Influence of Teacher’s Gender on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria

The study examined the influence of teacher’s gender in secondary school students’ performance in Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Subject for the study were two hundred (200) SS II Physics students in randomly drawn from ten secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The research design adopted was descriptive survey of the expos-facto research type. ANOVA statistical analysis was used to analyze the tree null hypotheses formulated for the study. The findings showed that there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of boys taught by male and that of those taught by female Physics teachers, there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of girls taught by male and that of those taught by female teachers and there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of students taught by male and that of those taught by female Physics teachers. Conclusion and recommendations were also made in this paper.