Teachers’ Job Commitment and Goal Achievement in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Kwara State, Nigeria

Teachers play a very germane role in the attainment of school goal.Thus, this study investigated teachers' job commitment and goal achievement in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria.Descriptive survey of correlational type was adopted for this study with the population of 147 principals in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State.Teachers' Job Commitment and Goal Achievement Questionnaire (TJCGAQ) was used to collect data for this study.Descriptive statistics of mean and rank order was used to answer research questions and multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis formulated for this study.The findings revealed that; the dimensions of teachers' job commitment such as punctuality to school, lesson preparation, use of appropriate instructional materials and classroom control influenced positively the level of job commitment of teachers in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria.The dimensions of teachers' job commitment were good predictors of goal achievement in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State.Based on this, it was recommended, among others that, teachers should ensure to maintain effective use of appropriate instructional materials in order to improve students' learning activities, punctual and regular in the classroom in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State.