Principals’ Climate Change Supportive Administrative Services for Effective Classroom Management in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Anambra State

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse the climate change supportive administrative services provided by principals for effective classroom management in public and private secondary schools in Anambra State. The area of this study is Anambra state and the descriptive survey research design was used. There are six education zones namely Aguata, Awka, Nnewi, Ogidi, Onitsha, and Otuocha education zones. The population for this study comprised 15,990 respondents made up of 6,293 teachers in the 256 public secondary schools and 9,697 teachers in the 481 registered private secondary schools in Anambra state. The sample size for this study is 852 teachers. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was subjected to face validation using three experts who are lecturers. The reliability of the instrument was established using 100 teachers (50 in private secondary schools and 50 in public secondary schools) in 20 secondary schools in Enugu state. Cronbach alpha method was used to determine reliability of the items because the instrument is homogeneously structured. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.74. The instrument was administered on the respondents directly by the researchers with the help of eight research assistants who are teachers in the various schools sampled. All the 852 copies of the questionnaire were correctly filled and retrieved. They were collated and subjected to statistical analysis. Data collected were analyzed using mean ratings to answer the research questions and t- test to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.