Students’ Perception of Teachers and Parents’ Accountability in Secondary Schools

This study investigated students' perceptions of teachers' and parents' accountability among senior secondary school students in Ibandan, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto survey research design on a sample of three hundred and twenty-three participants. The study was guided by two research questions; what is the students' perception of teacher accountability? what is the students' perception of parent accountability? Students' perception of Teachers' Accountability Scale (SPTAS) and Students' Perception of Parents' Accountability Scale (SPPAS) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics namely; frequency counts, percentages and means, were used for data analysis. The findings revealed that students' perception of teacher accountability was significantly low, but students' perception of their parents' accountability was significantly high. This implies that teachers are not achieving the optimal learning of their students and not taking care of the students' progress according to their capacity while parents are carrying out their responsibilities accordingly. It is recommended that teachers should attend workshops, seminars and in-service training to upgrade their teaching activities. Teachers should encourage students to improve their attainments and develop their personalities. Teachers should make themselves available to students and help them to understand topics that are difficult to learn. Parents should assist their children that have challenges of coping with academics by employing the service of private home tutors. Parents should endeavor to encourage and give their children adequate time to read and do their home works at home rather than engaging them with domestic work and watching of non-educational movies most of the time.