Purpose: This study evaluates staff Training and Development Programmes (TDPs) in secondary schoo... more Purpose: This study evaluates staff Training and Development Programmes (TDPs) in secondary schools based on the views of administrators and teachers. The research was implemented in public secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopted the survey research design with 5408 participants (administrators = 542; teachers = 4595). Four research questions guided the study. The Staff Training and Development Programmes Questionnaire (STDPQ) was used for data collection. Findings revealed essential areas of staff training and development. Findings: Various methods are employed for staff training and development. The results further showed various constraints that impeded staff TDPs in secondary schools. Conclusion: Based on the findings, it was concluded that staff in secondary schools have different training and development needs adjudged by both the principals and teachers as crucial for job enhancement. Various staff training and developme...
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Poor leadership self-efficacy and high organizational burnout are context-based cognitive conditi... more Poor leadership self-efficacy and high organizational burnout are context-based cognitive conditions that sabotage leadership outcomes across organizations. When school administrators who are the leaders and directors of school affairs struggle with poor leadership self-efficacy and elevated levels of burnout their leadership styles are negatively affected with far-reaching impacts on the teachers, students, and the overall school outputs. This randomized control trial sought to investigate the effectiveness of GROW-Model (GROW-M) of Cognitive behavioral Coaching in raising leadership self-efficacy and minimizing burnout symptoms in a sample of school administrators in Enugu State, Nigeria. Participants included 77 school administrators who were randomly assigned to GROW-M ( N = 38) and waitlisted control ( N = 39) groups. A 2-h GROW-M program was delivered to the GROW-M intervention group weekly for 9 weeks. Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators’ Survey and the School Leaders’ Self-E...
Curriculum reengineering, web-based technology acquisition, and job creation among Nigerian terti... more Curriculum reengineering, web-based technology acquisition, and job creation among Nigerian tertiary institution graduates were all examined in this research. The researchers used a descriptive survey design following the quantitative research approach. The study included all Nigerian graduates eligible for national service or its exemption who earned their diplomas or degrees between 2016 and 2021. The data was gathered via an online survey titled "Curriculum Re-engineering, Acquisition of Emerging Technologies, and Job Creation Questionnaire (CRAETJCQ). To assemble the data for this study, we used a snowball method. There were 4,874 replies countrywide after four months of data collection; however, only 4,628 responses satisfied the data analysis conditions after screening out irrelevant responses. Results indicated low curriculum reengineering in Nigerian postsecondary institutions. Nigerian graduates had a poor adoption of new web-based technologies but are increasingly usi...
The rapid development and usage of management information system during the past three decades ha... more The rapid development and usage of management information system during the past three decades has had many points of contact with effective performance of universities. To achieve the purpose of the study, three (3) research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post-facto design was adopted for the study. The population consisted of six thousand from four (4) universities in the zone. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique, to draw a sample of 414 staff of the universities used for the study, management information system usage and universities effectiveness questionnaire (MISUUEQ) was used to elicit information for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The findings of the study revealed that there is a relationship between management information system usage and institutional effectiveness in terms of examination conduct, students records keeping, staff appraisal, library services. Based on th...
Previous studies have assessed the relative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social an... more Previous studies have assessed the relative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social and professional support on teacher’s job performance in secondary or higher education. Little or nothing is yet to be known about the effect of these variables on teacher’s job performance at the primary education level. This study is the first to show the relative and cumulative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social and professional support on teacher’s job performance in primary education. An ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study, with a sample of 965 teachers selected through the proportionate stratified sampling technique. Two instruments – the “Improvement Strategies Questionnaire (ISQ)” and the Teachers’ Effectiveness Scale (TES) were used for data collection. Findings showed a significant effect of all the independent variables partially and jointly on the job performance of primary education teachers. Based on this conclusion, policy implications are...
Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 2012
AbstractThe study examined Enhancing Quality Assurance through Lecturers' Job Performance in ... more AbstractThe study examined Enhancing Quality Assurance through Lecturers' Job Performance in Private and Public Tertiary Institutions in South Eastern Nigeria. Universities in south Eastern Nigeria are experiencing serious decline in academic performance. Recent statistics reveal that poor quality output is increasing despite successive government and non-governmental organizations funding efforts. This paper intends to address this quality performance aspect of tertiary institutions in the areas under study. The population of the study was lecturers of both public and private tertiary institutions. The total sample used for the study was 600 lecturers randomly selected from the targeted population. To analyze the investigation, two null hypotheses were formulated. In pursuit of the objectives of the study a survey research design was adopted. The questionnaire schedule was used. Responses were collated, coded and analyzed using population t-test at an alpha level of 0.05. The q...
