INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLE OF PRINCIPALS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OKENE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KOGJ STATE, NIGERIA BY

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1994
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JAMES, JIMOH
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ABSTRACT The poor performance in public examinations by students of secondary schools in Okene Local Government Area (Kogi State) and the allegations that principals were responsible have been matters of social and academic concern. It was against this background that the research on the instructional leadership role performance of the principals in Okene Local Government Area was undertaken. It aimed at examining how well the principals of schools in the locality perform their instructional leadership role. To offer a comprehensive write-up, issues that could militate against the effective performance of this role of the principals, were examined. All the 23 principals of schools in Okene under the Kogi Teaching Service Board as well as a randomly selected 207 teachers from a population of 439 teachers formed the respondents. The teachers had served for at least two years under the principals. The questionnaire was drawn using Likert scale of measuring social behaviour. The principals were expected to rate themselves on the scale on how they vii perform their instructional leadership role, and the problems that affect such role performance. The teachers were to rate their respective principals on how they see them perform those aspects of instructional leadership and also rate the extent to which some factors affect the performance of the instructional leadership role by their principals. A total of nine hypotheses were drawn to test whether there was a significant difference in the views of the principals and those of teachers on the aspects of instructional leadership role and some extraneous factors that affect the performance of the instructional leadership role by principals, percentage was used to analyse the demographic information while the T-test was used for hypotheses testing. The analysis suggested that principals did not adequately motivate teachers and supervise instruction in their schools. However, it was noted that principals tried to provide facilities for teaching, sponsor inservice programmes for staff and solicit parents support to improve instruction, it was equally noted that parents’ inability to provide books for ward(s); inadequate facilities from viii government, lack of autonomy for school principals and abrupt changes in the school calendar militated i against the instructional leadership role performance of principals. Based on the findings, recommendations were made as possible solutions to usher in some improvements of principals’ performance in schools. it was recommended that the neglect of supervision of instruction in the schools by principals should be a topic for further research.
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA.
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INSTRUCTIONAL,, LEADERSHIP,, ROLE,, PRINCIPALS,, SECONDARY,, SCHOOLS,, OKENE,, LOCAL,, GOVERNMENT,, AREA,, KOGJ,, STATE,, NIGERIA.
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