Merit-Based Staffing and Good Leadership Prowess as Correlates Administrative Effectiveness in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State

Abstract

This study investigated quality assurance strategies as predictors of administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised the 290 public secondary schools in Rivers State with 290 Principal in the public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The sample of this study comprised 290 Principal in the public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, representing 100% of the population was used as study participants. Census sampling technique was used for the study. Two sets of questionnaires structured in B and C that is the - Quality Assurance Strategies Questionnaire and Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire were used for data collection. A reliability index of 0.76 was obtained. Mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result amongst others revealed that, there is a high positive relationship between merit-based staffing, performance evaluation, effective supervision, good leadership and adequate provision of teaching facilities as a quality assurance strategy and administrative effectiveness in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Judging holistically from the findings of the study, it is very clear that, quality assurance is seen a systematic way of establishing and maintaining quality improvement in the general school activities. In the education system, this includes all activities that contribute to the designed, assessment, monitoring of standards agreed upon by all stakeholders. It was recommended that, school principals should establish disciplinary measures that will compel every actor in the school to follow so that responsibilities, rule and regulations may take its place while administering the school programmes for quality control.