Effect of indiscipline and teachers’ attitudes on students’ academic performance in selected public secondary schools in Niger state

Abstract

This research examined the effect of indiscipline and teachers’ attitudes on students’ academic performance in public secondary school Niger state. The researcher adopted survey research design for this study. The population of the study stood at 6,687 comprising of administrators (220), parents (560), teachers (320) and students (2,170) with the following samples 22, 56, 32 and 217 respectively. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the research. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used as the method for statistical analysis. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significant, where all the four hypotheses were rejected. The academic performance of student was negatively affected by teacher’s lateness to work, bad character exemplary, poor dressing, and nonchalant attitude to work and disrespect to school head. It was recommended that curriculum review is highly needed in the area of moral values, teachers found guilty of immoral acts should be punish to serve as a deterrent to others, there should be discipline in school without fear or favour, training and re-training of teachers should be practice to enhanced competence, and teachers with outstanding performance should be rewarded accordingly.