Principals’ Managerial Styles As Determinat of Public Senior Secondary School Efectiveness in Kwara State
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2024
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Nurur Jadid University
Abstract
Education is a basic rights and the needs for its provision in most efficient manner
towards ensuring social liberation, political, economic and cultural development of
countries cannot be undermined. However, the efficacy of secondary schools has raised
deep concern among stakeholders in the sector. Thus, the study examines principals’
managerial styles as determinant of public senior secondary schools school
effectiveness in Kwara State. Nigeria. Descriptive research design of correlation type
was adopted for this study. The population of the study was made up of 6, 483
teachers and 384 principals in all the 384 public senior secondary schools in the three
senatorial districts that constitute Kwara State (Kwara Central, Kwara North and
Kwara South). Ten public senior secondary schools were randomly selected from each
of the three senatorial districts that make up the Kwara State, thus 30 public senior
secondary schools were selected for the study. Also, 279 teachers were selected using
Research Advisor (2006), Managerial Styles and School Effectiveness Questionnaires
(PMSSEQ) were designed for the collection of relevant data from the repondents. The
instruments were validated and subjected to reliability study. The data gathered for the
study were statistically analyzed using descriptive research statistic of frequency,
percentage answer the research questions, while Pearson Product – Moment
Correlation was used to answer the second research question. The findings of the study
revealed that principals’ managerial styles determined school effectiveness in public
senior secondary school in Kwara state. It was recommended among others that:
capacity buildings through seminars, workshops and conferences should be
periodically organized for secondary school principals to update their managerial
knowledge and skills on global leadership styles thereby enhancing effectiveness of the
schools. Also, principals’ should not restrict themselves to just one managerial style of
leadership, but rather varying them depending upon the circumstances for overall
improvement and effectiveness of the school system
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Adam, I. , Kikelomo. W. S, Alao B O. (2024)