STUDENTS' ASSESSMENT OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA.

This study was designed to assess the attitudes of Nigerian secondary school teachersby their students in terms of the teachers’ attitude to work, teaching and students. The study was a survey, and made use of a questionnaire tagged Students’ Assessment Teachers Inventory (SATI),comprising 20 items, was used to collect data. The respondents were 2193 students which were randomly selected from 90 secondary schools. The SATI elicited information on different aspect of teachers’ attitude to work, teaching and students. The study was guided by two hypotheses. Data collected were analysed using Analysis of Variance, Pearson r, Means and Standard Deviation. The results from ANOVA F2,2190,= 3.00, ?<0.05) shows that there was no significant difference in the attitudes of different subject teachers to the teaching of science, social science and arts. Furthermore, the results showed that there was no significant relationship between teachers attitude to work (r = 0.343, ?<0.01), teaching (r =0.343, ?<0.01) and students (r = 0.343, ?<0.01). The study concluded that teachers’ attitude to work, teaching and students in different subject areas was favourable, however, better performance could be achieved through capacity building and provision of incentives for teachers.