Institutional Variables as a Determinant of Secondary School Effectiveness

The effectiveness of secondary schools has
continued to engage attentions of educational
practitioners and policy makers. The paper investigated
institutional factors as predictors of Secondary School
effectiveness in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The study
employs expost facto type of research design, and made
use of stratified random sampling technique in selecting
500 teachers from a population of 28560 teachers. The
instrument used for data collection was school
effectiveness questionnaire (SEQ). The reliability of the
instrument was examine using split-half method, which
yielded index that ranges from 0.71 to 0.87. The data
collected was analysed using Multiple Regression
statistical technique. The result obtained showed that
institutional variables such as school facilities, teacher to
students’ ratio, home-school relationship, school
leadership, teachers’ interest and commitment, school
plants and students’ performance jointly and
significantly predicted school effectiveness. The result
also suggests that, school facilities exert the highest
influence on school effectiveness. It was therefore
recommended among others that there should be
adequate provision of school facilities in secondary
schools as this Will serve to standardize academic and
other school programmes and that will enhance school
effectiveness.