(1762) AN EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUSIC TEACHERS' COMPETENCE ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIAN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the level of music competence and teaching skills of SouthWest Nigerian junior secondary school music teachers as it affects student's music academicachievement. Descriptive survey and posttest- only control- group quasi experimental design wereadopted for the study. Five research hypotheses were postulated and tested at 0.05 level ofsignificance. Six instruments were also used to generate data. The instruments included closed-endedquestionnaires and competency tests for twelve teachers and achievement tests for one hundred andtwenty Junior Secondary School pupils. Analyses were performed using descriptive statistics andPearson's product moment coefficient of correlation. Out of the five hypotheses postulated two wereaccepted and three was rejected. The findings revealed that there is no significant effect of musicteachers' cognitive, competencies on students' academic achievement in music in Junior SecondarySchools but student's background knowledge in music is a strong predictor of student's academicachievement in music and is the most influential in predicting academic achievement in Music. In thelight of the findings it was recommended that there is need for a regular periodic professional musicteacher's development initiative. This should involve training that are specific to the music disciplinethat is within the content of junior secondary school and general one that will involve generalpedagogic issues, curriculum issues and personality training.