delivery. The average reliability coefficient showed a value of 0.82 for teachers’ task performance questionnaire and 0.86 for Students’ Academic Engagement Questionnaire (SAEQ) which was considered highly reliable and adequate for the study. Five hundred and fifty-two (552) copies of questionnaires were administered by the researcher with six briefed research-assistants by direct administration and collected on the spot. The research questions were answered using Pearson product moment Correlation Coefficient while the hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance using test of significance of Pearson product moment Correlation Coefficient.