Perceived Influence of Supervision of Teachers’ Instruction on Classroom Performance at the Middle Basic Level in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of supervision of teachers’ instruction and classroom performance at the middle basic level in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Two research questions were answered while one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. 852 teachers in the 18 secondary schools in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, (344 males and 508 female) constituted the population of the study. The study adopted stratified sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a researcher’s developed questionnaire titled “Supervision of Teachers Instruction on Classroom Performance Questionnaire” (STICPQ). The instrument was face validated by three experts: two in the Department of Educational Management and one in Measurement and Evaluation unit of Science of Education, all in the College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The instrument was considered reliable when the questionnaire were administered to 30 respondents who were not the actual respondent of the study twice at two weeks interval. The two sets of responses were compared and found to be very much similar. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the three research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that: interaction with instructional materials influenced to a great extent their classroom performance, Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that instructional supervisors should interact well with teachers from time to time for the professional assistance needed by teachers as regards to effective classroom management.