Previous studies have documented numerous benefits of using Virtual Labs (VLs) in promoting effec... more Previous studies have documented numerous benefits of using Virtual Labs (VLs) in promoting effective teaching of science subjects. The low level of teachers’ awareness, accessibility, and utilization of VLs in schools is also known. To the researchers’ knowledge, what is yet to be known is the extent of administrators’ awareness, procurement, and management of VLs in schools which have implications on teachers’ accessibility and utilization of VLs. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. A questionnaire (AAPMVLQ), with Cronbach alpha (α = .83), was administered to a sample of 662 secondary school principals and vice-principals drawn from 271 public schools in Cross River State Nigeria. Findings revealed that the level of administrators’ awareness, procurement, and management of VLs in secondary schools is very low. The low level of awareness was attributed to the poor supply of modern facilities to schools in the area of study. While the low levels of procurement and manage...
This study used a structural equation modelling approach to assess the association between employ... more This study used a structural equation modelling approach to assess the association between employee work-life policies, psychological empowerment, and academic staff job commitment in universities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study following a descriptive survey research design. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted in the selection of 315 academic staff from two universities in the study area. “Work-Life Policies, Psychological Empowerment and Job Commitment Questionnaire (WPPEJCQ)” was used as the instrument for data collection. The construct validity of the instrument was ascertained through an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The Kaiser-Meyer-Ohlin of .894 and the Bartlett coefficient of 7795.820 were obtained. Several fit indices of Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to accept the model such as RMSEA=.031, TLI=.969, CFI=.971 and many others. The null hypotheses were all t...
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between management of Information and Co... more The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between management of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and teachers’ work performance in secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, two research questions and one null hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of 5288 teachers in all the 271 public secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. A sample of 800 teachers was drawn using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. Two instruments titled: Management of Information and Communications Technology Questionnaire (MICTQ) and Teachers’ Work Performance Questionnaire (TWPQ) were used to collect data from the respondents. Data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at .05 level of significance and 798 degrees of freedom. The finding revealed that among the 12 principals’ ICT management practices, ...
This study examined electricity supply prices for political socialization in education and its im... more This study examined electricity supply prices for political socialization in education and its implications for functionality in university education in Cross River State, Nigeria. The study was a descriptive survey research. The population included 942 head of departments in the two public universities located in Cross River State, Nigeria. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents from the universities studied. The instrument designated ‘Electricity Prices For Political Socialization Questionnaire (EPFPSQ)’ was designed to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated and had a reliability co-efficient of 0.853. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentage score. The study revealed that electricity supply prices, through management techniques of cost effectiveness, cost efficiency, access to and control of education moderately empowered the university system for political socialization. Electricity prices showed inadequat...
The main purpose of this study was to find out the influence of principals' innovative behavi... more The main purpose of this study was to find out the influence of principals' innovative behaviour on secondary school teachersâ?? task performance in Cross River State, Nigeria. The Ex-post Facto design was adopted for the study. Two sets of instruments-principals' innovative behaviour questionnaire (PIBQ) and teachers' task performance questionnaire (TTPQ) for teachers and students respectively were developed, validated and used. The (PIBQ) with six items on four-point Likert type scale were administered to 500 teachers while the (TTPQ) made up of 18 items were responded to by 2000 students selected through stratified random sampling technique. The data obtained were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The hypothesis was tested at0.05 level of significance. The major finding of the study showed that there was no significant influence of principals' innovative behaviour on teachers' task behaviour. Based on the above finding, some recommendations were made. Some of which are: (i) the government should encourage principals to initiate ideas that enhance school improvement by removing administrative bottle necks. (ii) Government and school principals should give teachers adequate training before introducing any novel ideas. This will enhance their skills and forestall the fear of the unknown that causes resistance to change.
