Abstract:
The study investigated “Teachers’ motivation and students’ academic performance a study of
secondary schools in Kasese Municipality, Kasese District, Uganda. The study’s objectives were:
To find out the level of teachers’ motivation in secondary schools and to find out the level of
students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Kasese Municipality, to find out the
relationship between teachers’ motivation and students’ academic performance in Kasese
Municipality. This study employed a correlation research design. The study sample was 186
respondents who gave their views according to questions asked. The findings revealed low level
of teachers’ motivation and infrastructural development which negatively affected students’
academic performance. The hypothesis was rejected meaning that there is a significant relationship
between the teachers’ motivation and students’ academic performance in secondary schools in
Kasese Municipality with 639 is a strongly positive linear relationship meaning that when the
teachers’ motivation and students’ academic performance is high, and when the motivation of
teachers and infrastructural development is low, the academic performance of students is low. The
study employed descriptive research design which is both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
The study took qualitative approach because it had variables that would be measured in numbers
and analyzed, interpreted in statistical procedures like frequency, percentages, SD, mean,
correlation and regression. While the qualitative approach dealt with attributes of the respondents
such as suggestions and opinions on the subject under study. The study was heterogonous since
my respondents were both males and females.
