ASSESSMENT OF ATTITUDES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS INFLUENCING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Failure to understand the school system gives rise to non-meeting up to Curriculum Implementation of agreed plan and leads to nonperformance. The purpose of this study was to assess the attitude of physical education teachers influencing secondary schools physical education curriculum in Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples from the Six {6} Geo- political zones and the respondents consisted of head of Physical Education Teachers in the Public and Private Secondary Schools. The population for the study was all secondary schools of Fifty Four thousand Five hundred and twenty- one (54,521) with sample size of Six hundred and Fifty six (656). The data collected were statistically analysed using inferential statistics of One Sample t- test used to test the hypotheses. The major findings from the study showed that attitudes of physical education Teachers was T- Cal of 3.109 and P- Val of 0.007 influence the implementation of secondary schools Physical Education curriculum in Nigeria. The researcher recommended the need for all secondary school teachers and students to change their attitude towards physical education as a subject and should strictly adhered to the curriculum to be implemented.