ABSTRACT

This study investigated the "Assessment of teachers' conditions of service and influence on regularity to class in public secondary schools in Abia State Nigeria". Jour research questions and three hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. 'l'hc design of the work was a descriptive survey design. Students' t-test statistic was used to test the opinions of the male and female teachers on the assessment of teachers' conditions of service and influence on regularity to class in public Secondary Schools in Abia State. The total population was 3,855 teachers in Abia State public secondary school from which a sample of 1,542 teachers which is 40% of the total population was di'a'n usin strati lied random sampling technique. The instrument titled AS'I'COSARECQ as constructed by the researcher and validated by three experts, each from Educational Administration and Planning, Measurement and Evaluation, and Psychology and Counselling in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. Cronbach Alpha was used to compute the internal consistency reliability co-efficient of the instrument and the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.85. The data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and pooled mean to answer the 4 research questions posed. The findings revealed to a high extent that, prompt payment of teachers salaries, regular promotion, payment of allowances and payment of terminal benefits, in return influence teachers regularity to class in public secondary schools in /\hia state. The recommendation was that payments of secondary school teachers salaries. bonuses, allowances and retirement packages should be improved and should he pak promptly and as at when due and that teachers should be regularly promoted to enhance their regularity to class in public secondary schools in Abia State.