Lecturers’ Competences in Relation to
Students’ Academic Performance
Summary:
A.Akiri (2013) conducted a research on investigate the
effects of teachers’ effectiveness on students’ academic performance in public
secondary schools and also, to find out the effects of teachers’ qualification
and experience on students’ academic performance. It was conducted by studying
classroom effectiveness. The sample was, targeted at all teachers and students
in government owned secondary schools in Delta State of Nigeria. Samples of
three hundred and fifty (350) teachers in public secondary schools of the State
were used for the study. There were a few issues addressed such as relationship
between teachers’ effectiveness and students’ academic performance, difference in
the academic performance of students taught by highly qualified, moderately
qualified and less qualified teachers and difference in the academic
performance of students taught by experienced and inexperienced teachers. The
method used was a descriptive survey that employed an ex-post-facto design that
involved the determination and description of the influence of teachers’
effectiveness on students’ academic achievement. It investigated the facts as they
involve how teachers qualifications and experience affect the training that
involve teachers’ effectiveness on students’ academic performance in schools.
There are significant finding, it is found that interaction with students is a common
variable, showing a strong significant factor influencing for both student’s
satisfaction and performance. Competencies such as knowledge on subject,
clarity of presentation, interaction with students, teaching creativity,
clarifying learning outcome, class activity and lecture notes are significantly
relates to student satisfaction positively. The findings show that lecturer’s
knowledge of subject contributes most to students’ satisfaction.
Adediwura and Bada Tayo(2007) conducted a research on the
relationship/effect of students’ perception of teachers’ knowledge of subject matter,
attitude to work and teaching skills on students’ academic performance. It was
conducted by studying the relationship/effect of students’ perception of
teachers’ knowledge of subject matter, attitude to work and teaching skills.
The sample were consisted of 1600 purposively selected SSS III students from 15
selected secondary schools. There were a
few issues addressed, such as students’ perception of teachers’ knowledge of
subject matter and academic performance, students’ perception of the teachers’ attitude to ion the
classroom, and teachers’
teaching skills. The method used to collect date is questionnaire. The study
has demonstrated a significant relationship between students’ perception of
teachers’ knowledge of subject matter and academic performance. More than that,
the study indicated that students’
academic performance respectively correlate positively and depends significantly
on students’ perception of the teachers’ attitude to ion the classroom. The study revealed that students’ academic performance
respectively correlate positively and depends significantly on teachers’
teaching skills. This study has meaningful implications for teachers, school
administrators, Ministries of Education, Teaching Service etc. in the sense
that, it will provide useful hints on the evaluation, promotion and appointment
of teachers, and their teaching output, as perceived by the students who are
the direct recipients of the teachers’ professional competence or incompetence.
Choi Sang Long, Zaiton Ibrahim and Tan
Owee Kowang (2013)
conducted a research on the impact of lecturers’ competencies on students’
satisfaction in a private college in Malaysia. It was conducted by studying student
satisfaction. The sample are private college has been selected in the state of
Johor, the southern state in West Malaysia. The population of this study
consisted of all the students and total of 260 students are chosen as sample in
this case study. There issues addressed are to identify the relationship
between all fourteen independent variables are
combined together to test the possible relationship lecturer’s competencies and
student’s satisfaction.(knowledge on subject, clarity of presentation, punctuality
,interaction with students, teaching creativity, course objective, learning
outcome, assignments class, presentation examination ,class activity, lecturer
note, evaluation, class preparation) The method was quantitative data analysis
to analyse the survey questionnaires. Using statistical methods, the results of
quantitative analysis can confirm or refute hypotheses about the impact of
characteristics of variables that contribute to the student’s performance and
satisfaction level. All data obtained from the questionnaires will be processed
by using Statistical Package for Social Science Version 17.0 (SPSS Ver. 17.0). In
this research, inferential approach is applied where the survey questionnaires
are conducted for the Diploma students to explore impact or relationships
between lecturer’s competencies to students’ satisfaction. The finding, interaction with students is a common
variable, showing a strong significant factor influencing for both student’s
satisfaction and performance.
Olaleye (2011) conducted a research on the perceptions
of students on teacher’s characteristics in relation to students’ academic
performance. It was conducted by studying the perceptions of students on teacher’s
characteristics. The study was carried out in Osun State Senior Secondary
Schools. A population of 1600 purposively selected SSS III students from 16
rural and urban schools were used for the study. There was a few issues
addressed, do teachers
knowledge of the subject matter in the classroom have influence on students’
academic performance in SSCE in public secondary schools in Osun State?, what
relationships exist between teachers attitude to work and students’ academic
performance in Osun State secondary schools? And what effect has teachers
teaching skill have an academic performance of students. The method used is a
descriptive research of the survey type. It is descriptive in the sense that,
it is a form of planned collection of data from a large population for the
purpose of analyzing the relationships between variables. There was several finding, they showed that there is significant relationship between students
perception of teachers knowledge of subject matter and academic performances.
Secondly, indicated students’
academic performance correlate positively and significantly to teachers’
attitude to work in the classroom. Thirdly, it was further revealed in the
study that students’ academic performance correlate positively and depends
significantly on teacher teaching skills. Based on the previous research findings and the finding of this
study on students’ perception of teachers on knowledge of subject matter,
attitude and teaching skills on academic performance, the study shows a
significant relationship. From the study, it can be concluded that employing unqualified
teachers in the school system can affect academic performance of student.
