GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This study was to assess Educational Qualification and School Location as correlates of Job Satisfaction of Music Teachers for better Junior Secondary School Students’ Performance in Music in South-South Nigeria. Descriptive design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in South-South Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of all the music teachers in public post primary schools in the four states in South-South Nigeria. The sampling technique was used in selecting 150 music teachers from Urban and Rural settings in the four states in South-South Nigeria. The main instrument for the study was a questionnaire titled “Educational Qualification and School Location on the Level of Job Satisfaction of Music Teachers and Students’ Performance in Music Questionnaire (EQSLLJSMTSPMQ)”. Reliability of the instrument deals with the extent to which the result accruing from an instrument is stable and consistent. The researcher conducted the administration of the questionnaire to all the 150 music teachers selected for the study. Data gathered in the study through the use of questionnaire (EQSLLJSMTSPMQ), was analyzed with inferential statistics. The study concluded that educational qualification was found to be successful completion of an education program which refers to the achievement of specified learning objectives, typically validated through the assessment of acquired knowledge and skills. Many parents prefer their children to attend schools in urban areas because they believe that student from urban school perform better than the rural school. Student performance has been the level of knowledge shown in the subject compared to the norm and it is generally measured using the grade point average. Job situations have been found to play a major role in determining the overall level of job satisfaction among teacher’s that teaches music. Therefore, job satisfaction has an effective response to specific aspects of a job such as: challenge, interest and level of difficulty in teaching music. One of the recommendations made was that to increase teachers’ job satisfaction it is very important to increase and upgrade them with regular and adequate salary, promotional avenues, service conditions, adequate retirement benefit etc. Good and attractive salary may attract the efficient and talented persons to the Music Teaching Profession.

KEYWORDS:           Educational Qualification, School Location, Job Satisfaction, Music, Teachers, Students’, Performance, South-South and Nigeria