Perceived Influence of School Supervision on the Management of Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers East Senatorial District, Rivers State

Abstract

This study investigated perceived influence of school supervision on the management of public senior secondary schools in Rivers East Senatorial District, Rivers State, using three research questions and three hypotheses. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The total population was 198 respondents consisting of 107 principals and 91 supervisors from all public senior secondary schools and zonal offices in Rivers East Senatorial District, Rivers State. A sample size of 198 respondents was selected through census sampling technique. The instrument for the study was a self-structured questionnaire titled “Perceived Influence of School Supervision on the Management of Public Senior Secondary Schools Questionnaire” which was validated by experts in the Departments of Measurement and Evaluation and Educational Management; while Cronbach Alpha was used to achieve reliability indexes of 0.86, 0.81 and 0.78. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while z-test was used in testing the formulated null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that school managers should maintain a cordial relationship with the communities that play host to them in order to facilitate smooth operations of the schools under their leadership, school facilities should be properly managed for them to remain functional and serve the purpose for which they were procured for.