Principals' Management Strategies as Correlates of Teachers' Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Enugu State

The increasing display of public dissatisfaction, resentment and anger over the appalling state of moral ineptitude and academic backwardness that have characterized Nigerian secondary schools in recent times especially in Enugu State is worrisome. The absenteeism and lackadaisical attitude and examination malpractices have become common features of many public secondary schools in Enugu State. This prompted the study which is to analyze the principals’ management strategies as correlates of teachers’ effective teaching in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested. Correlation survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 8,644 teachers from 292 public secondary schools in the six Education zones in Enugu State. The simple random sampling was used to draw 863 teachers in the 292 public schools in Enugu State. A 10-item questionnaire titled ‘‘Principals’ Management Strategies Rating Scale (PMSRS) and 20- item questionnaire titled “Teachers’ Effective Teaching Rating Scale” (TETRS) respectively were the instruments for data collection. The instruments were subjected to face validation by three experts from the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Cronbach alpha method was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. The overall coefficient of 0.90 was obtained. The researchers with the help of five research assistants collected the data for the study. Pearson ‘r’as a linear correlation was used to answer the research questions, while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at P<0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study among others revealed that Principals’ management strategies are a significant correlate of teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Based on the findings it was recommended among others that principals should give priority to teachers’ discipline since it affects teachers’ effectiveness.