SCHOOL CLIMATE AS CORRELATE OF ADMINISTRATIVE JOB PERFORMANCE OF PRINCIPALS IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE

ABSTRACT

This study investigated school climate as correlate of administrative job performance of principals in public senior secondary school in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Six research questions were raised to guide the study, two were answered and four were hypothesized and tested at 0.05 significant level. The study was a descriptive survey research thsat adopted the correlational design. The population for this study comprised four hundred and sixteen (416) senior secondary school teachers from the fourteen (14) public senior secondary schools in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The sample comprised 217 teachers who were randomly selected from 7 schools for the study. The instrument was a questionnaire tagged “School climate and administrative job performance of principals’ Questionnaire”. The reliability of the instrument was established at 0.76 using Crobach Alpha which indicated that the instrument was reliable. The data collected were analyzed using the descriptive mean and standard deviation for the research questions. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test hypothesis 1 while Fisher-Z statistics was used to test hypotheses 2, 3 and 4. The findings revealed that the administrative job performance of public secondary school principals in Oredo Local Government area was high with a grand mean of 47.87 against a criterion of 42.5 and standard deviation of 7.14. The study revealed that the prevalent school climate in Oredo Local Government Area Public xii Secondary Schools are warm, friendly, open and democratic school climate. All of them had a mean score above the interpretative norm of 12.50. The most prevalent is open school climate (14.54) followed by friendly (14.13) and warm school climate (13.90) while the least is democratic school climate (13.32). It was recommended among others that principals should continue to sustain warm, friendly, open and democratic school climate in public secondary schools in Oredo local government area. Principals should improve on democratic school climate in their schools because of the inherent benefits of a democratic setting.