Purpose: This study evaluates staff Training and Development Programmes (TDPs) in secondary schoo... more Purpose: This study evaluates staff Training and Development Programmes (TDPs) in secondary schools based on the views of administrators and teachers. The research was implemented in public secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopted the survey research design with 5408 participants (administrators = 542; teachers = 4595). Four research questions guided the study. The Staff Training and Development Programmes Questionnaire (STDPQ) was used for data collection. Findings revealed essential areas of staff training and development. Findings: Various methods are employed for staff training and development. The results further showed various constraints that impeded staff TDPs in secondary schools. Conclusion: Based on the findings, it was concluded that staff in secondary schools have different training and development needs adjudged by both the principals and teachers as crucial for job enhancement. Various staff training and developme...
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Poor leadership self-efficacy and high organizational burnout are context-based cognitive conditi... more Poor leadership self-efficacy and high organizational burnout are context-based cognitive conditions that sabotage leadership outcomes across organizations. When school administrators who are the leaders and directors of school affairs struggle with poor leadership self-efficacy and elevated levels of burnout their leadership styles are negatively affected with far-reaching impacts on the teachers, students, and the overall school outputs. This randomized control trial sought to investigate the effectiveness of GROW-Model (GROW-M) of Cognitive behavioral Coaching in raising leadership self-efficacy and minimizing burnout symptoms in a sample of school administrators in Enugu State, Nigeria. Participants included 77 school administrators who were randomly assigned to GROW-M ( N = 38) and waitlisted control ( N = 39) groups. A 2-h GROW-M program was delivered to the GROW-M intervention group weekly for 9 weeks. Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators’ Survey and the School Leaders’ Self-E...
Curriculum reengineering, web-based technology acquisition, and job creation among Nigerian terti... more Curriculum reengineering, web-based technology acquisition, and job creation among Nigerian tertiary institution graduates were all examined in this research. The researchers used a descriptive survey design following the quantitative research approach. The study included all Nigerian graduates eligible for national service or its exemption who earned their diplomas or degrees between 2016 and 2021. The data was gathered via an online survey titled "Curriculum Re-engineering, Acquisition of Emerging Technologies, and Job Creation Questionnaire (CRAETJCQ). To assemble the data for this study, we used a snowball method. There were 4,874 replies countrywide after four months of data collection; however, only 4,628 responses satisfied the data analysis conditions after screening out irrelevant responses. Results indicated low curriculum reengineering in Nigerian postsecondary institutions. Nigerian graduates had a poor adoption of new web-based technologies but are increasingly usi...
The rapid development and usage of management information system during the past three decades ha... more The rapid development and usage of management information system during the past three decades has had many points of contact with effective performance of universities. To achieve the purpose of the study, three (3) research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post-facto design was adopted for the study. The population consisted of six thousand from four (4) universities in the zone. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique, to draw a sample of 414 staff of the universities used for the study, management information system usage and universities effectiveness questionnaire (MISUUEQ) was used to elicit information for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. The findings of the study revealed that there is a relationship between management information system usage and institutional effectiveness in terms of examination conduct, students records keeping, staff appraisal, library services. Based on th...
Previous studies have assessed the relative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social an... more Previous studies have assessed the relative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social and professional support on teacher’s job performance in secondary or higher education. Little or nothing is yet to be known about the effect of these variables on teacher’s job performance at the primary education level. This study is the first to show the relative and cumulative effect of instructional supervision, psycho-social and professional support on teacher’s job performance in primary education. An ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study, with a sample of 965 teachers selected through the proportionate stratified sampling technique. Two instruments – the “Improvement Strategies Questionnaire (ISQ)” and the Teachers’ Effectiveness Scale (TES) were used for data collection. Findings showed a significant effect of all the independent variables partially and jointly on the job performance of primary education teachers. Based on this conclusion, policy implications are...
Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 2012
AbstractThe study examined Enhancing Quality Assurance through Lecturers' Job Performance in ... more AbstractThe study examined Enhancing Quality Assurance through Lecturers' Job Performance in Private and Public Tertiary Institutions in South Eastern Nigeria. Universities in south Eastern Nigeria are experiencing serious decline in academic performance. Recent statistics reveal that poor quality output is increasing despite successive government and non-governmental organizations funding efforts. This paper intends to address this quality performance aspect of tertiary institutions in the areas under study. The population of the study was lecturers of both public and private tertiary institutions. The total sample used for the study was 600 lecturers randomly selected from the targeted population. To analyze the investigation, two null hypotheses were formulated. In pursuit of the objectives of the study a survey research design was adopted. The questionnaire schedule was used. Responses were collated, coded and analyzed using population t-test at an alpha level of 0.05. The q...
