CLASS SIZE, TEACHERS’ PAY AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
If anyone says education is expensive, let him or her try ignorant. The pursuit of education excellence has been one of the major goals of every nations of the world. It has been adjudged as the key with which any nation could permanently close the doors of poverty and ignorance and simultaneously open that of prosperity in terms of economic buoyancy, social environment and civilization.
However, the Nigerian content to the above view is of no difference. Constitutionally, education is a right for all citizens irrespective of social, cultural, economic, political, religional, tribal, mental, or physical status (Ajibade, 1993). That is, education is an instrument for effecting national development. Nigeria’s educational goals have been set out in the national Policy on Education in terms of the individual and the society (FGN, 2004). Towards this end, the National Policy on Education set up certain aims and objectives which are to facilitate educational development in the country. In fostering those aims and objectives, the teachers have important roles to play. The importance of teachers in any educational setting cannot be ignored. Without them, the school cannot exist. The government of Nigeria also recognized the importance of teachers when it says that no education can rise above the quality of its teachers (Wilson & Western, 2001).
As the history will have it, education was not as densely populated as this before, but due to civilization and white-colar-job saga, everybody wants to be educated and this led to development of everyone’s interest in education. In addition to this, Nigerian government through our colonial rulers later start contributing some percentage to some schools and this prompted parents to send their children to schools.
- Statement of the Problem
As a result of free education, the students’ enrolment began to increase tremendously to the extent that the ratio of teacher-students has now gone beyond control and the teachers are the one that translate educational philosophy and objectives into knowledge and skills and transfer them to students in the classroom as a safe, healthy and happy place with supportive resources.
According to the National Education Policy Center Policy Brief; “the policy brief summarizes the academic literature on the impact of class size and finds that class size is an important determinant of a variety of student outcomes, ranging from test scores to broader life outcomes…” Schanzenbach, D. W. (2014).
For all the aforementioned teachers’ functionalities to come to play, those teachers ought to be motivated and paid well so as for them to be effective and efficient towards their job.
To crown it all, when the class is to large and the salary is not encouraging, there is tendency for poor academic performance of the students. White House Report (2012).
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CLASS SIZE, TEACHERS’ PAY AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
