Accommodative Strategies and School Administrator’s Managerial Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom South-South Senatorial District

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between Accommodative Strategies and School Administrator’s Managerial effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom South-south Senatorial district. In order to achieve the purpose of this study three purposes, three research questions were raise and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The sub-variables of the study which were self-regulation, emotional adjustment, and communication adjustment and administrators’ managerial effectiveness were reviewed under conceptual framework and empirical studies, the sample size consisted of 77 respondents representing the population of 95 drawn using simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a structured closed ended questionnaire title, Accommodative Strategies Questionnaire (ASQ) and Administrators Managerial Effectiveness Questionnaire (AMEQ). The reliability of the instrument was established by using the data from trial testing procedure which yielded .76, which showed that the instrument was reliable to be used in the study. Research questions and hypotheses were answered using PPMC (Pearson Product Moment Correlation) analyses at .05 level of significant. The findings of the study revealed that accommodative strategies such as self-regulation, emotional adjustment and communication adjustment relate significantly to the school administrators’ managerial effectiveness in secondary school students in Akwa Ibom South-South senatorial district. The findings of this study would contribute to knowledge in the sense that, researchers in different places and times would likely used as reference document conducted further studies on related issue.