Teachers Attributes as Correlates of Students Academic Performance in Geography in the Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria

The study was set to examine teachers attributes as correlates of students academic performance in Geography in the Secondary Schools in Ondo State. Descriptive method was adopted. Questionnaires were administered on Geography teachers and Heads of Departments in order to obtain data about teachers attributes while the performance of their students in Geography was obtain from 2008 SSCE result of the 30 randomly sampled schools. Pearson product moment correlation was used to answer the questions and test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed positive relationship between teachers attributes and students academic performance in Geography. There were significant relationships between teachers attributes measured in term of knowledge of subject matter, communication ability, interest in the job and emotional stability and students academic performance. Although, there was a weak but positive relationship between teachers physical appearance and students academic performance in Geography, this relationship was not found to be significant. Recommendations for the employment of teachers with desirable attributes were made.