PRINCIPALS’ SUPERVISORY SKILLS AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study investigated Principals’ Supervisory Skills and Teachers’ Job Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlation research design. The population of the study comprised of 263 principals’ in the 263 public secondary schools in the six Education Zones in the State as recorded by the Post Primary Schools Service Commission (PPSSC), Awka. The sample of this study comprised all the 263 principals’ in the 263 public secondary schools in the six Education Zones in the State. This study adopted the whole population as sample since it is manageable for the study. The instrument for data collection was two questionnaires structured by the researcher titled Principals’ Supervisory Skills Questionnaire (PSSQ) and “Teachers Job Performance Questionnaire’ (TJSQ) was used for data collection. The instruments were subjected to face and construct validity by three experts, two from Educational Management and one from Educational Measurement and Evaluation, all from Faculty of Education, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus, Anambra State. The reliability of the instruments was established using Cronbach’s Alpha statistics to find the reliability index and it yielded a value of .75 for class room visitation, .87 for motivational skill, .77 for inter personal skill, .78 communication skill and .86 and average coefficient of o.82 for Principals’ Supervisory skills Questionnaire (PSSQ) and 0.78 for Teachers Job Performance Questionnaire. Reliability coefficient index showed values which indicated a positive and high reliability, therefore the instruments were considered reliable and adequate for the study. The researcher visited the sampled schools with the aid of five briefed research-assistants who were given proper orientation on what is required, how to administer and retrieve the copies of the questionnaire to the principals in their respective schools. In addition to the instructions written on the questionnaire, the respondents was given verbal instructions and clarifications where necessary. The data collected were analyzed as follows. The research questions were answered using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient while the hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance using test of significance of Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Based on the findings of the study, The study concluded that there exist, a medium to a very high positive relationship and a significance relationship between principals’ classroom visitation skill (r=, p=) motivational skill (r= ,p=), interpersonal skill (r=, p=), communication skill (r=, p=) and teachers’ job performance in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra. Also, the study showed that there is a significant relationship between motivational skill and teachers’ job performance in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State .Based on the findings of the study the following recommendations were made among others: that Ministry of Education should organize workshop and seminars that would enable principals to improve their communication skill as success of supervision depends to a large extent on the effective use of communication skills.