INVESTIGATING THE LEVELS OF PRINCIPALS’ ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS PERFORMANCE AND TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TO WORK IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDO STATE
Keywords:
Administrative Tasks Performance, Attitude to Work, Edo State, Principals, Public Secondary Schools, TeachersAbstract
The study investigated the levels of principals’ administrative tasks performance and teachers’ attitude to work in public secondary schools in Edo State. Eight research questions were raised to guide the study and six hypotheses formulated and tested. The study adopted a quantitative survey research design to achieve the aim of the study. The population consisted of 1652 teachers and 305 principals in the public senior secondary schools in Edo State. A simple random sampling technique was applied to select 826 teachers, representing 50% of the population of teachers. All in all, 810 teachers actively participated in the study. Two instruments, titled: Principals’ Administrative Tasks Questionnaire (PATQ) and Attitude to Work of Teachers Questionnaire (AWTQ) was used for data collection. Both instruments were adapted from existing management scales. Cronbach’s alpha was used in calculating the reliability coefficients of the instruments, which yielded a coefficient values of 0.68 and 0.72. Research Questions 1 and 2 were answered using descriptive statistics. The findings showed that public secondary school principals in Edo State performed their administrative tasks very satisfactorily, public secondary school teachers in Edo State had a positive or favourable attitude to work. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that the working conditions of principals and teachers should be improved in order to enhance the administrative tasks performance of principals and the favourable attitude to work of teachers in public secondary schools in Edo State.
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