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PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA
No full textThis study examined Principals’ Leadership Effectiveness and Management of Public Secondary
Schools in North Central Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to investigate impact of
principals’ leadership effectiveness in the areas of instructional supervision, communication,
provision of instructional materials, involvement of teachers in decision making, discipline,
evaluation of students’ performance and community relation skills on the management of public
secondary schools. Seven research questions guided the study and seven null hypotheses were
formulated and tested. The review of literature was done under theoretical framework,
conceptual framework and empirical studies. The study adopted survey research design. The
population of the study comprised 34,473 teachers from 1,949 public secondary schools. A
sample of 1,737 teachers was taken for the questionnaire and 100 for the interview schedule all
from 100 public secondary schools using multi-stage sampling technique of Principals’
Leadership Questionnaire (PLEQ) with reliability coefficient of 0.97 and Interview schedule on
Principals Leadership (IPL) were used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were
used to answer the research questions. Chi-Squire test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05
level of significance. The result showed that principals’ leadership effectiveness do significantly
impact on management of secondary schools in the areas of instructional supervision,
communication, provision of instructional materials, decision making, discipline, evaluation of
students and community relation skills in the management. Based on the findings of the study, it
was recommended among others that principals should be adequately enlightened with more
robust supervision strategies through seminars and conferences which may include classroom
observation, analysis/strategy, post observation conferences and post conferences analysis and
that Ministries of Education should make it mandatory for all school heads to be involved in
students’ evaluation in order to assess teachers’ job outputs as well as students’ academic
performance
