Teacher's Quality: its Relationship to Students Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

By recognizing the link between quality teaching and student achievement, this study looked into the relationship between teacher’s educational attainment and student achievement. The samples in this study were the grade 8 teachers from the 14 secondary schools in the Division of San Pablo City, school year 2017-2018. Grade 8 teachers who have obtained master's and doctorate degree were included regardless of the subject they teach.

METHODS

Data collection process regarding student achievement was obtained from the teacher participants. Records of grades of students for SY 2017 to 2018 were taken from school teacher's rating sheets and examined through two main statistical tests: the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and the multiple regression analysis tests. In order to assume confidentiality and anonymity, teacher participants will be identified using code, educational attainment will also be coded for future data computation and analysis.

RESULTS

As these findings are confirm teachers' involvement in post graduate education can be considered as best practice, in the same way, recognition support and rewards seem to be powerful tools to motivate good teachers and consequently enhance the student's achievement. In effect, such information can be particularly valuable in guiding policies on hiring, whom to reward, to retain the best teachers and how to distribute available teachers

DISCUSSIONS

Teachers' educational attainment has a positive correlation with R value of 0.2975. Results of the study revealed that although technically a positive correlation, the relationship between your variables is weak (the nearer the value is to zero, the weaker the relationship related to the student achievement as revealed by bivariate correlations between teacher quality characteristics such as educational background and the student achievement.

Other variables affecting student achievement between and among teachers' with and without graduate degrees was teachers' length of service, although technically a positive correlation, the relationship between variables is low with the value of R2, the coefficient of determination is 0.1526.