Teachers’ Pedagogical Skills, Job Commitment and Students’ Learning Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Iwo Local Government, Osun State

Abstract

This study focused on teachers’ pedagogical skills, job commitment and learning effectiveness in public secondary schools in Iwo Local Government, Osun State. It used descriptive research design of correlational type. Four thousand, eight hundred and twenty-five SSS III students in the area formed the study population. All the 17 public secondary schools therein were selected purposively, while 356 SSS III students were selected proportionately. Data collection was done via the use of Pedagogical Skills Questionnaire (TPSQ), Job Commitment Questionnaire (JCQ) Students’ Learning Effectiveness Questionnaire (SLEQ). The researchers ensured validity of the instruments. The reliability test conducted on the instruments yielded 0.83, 0.79, and 0.81 for TPSQ, JCQ and LEQ had respectively. Pearson product-moment correlation was used to test hypothesis one and two, while multiple regression was utilised for testing hypothesis three. The study found among others that there was a significant relationship between teachers’ pedagogical skills, job commitment and students’ learning effectiveness (f-value: 534.117, p-value: 0.011; beta weights: .514, .044). It was concluded that teachers’ pedagogical skills play an important role in enhancing learning effectiveness while job commitment is an important instrument which teachers need to be able to actualise learning effectiveness on the part of students. The study recommended that Osun State government should ensure that adequate and periodic capacity building programmes via workshop, symposium, conference, seminar, and lecture are organized for teachers, to continuously equip and update their pedagogical skills needed to process teaching in way that could enhance learning effectiveness.