CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
Work attitude of lecturers determine to greater extent the academic achievement of students. In computer, The concept of garbage-in-garbage-out can explain better the ills of poor work attitude of lecturers in the achievement of students, Esu (2004). According to Bassey (2008) a lecturer who is not interested to cover the curriculum cannot really impact academically on the lives of the students. Denga (2000) describes that attitude determines what people do, think, act, their likes and dislikes. The students that enjoy teaching and develop interest in education will likely enjoy attending classes so as to receive lectures for better outcome, and a teacher who has the zeal for teaching will develop his time and interest.
Okoje (2001) remarked that as the schools, so as the teachers, as the teachers so are the students. It is true that the school environment influences the production of students and lecturers. The attitude of lecturers in teaching effectively, attendance in class, punctuality in class, as well as delivery of quality information to students contribute to a greater extent the academic achievement of the students. According to Enukoka (2004) lack of interest of teachers and students towards teaching and learning in education. These are responsible to the decay in the system, these attitudes resulted in the absenteeism of lecturers from classes, lateness to lectures, low incentive to work, some lecturers pay more attention to themselves order than delivery of lectures to students as scheduled in the timetable.
Some lecturers lack the callings hence see teaching as the only way out of unemployment. The result is always that of under utilization of potentials as the lack the interest to teach (Fish, 2001). Moreover, some of them lack teaching qualifications hence cannot fit in properly into the academic environment. There is therefore the need to investigate into work attitude of lecturers and students’ performance in education courses.
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