The Relationship between Teachers' Attitudes toward their Students and Students’ Achievement at the Secondary School Level

Abstract

This descriptive-correlation study sought to investigate the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward their students and students’ achievement at the secondary school level. The population of the study consisted of 436 male teachers who were teaching in public schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Charsadda District. Through the use of random cluster sampling, 210 teachers made up the sample for the study. Data were gathered for the study using the Teacher Attitude Index (TAI), which was created by Schulte et al. (2005). The B.I.S.E. Peshawar's IX annual examination results from 2017 were used to calculate the students' achievement scores, and the average performance of the teachers in their subject area during the 2017 session was also collected for the purpose. The results of the data analysis indicated a positive relationship between students' academic achievement and teachers' attitudes toward them. Teachers' attitudes toward their students were a strong predictor of students’ achievement. The teachers’ positive attitudes toward students need to be improved by psychological coaching as part of their training in pre-service and in-service teacher training programmes.