Students’ Perception of Teachers and Parents’ Accountability in Secondary Schools
Keywords:
Students Perception, Teachers, Parents, Parent AccountabilityAbstract
This study investigated students’ perceptions of teachers' and parents' accountability among senior secondary school students in Ibandan, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto survey research design on a sample of three hundred and twenty-three participants. The study was guided by two research questions; what is the students’ perception of teacher accountability? what is the students’ perception of parent accountability? Students’ perception of Teachers’ Accountability Scale (SPTAS) and Students’ Perception of Parents’ Accountability Scale (SPPAS) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics namely; frequency counts, percentages and means, were used for data analysis. The findings revealed that students’ perception of teacher accountability was significantly low, but students’ perception of their parents’ accountability was significantly high. This implies that teachers are not achieving the optimal learning of their students and not taking care of the students' progress according to their capacity while parents are carrying out their responsibilities accordingly. It is recommended that teachers should attend workshops, seminars and in-service training to upgrade their teaching activities. Teachers should encourage students to improve their attainments and develop their personalities. Teachers should make themselves available to students and help them to understand topics that are difficult to learn. Parents should assist their children that have challenges of coping with academics by employing the service of private home tutors. Parents should endeavor to encourage and give their children adequate time to read and do their home works at home rather than engaging them with domestic work and watching of non-educational movies most of the time.
References
Ajogbeje, O. J. (2012). Path-analytic Model and the Effect of some Teaching Strategies on Variables Affecting Achievement in Junior Secondary School Mathematics in Ondo State. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Babafemi, G. T. & Adewumi, A.O. (2019). Effect of Individualised Creative Mapping on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Sustained Knowledge in Biology. Journal of Education Research and Rural Community Development, 1(1), 14-24.
Babatunde, E. O. (1992). 'National Universities Commission and Development of University Education in Nigeria 1974-90: An Evaluative study. A PhD. Thesis proposal' presented to the Department of Educational Management, College of Education, University of lbadan.
Begum, N. N. (2007). Effect of parent involvement on math and reading achievement of young children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Benard M, (2014). Students’ Academic Achievement: Whose Responsibility and Accountability. International Journal of Business and Social Science. 5, 10.
Carnoy, M., Loeb, S., (2002). Does external accountability affect student outcomes? A cross-state analysis. Educ. Eval. Policy Anal. 24 (4), 305–331.
Cotton, K., and Wikelund, K. (2005). Parent involvement in education. Available at: http:/www.nwrel.org/.
Darling-Hammond, L. (2000). Teacher quality and student achievement: A review of state policy evidence. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 8(1). Retrieved January 22, 2004 from http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v8n1/
Dreikurs, R. M., Grunwald, B. B. and Pepper, F. C. (1998). Managing Sanity in the Classroom 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Accelerated Development
Education Week, (2001). Quality counts annual report 2001. Education Week.
Ekundayo, H. T, Omodan, B. I. & Omodan, C. T. (2018). Dynamics of organizational behaviour: A case of principals’ activities and teacher effectiveness in secondary schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies. 6(8): 225-332.
Figlio, D., Kenny, L., (2009). Public sector performance measurement and stakeholder support. Journal of Public Economics. 93 (9–10), 1069–1077.
Gabathuse, R. 2010. Becoming Involved in Your Child’s Education. Mmegi online, February 12, 27(23)
Gannan, M. (2012). For Kids’ Academic Success, Parents May Trump Schools. www.livescience.com/23873-parent-involvement-moreimportantthanschoolhtrr
General Teaching Council for England (GTC), 2009. Accountability in Teaching – Key messages from two research studies.
Kaniker, 2016). Teachers’ Accountability: Key To Quality Education. International Journal of advance Research in Education Technology, 3 (1), 53-44.
Kindred, L. W., Bagin, D. and Gallagher, D. R. (1984). The School and Community Relations 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prantice Hall
Ladd, H., (2001). School-based educational accountability systems: The promise and the pitfalls. Natl. Tax J. 54 (2), 385–400.
Mastop, R. (2010). “Characterising Responsibility in Organisational Structures: The Problem of Many hands” in Deontic Logic in Computer Science, eds. G. Governatori and G. Sartor (Berlin Springer-Verlag, 2010). Pp. 274- 287
Moswela. B. (2010). Instructional Supervision in Botswana Secondary Schools. Educational Administration & Leadership, 38(1), 71-87.
Nicol D.J and Macfarlane?Dick D. (2006). Formative Assessment and Self?Regulated Learning: a Model and Seven Principles of Good Feedback Practice. Studies in Higher Education, 31:2, 199-218, DOI: 10.1080/03075070600572090
OECD (2005., Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers, OECD, Paris.
Omodan, T. C. & Tsotetsi, C. T. (2019). Framing Ubuntu Philosophy to Reconstruct Principals’ Behaviour and Teachers’ effectiveness in Secondary Schools. Journal of Education Research and Rural Community Development, 1(1), 25-45.
Sergiovanni, T. and Starratt, R. (2002). Supervision: A Redefinition 7th ed. New York: McGrawHill
Sheldon, S. B., and Epstein, J. L. (2001). Improving student behavior and discipline with family and community involvement. Retrieved July 5, 2002, from Johns Hopkins University, National Network of Partnership Schools Web site: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/type2/issue12/ttype215.htm
Smith, R. (2002). The Primary School Head Teacher’s Handbook. London: Routledge
Stronge, J. H. (2002). Qualities of effective teachers. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Topping, K. J. (1986). Parents as Educators: Training Parents to Teach their Children. London: Groom Helm
Wideen, M. and Grimmett, P. (1995). Changing Times in Teacher Education, Restructuring and Conceptualization. London: Falmer Press.
Urnoru-Onuka, A. (2006). Evaluation as a Feedback and Accountability Mechanism: The Theory and a Trial. Institute of Education University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2019 Olanike Olusola Odekunle, Oluwakemi Omowumi Amusa, Olusola Bolarinwa Adeniyi
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
