Investigating Teachers’ and Pupils’ Attitudes towards Favoritism as an Influencing factor on pupils academic acheivement

Abstract

The present study aims at investigating the attitudes of teachers and pupils toward Favoritism as an influencing factor on pupils’ academic achievement. To achieve this aim, the present research adopts the quantitative descriptive method. The study carried out a survey of two questionnaires and an observation inside and outside the classrooms at Mohamed Benyoub secondary school- Guelma to test the hypothesis, which stated that if teachers and pupils have negative attitudes toward teachers’ favoritism, pupils’ academic achievement would be affected. The sample was composed of two teachers working in that secondary school, and one hundred eight (108) pupils from different levels who were not selected randomly because the study must be done with pupils who are teaching by the same teachers. Moreover, the results show that there is a negative relationship between the two variables, which confirm the hypothesis set at the beginning of the research. In the light of this, teachers’ favoritism at schools needs to be eliminated in order to improve pupils’ academic achievement.

Key words: Pupils’ Academic Achievement, Teachers’ Favoritism, Attitudes, Secondary school.