IMPACT OF TEACHERS’ MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES ON PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of staff motivation on
academic performance of secondary school students in Osun
State. Two research questions and two research hypotheses were
generated for the study. Sample of twenty (20) principals and two
hundred (200) secondary school teachers was the respondents
used. Structured questionnaire which has two (2) sections was
duly validated and reliability value was 0.75. Same data
collected through the research Instruments were analysed using
frequency counts, descriptive statistics and T-test statisticss. It
was revealed that, there is influence of staff motivation on
academic performance of secondary school students in Osun
state: Teachers’ rated all the motivational strategies used by the
principals as good, they rated all the indices of staff
performance as good, there was a significant difference in the
motivational strategies used by the principals in secondary
schools based on school types, there was a significant difference
in the indices that aid staff performance in secondary schools
based on school types. Major recommendations were
enumerated as: Principal should recognize work done well by
teachers to boost their ego to enhance their work performance;
teachers should be highly praised and commended for maximum
performance; ministry of education should make it a policy to
provide all public secondary schools in the study area with
necessary facilities to facilitate effective teaching and learning
in schools; research should also be done on the head teachers'
motivation of students, non-teaching and subordinate staff.