INFLUENCE OF WORKLOAD ON MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ MOTIVATION AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE IN MINNA METROPOLIS. NIGER STATE.

Abstract

The study examined the Influence of Workload on Mathematics Teachers’ Motivation and Senior Secondary School Students’ Performance in Minna metropolis. The study used expofacto research design. The population of the study comprises of 7043 (3277 males and 3723 females) senior secondary two (SS 3) students who sat for the Niger Sate MOCK examination of 2016/2017 academic session and all 43 senior secondary school Mathematics teachers from 23 public secondary schools in Minna metropolis. A multi stage sampling techniques was used. A sample of 596 (321 males and 232 females) students in their intact class and 43 Mathematics teachers was used. One instrument titled “Mathematics Teachers’ Workload Questionnaire (MTWLOQ)” with reliability coefficient of 0.75 was used for the study. Mean, standard deviation were used to answer the research question while Independent t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The study revealed that, there was a significant difference in the performance of students in schools where mathematics teachers have normal workload and in schools where Mathematics teachers have excess workload. Similarly, the study revealed that workload has significant influence on the motivation of Mathematics teachers in teaching. In the light of this, it was recommended among others that Mathematics teachers should be assigned realistic workload to keep them motivated to give their best in teaching.