Teachers Commitment for the Administration of Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated teachers’ commitment for the administration of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Design adopted for this study was descriptive survey research design. Population of the study was 7425 teachers (3854 males and 3571 females) while 380 teachers (198 male and 182 female) were sampled for the study using multistage sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was a 26 item questionnaire titled “Teachers Commitment for School Administration Questionnaire” (TCSAQ). The instrument was validated by three experts; two in Measurement and Evaluation and one in Educational Management. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument with an index of 0.86 which was considered sufficient for the study. The research questions were answered using mean and rank order while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study showed a high level commitment to teachers work and students academic performance for the administration of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was recommended that the government should endeavour to provide sufficient educational resources to promote teachers commitment.

Keywords: Teachers, Commitment, Administration, Secondary Schools, Rivers State

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-16-07

Publication date:June 30^th 2021