STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS’ MOOD ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The study attempts to determine whether the mood of teachers have any direct bearing on the academic performance of students in class. The study area was Morso D/A J.H.S. A sample size of forty students from form two was used for the study. The affect theory by Tomkins and the behavioral theory by Bandura was adopted as framework for this study. The random sampling technique was employed to select the samples into two groups of students each comprising of twenty, the groups were taught based on negative or positive mood. In this research Two-Group Post-test was used. It aims to make causal relationship between the independent and the dependent variables. That is how mood relates to academic performance of students in class, being it positive or negative mood. The post-test was used, that is the performance of students was measured after being taught a topic on integers under either negative or positive mood. The independent t-test was used to test the hypothesis and the finding of the study indicates that the mood of teachers when negative reflects a poorer performance than positive mood and the difference in performance was statistically significant.