Principal’s Supervisory Strategies for Teacher’s Job Performances in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Abia State
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The study investigated principal’s supervisory strategies for teacher’s job performances in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Abia State. The design for the study was descriptive research design. The population of the study consisted of all the principals of Senior Secondary Schools in Abia State and all the teachers of senior secondary schools in Abia State. The population of the study was 2,224 which equally included 253 principals in 253 public senior secondary schools in Abia State. The sample size for the study was eight hundred and forty-six (846). The drawn sample size was 30% of the entire population. A total of 49 teachers were drawn from each of the 17 local government areas of Abia State, adopting stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for the study was tagged, “Supervisory Strategies and Teacher Performance Questionnaire” (PSQMSQ). The response scale for the questionnaire items was structured using modified Likert type scale. Very High Extent- VHE (4), High Extent- HE (3), Low Extent- LE (2), Very Low Extent- VLE (1). To ensure face and content validities of the instruments, the initial drafts will be submitted to the supervisor, and two (2) other experts in the department of educational management, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni Port Harcourt. The study adopted the Crombach Alpha Reliability for reliability index of the instrument and obtained .923>.71 which showed that the instrument was highly reliable. Out of 846 copies of questionnaires distributed, 800 copies representing 95% were duly completed and returned. The study used the returned copies for its analysis. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions, while t-test statistics was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. The study concluded that supervisory strategies of the principals in other terms refers to his or her job roles to ensure effective job performance of teachers and recommended among others that principals should visit teachers in the classroom during lessons and observations made corrected or commended for effective teacher job performance.
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