Influence of Teaching Methods on Teacher Job Performance in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of teaching methods on 
teacher job performance in Oyo State, Nigeria. Teaching methods 
examined include: teacher based, student based, interactive and 
problem solving. The study was a descriptive survey research which 
was questionnaire based. The population of the study was all the 
public secondary school teachers in Oyo State, Nigeria. The 
research instrument used for data collection was Teacher Job 
Performance (TJP), with a reliability value = 0.83. Hypotheses 
were tested at 5% level of significance. Data collected for the 
study were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Multiple Regression 
Analysis and t-test for research questions and hypotheses. The 
study revealed amongst others that the level of teacher job 
performance was high with the overall weighted average of 2.702. 
Also, there existed a significant combined influence of teaching 
methods on teacher job performance in Oyo State. The study 
concluded that teachers in Oyo State adopted more of teacher 
based method, interactive method, problem solving method and 
less of student based method. On the basis of the findings of the 
study, it is recommended that the government through secondary 
school management board should device a framework for 
checkmating and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching methods 
engaged by teachers.