ABSTRACT

The study investigated teachers’ job description and condition of service as determinants of academic indicator of students in public secondary schools in South East, Nigeria. The area of the study is South East, Nigeria. Correlational research design was used for the study. Six (6) research questions and six hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised 4993 teachers from public secondary school South East, Zone. A sample size of 250 respondents comprising 65 male and 185 female Teachers in secondary schools in South East were drawn through the use of multi-stage sampling technique from a target population of 4,993. A 4-point rating scale questionnaire was developed with face and content validity ascertained by three experts from, Educational Administration and Planning and Measurement and Evaluation in the College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. Reliability coefficients of 0.69 and 0.71 for the two instruments were obtained through Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC) method. The 250 copies of questionnaires were administered with the help of four Research Assistants. Research questions were answered using PPMC while the null hypotheses were tested using Linear Regression at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the findings revealed thatprompt payment of teachers’ salaries topositive high extent determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools, that teachers’ promotion to a moderate extents determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools, thatfringe benefits to a low extents determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools, that counselling duties of teachers to a high extents determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools and that administrative duties of teachers to a low extent determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools. Teaching duties of teachers significantly determined students’ academic indicators in secondary schools.  Based on the findings, it was recommended that secondary school students should understand that teachers’ state of salary and promotion determined their academic indicators so as to accommodate their negative attitude sometimes since a hungry man is an angry man, students should study harder to accommodate teachers’ inabilities to cover their termly scheme of work for excellent academic indicators, teachers should engage in small scale enterprises that would not interfere with the primary profession so as to supplement their salary when not paid promptly to help improve and stabilize students’ academic indicators in schools, teachers should integrate counselling into their daily instruction to enhance students’ academic indicators, school principals should provide teachers with fringe benefits no matter how little in order to increase teachers’ productivity for higher academic indicators among students and among others. The ministry of education should always design development programmes for teachers’ job indicators. There should be formal policy guidelines for training of teachers. The government should understand the relationship between improved conditions of services and students’ academic indicators.