THE IMPACT OF EFFECTIVENESS OF PRINCIPALS’ ROLE PERFORMANCE IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE
Abstract
The study is conducted into the level of effective role performance of public secondary school principals of Anambra state with a view to ascertain their rate of effective performance on their role of curriculum and instructional leadership and to make recommendation. The study also tried to determine the opinion of teachers about principals performance in urban and rural schools, male and female principals and the two categories of experience principals. To determine the above, research questions and hypotheses were formulated to enable the study be statistical tested. T-test was used for the three hypotheses, all on the 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that the rating of the effective performance of the secondary school principals is effectively above the decision rule of 2.51 and that there is no significant difference in the assessment of the role effective performance of the principals by the teachers on the basis gender. The result of the study also showed that there is no significant difference in the assessment of the role performance of the principals by the teachers on the basis of school location and also on experience categories of teachers. The population of the study consists of all teachers and their principals in public secondary schools in Anambra state. The sample size is 600 teachers out 5552 teachers in Anambra state. It is the conclusion of this study that all categories of principals performed their roles effectively. Based on the result of the study it was recommended among others that principals should effectively perform their roles whether in urban or rural schools of Anambra state to give all teachers and students equal benefits from their roles. it is also recommended that principals of secondary schools should effectively give more attention to leadership to determine instructional goals, material and method of instruction of teachers if the ultimate goal of secondary schools which is to promote child growth and development is to be achieved and that principals should take individual teacher ideas and suggestion as important to ensure that effective and efficient performance of the teachers in terms of teaching is achieved.
TABLE CONTENTS
Title Page———i
Certification——–ii
Dedication———iii
Acknowledgement——-iv
Abstract ———vi
Table of Content——–vii
Chapter One
1.0 Introduction ——-1
1.1. Statement of Problem——4
1.2 Purpose of the Study——5
1.3 Significance of Study——8
1.4 Limitation——–9
1.5 Scope of Study——-11
Chapter Two
2.0 Review of Related Literature —-12
2.6. Summary of Literature Review—- 19
Chapter Three
3.0 Research Methodology and Procedure—22
3.1 Population ——–22
3.2 Sample and Sampling Technique—-22
3.3 Validation of the Instrument —-23
3.4 Reliability of the Instrument —–23
3.5 Data Analysis——-23
Chapter Four
4.0 Presentation and Discussion of Result—24
4.1 Analysis and interpretaion of Data—25
4.2 Discussion of Results——38
Chapter Five
5.0. Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation –40
5.1 Summary——–40
5.2 Conclusion——–41
5.3 Recommendation——42
References ———45
Appendix 1——–47
Appendix ———50
THE IMPACT OF FFECTIVENESS OF PRINCIPALS’ ROLE PERFORMANCE IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE