%0 Journal Article
%T Psychological School Climate as Correlate of Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary ‎Schools in Yobe State, Nigeria
%A Ahmed Chiroma Aminu and Waziri Garba El-jajah
%J international journal of philosophy and social-psychological sciences
%@ 2414-5343
%D 2019
%V 5
%N 4
%P 53-63
%X The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological school climate as correlate of teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Yobe State, Nigeria. Three ‎research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. The area of the study was Yobe‎ State. The population of the study was 5,322 participants include principals and teachers. The‎ sample of the study was 359 calculated using Taro Yamane’s method. This study adopted a ‎correlation survey design. Two research instrument was used to collect relevant data from ‎the subjects, psychological school climate ‎‎(PSC) and teachers’ job performance questionnaire (TJPQ).The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation and ‎the null hypothesis was analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation. The findings of ‎this study revealed that there is statistically significant positive correlation between ‎psychological school climate and teachers’ job performance (r = 0.056). This study concluded ‎that, teachers’ motivation is high with the grand mean of 3.59, schools’ safety is moderate ‎with the grand mean of 2.79 and teachers’ job performance is high in Senior Secondary ‎schools in Yobe State with the grand mean of 4.41. This study also recommended that Yobe‎State government should maintain hope of total security through employment of security ‎personnel and install surveillance cameras and  motivate teachers, by providing incentive, ‎adequate instructional material, in-service training, organize workshops for teachers and ‎encourage students and establish safety in all schools in order to facilitate teachers’ job ‎performance in schools‎. 
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