Perception of Leadership and Administrative Pattern of Principals in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State Nigeria
Keywords:
Administration, Leadership, Principals, Performance, Public secondary schoolAbstract
The study investigated the perception of leadership and administrative pattern of Principals in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The population of the study consisted of the two hundred and ninety six (296) principals in all the two hundred and ninety-six (296) public senior secondary schools in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The sample of this study comprised the two hundred and ninety-six (296) principals selected from the two hundred and ninety-six (296) public senior secondary schools in the twenty three (23) Local Government Areas in Rivers State, representing 100% of the population using the census sampling technique. Out of the 296 copies of questionnaires distributed 275 representing 96% of the total number of copies, were duly completed and returned. The instrument for data collection for this study was a 30 item self-structured questionnaire titled “Perception of Leadership and Administrative Pattern of Principals Questionnaire (PLAPPQ)”. The instrument was structured using the modified 4-points Likert Scale model of; Very High Extent (VHE) – 4 points; High Extent (HE) =3 points; Low Extent (LE) = 2 point and Very Low Extent (VLE) =1 point. The instrument was validated by the researcher’s supervisor and two other experts in the field of educational management. Cronbach alpha was used to measure the reliability and obtained 0.92 which implied that the instrument was reliable. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer five (5) research questions, while the t-test statistics was used to test the five (5) null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings revealed that to a high extent, Principals performed administrative roles in students and staff personnel administration as well as leadership roles. The study concluded that principals perform their administrative roles to a high extent as regards to students and staff personnel administration and greater leadership performance in public secondary schools. It recommended among others that principals should endeavour to enhance their knowledge by attending conferences, workshops as it is essential to continue to develop their administrative skills for greater students and staff personnel administration. Government should imbibe administrative principles in their general school administration in order to ensure effective staff and students’ administration.
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