KIJHUS Volume. 1, Issue 3 (2020)

The study investigated the effects of over schooling on job satisfaction and job performance among secondary school teachers in Nigeria. Two hundred and twenty respondents were drawn purposively from secondary school Mathematics teachers in Lagos State.  The instrument for data collection was a researcher – designed questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.89. The data collected were analyzed using ANOVA. The finding of the study showed a significant effect of over schooling on the secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction and job performance. The study recommended among other that the government should make all efforts to make job available and staffing should be carried out according to the standing rule to avoid job mismatch