Previous studies have documented numerous benefits of using Virtual Labs (VLs) in promoting effec... more Previous studies have documented numerous benefits of using Virtual Labs (VLs) in promoting effective teaching of science subjects. The low level of teachers’ awareness, accessibility, and utilization of VLs in schools is also known. To the researchers’ knowledge, what is yet to be known is the extent of administrators’ awareness, procurement, and management of VLs in schools which have implications on teachers’ accessibility and utilization of VLs. This study adopted a descriptive survey design. A questionnaire (AAPMVLQ), with Cronbach alpha (α = .83), was administered to a sample of 662 secondary school principals and vice-principals drawn from 271 public schools in Cross River State Nigeria. Findings revealed that the level of administrators’ awareness, procurement, and management of VLs in secondary schools is very low. The low level of awareness was attributed to the poor supply of modern facilities to schools in the area of study. While the low levels of procurement and manage...
This study used a structural equation modelling approach to assess the association between employ... more This study used a structural equation modelling approach to assess the association between employee work-life policies, psychological empowerment, and academic staff job commitment in universities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study following a descriptive survey research design. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted in the selection of 315 academic staff from two universities in the study area. “Work-Life Policies, Psychological Empowerment and Job Commitment Questionnaire (WPPEJCQ)” was used as the instrument for data collection. The construct validity of the instrument was ascertained through an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The Kaiser-Meyer-Ohlin of .894 and the Bartlett coefficient of 7795.820 were obtained. Several fit indices of Confirmatory Factor Analysis were used to accept the model such as RMSEA=.031, TLI=.969, CFI=.971 and many others. The null hypotheses were all t...
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between management of Information and Co... more The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between management of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and teachers’ work performance in secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, two research questions and one null hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of 5288 teachers in all the 271 public secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. A sample of 800 teachers was drawn using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. Two instruments titled: Management of Information and Communications Technology Questionnaire (MICTQ) and Teachers’ Work Performance Questionnaire (TWPQ) were used to collect data from the respondents. Data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at .05 level of significance and 798 degrees of freedom. The finding revealed that among the 12 principals’ ICT management practices, ...
This study examined electricity supply prices for political socialization in education and its im... more This study examined electricity supply prices for political socialization in education and its implications for functionality in university education in Cross River State, Nigeria. The study was a descriptive survey research. The population included 942 head of departments in the two public universities located in Cross River State, Nigeria. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents from the universities studied. The instrument designated ‘Electricity Prices For Political Socialization Questionnaire (EPFPSQ)’ was designed to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated and had a reliability co-efficient of 0.853. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentage score. The study revealed that electricity supply prices, through management techniques of cost effectiveness, cost efficiency, access to and control of education moderately empowered the university system for political socialization. Electricity prices showed inadequat...
The main purpose of this study was to find out the influence of principals' innovative behavi... more The main purpose of this study was to find out the influence of principals' innovative behaviour on secondary school teachersâ?? task performance in Cross River State, Nigeria. The Ex-post Facto design was adopted for the study. Two sets of instruments-principals' innovative behaviour questionnaire (PIBQ) and teachers' task performance questionnaire (TTPQ) for teachers and students respectively were developed, validated and used. The (PIBQ) with six items on four-point Likert type scale were administered to 500 teachers while the (TTPQ) made up of 18 items were responded to by 2000 students selected through stratified random sampling technique. The data obtained were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The hypothesis was tested at0.05 level of significance. The major finding of the study showed that there was no significant influence of principals' innovative behaviour on teachers' task behaviour. Based on the above finding, some recommendations were made. Some of which are: (i) the government should encourage principals to initiate ideas that enhance school improvement by removing administrative bottle necks. (ii) Government and school principals should give teachers adequate training before introducing any novel ideas. This will enhance their skills and forestall the fear of the unknown that causes resistance to change.
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