Record Keeping Modes as Correlates Of Teachers’ Job Enhancement in Iseyin Federal Constituency, Oyo State

Abstract

School Records, kept manually, are characterized by inadequate skills, misplacement, poor handling, poor processing; these affect storage and their retrieval. Adopting descriptive survey research design, with the population of all the 836 secondary school teachers, in 59 public schools, the study investigates record keeping mode as correlate of teachers’ job enhancement in Iseyin Federal Constituency, Oyo State. Multistage and proportionate sampling techniques were used in selecting a sample of 200 secondary school teachers from 20 randomly drawn schools. Research Instrument titled, Record Keeping Mode Questionnaire,
(RKMQ), which was validated by experts; and has a reliability coefficient of 0.80, was used to collect data for the study. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation, (PPMC), were used to test the hypotheses formulated, at 0.05, level of significance. The result showed that there is a significant correlation between record keeping and teachers’ job enhancement, (r=.812); there is a significant correlation between computerized record keeping mode and teachers’ job enhancement, (r=.938); there is a significant correlation between male and female teachers’ possession of computer literacy skills for record keeping in schools, (r = .887); there is a significant correlation between manual record keeping mode and teachers’ job enhancement, (r = .875), and that, male and female teachers differ in their preference for record keeping mode, (r = .810). Therefore recommends that the government should ensure that computers and specialized record keeping software are provided for teachers, with relevant trainings given, on their utilization.