Principals` Instructional Supervision and the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria
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The study looked at principal instructional supervision and its impact on the academic performance of public secondary school students. The study adopted the descriptive research design. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A sample size of 400 teachers (150 males and 250 females) were obtained from a population of about 30 public secondary schools in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State with the use of structural random sampling technique. The instrument used for the study was a self-structure 10-item questionnaire. The instrument was validated by experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined by using test-retest method. The reliability co-efficient of 0.87 was obtained indicating that the instrument was very reliable. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and the criterion level was 2.50 while the Z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed among others, that principals` classroom visitation and curriculum implementation strategies have impact on public secondary school students' academic performance in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State. Also, it was recommended among others that there should be regular training of principals on classroom visitation, curriculum implementations and other instructional supervision techniques.
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