Abstract

This study was designed to investigate “The effect of teachers’ attitude towards teaching on students’ academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality “The objectives that were used for the study were:

To find out the effects of: Motivation on students’ academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality, Reinforcement on students academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality and Remediation on students’ academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality.

The research design use for the study was the descriptive research. The sample size was 140 students selected from seven secondary schools in Buea municipality. The questionnaire was used to obtain information from correspondents and data were analyzed descriptively using percentages and frequencies and inferentially using person’s product correlation.

The following results were obtained; the findings revealed that Motivation affect students ‘academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality positively, Reinforcement influenced students ‘academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality positively and Remediation affects students ‘academic performance in geography in secondary schools in Buea Municipality positively.

Based on the findings on research question it was recommended that amongst others that It is recommended that, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Trainings and the ministry of transport  should make sure that official transportation system is offered to students during morning and evening in the big cities in Cameroon  so that students  be motivated with classroom learning during morning session and to avoid from ant-social practices; secondly, the school timetable should be re-scheduled especially in the big cities to start late morning and finish early evening so that students may not miss some of lessons and avoid reporting home at late hours. Further study should be on the effect of traffic congestions on degree of students’ learning concentration approach.

Also it was recommended that it is recommended that Basing on the findings from this study the following are the recommendations; Workshops on the use of, and updates of teachers attitude should be organized on regular basis for teachers since knowledge gain is a continuous, process and knowledge grows in itself and also because an instructional materials not well explained instead confuses the student.

Again that the teachers should be proud of their profession , prepare their lesson very well  to show mastery of their subject  matters and exhibit positive attitudes towards their  profession  so as to encourage students to be desirous of teaching profession.