Role Perceptions And Role Expectations Of Selected Secondary School Teachers In Ondo State Of Nigeria

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ABSTRACT

This study was designed to investigate the teacher's role perception and the expectation of this role by the teacher and his reference groups in selected secondary schools in Ondo State. A Questionnaire called STRES probed respondents' expectations regarding instructional, social/civic, guidance/counselling, management and personality roles of the teacher. It was hypothesised that there would be no significant differences in teachers' role perceptions and the expectations of such roles by their role sets.

The test-retest validity and reliability of the instrument statistically computed yielded co-efficient of 0.0976. The study involved 1,625 participants comprising 586 teachers, forty principals, 800 students, 119 educational administrators and eighty parents/guardians- selected randomly from forty secondary schools in Ondo State of Nigeria. The result showed that there was a significant difference in the teachers' perception of their role and the expectation of such role by their reference groups. The teachers differed markedly on many of the items and there was variability and differences amongst the groups on the teachers' role expectation. The findings also revealed.

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