RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS5 PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUPILS’ IN MATHEMATICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA

The study investigated the relationship between teachers’ personality and academic achievement of primary school pupils’ in Federal Capital Territory (F.C.T) - Abuja. Five research questions were answered using descriptive statistics, while five hypothesis were tested using Pearson’s product moment correlation at the 0.05 level of significance. The study adopts the Correlational survey designs. The population of the study consisted of 205,758 primary six pupils from 537 schools. A sample size of 540 pupils from 18 schools were selected. A simple random sample technique was used to select the sample for the study. Two instruments were used for data collection; Pupils’ Report Card (first and second term achievements score) and the big five inventory questionnaire by Lewis Goldberg (1991) was adopted. Findings from the study revealed that there is a significantly relationship between teachers’ personality traits of openness, agreeableness and extraversion on academic achievement of Mathematics and English language, while no significant relationship was found between teachers’ personality traits, of extraversion on pupils’ achievement in English language. The study however revealed that no significant relationship was found between teachers’ personality traits of conscientiousness and neuroticism and pupils’ achievements in Mathematics and English language. Based on the findings, the researcher therefore recommended among other that; Teachers having openness, extraversion, and agreeableness personality traits may take Mathematics and English language subjects to teach to produce better result. Since the personality trait have found to produce better academic achievement in Mathematics and English Language, while conscientiousness and neuroticism personality teachers may be encouraged to checkmate their traits when dealing with elementary class in order to enhance better academic result. x