ABSTRACT

The study explored the perceived influence of academic staff work output on students academic performance in public universities in South East, Nigeria. It had the objective of carrying out relative analysis of the academic staff teaching effectiveness, commitment, productivity, the students’ academic performance, level of discipline, moral development of students, examination malpractice among others. Eight research questions and hypotheses respectively were raised to guide the study at 0.05 level of significance. The study employed Descriptive design. The population of the study was the entire academic staff and students in 2015/2016 academic session in the universities in South East which was 4437 in number which includes 1285 academic staff and 3152 students of the chosen universities. A sample size of 1440 was drawn using the Taro Yamen sampling technique. The method of data collection was the structured questionnaire of the Likert type Scale. The items on the questionnaire were developed and validated by three experts. The researcher adopted face validity to ensure that there is no typographical error. The face validity of the instrument was improved based on the supervisors input, correction and suggestion. In content validity, the researcher gave to three expects in the department of Measurement and Evaluation of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia State. The reliability estimate of the instrument was established through Cronbach Alpha reliability method. The reliability of instrument was determined on subscales of the instrument. The reliability index for the entire instrument is 0.81. The statistical tools for the analysis of data collected for this research work included, mean and standard deviation used to answer the research questions and ‘t’ statistic which was used for testing and drawing conclusion on the null hypotheses. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended among others that Government should live up to its billing, by increased funding, increased intellectual work-force and increased university intake.