ASSESSMENT OF DECISION MAKING PROCESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA STATE
ASSESSMENT OF DECISION MAKING PROCESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA STATE
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2012-09
Authors
ISAH, FATIMA.
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The main purpose of this study was to assess decision making process in
secondary schools in Kaduna state. The major factors considered were the
management principles and their impact on decision making in secondary
schools. This enabled the researcher to assess the decision making process and
to determine whether they have impact on the management of secondary
schools in Kaduna state. Consequently, four objectives, four research questions
and corresponding four hypotheses were posed for the study. The review of
literature gave broad spectrum of various definitions of decision making
management as well as reviewed the trends on management principle and their
impact on decision making process in secondary schools in Kaduna State. A
number of relevant and related literature by different authors were reviewed on
the research problem. The design adopted for the study was the descriptive
research design using survey method. The population of the study comprised of
one hundred and twenty three (123) secondary schools in Kaduna state, five
thousand and thirty four (5034) teachers from which the sample was drawn to
represent forty (40) secondary schools in which ten (10) principals each were
selected from each zone to form part of the respondents. Though the sample
size randomly selected for the study was three hundred and six (306) from the
thirty (30) secondary schools selected to represent teachers and principals, only
two hundred and ninety six were retrieved and used for the study. The
instrument for data collection was the likert five point scale questionnaire
designed and adopted by the researcher. The data collected was used to answer
the research questions while the four null hypotheses were statistically tested on
0.05 level of significance using the t-test statistics for independent samples. The
study established that teachers were insignificantly involved in decisionmaking
despite their eagerness to be involved. Some duties are given to
senior teachers or committees even when teachers feel that they should
be directly involved. There are times when school heads make unilateral
decisions and impose them on teachers for implementation. The study
recommends that heads of schools should give their teachers room to
come up with ideas and look at all issues objectively.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND
CURRICULUM,
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING SECTION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA-NIGERIA.
Keywords
ASSESSMENT,, DECISION,, MAKING,, PROCESS,, SECONDARY,, SCHOOLS,, KADUNA,, STATE.