School Discipline, Reward System and Administrative Efficacy of Principals in Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

The principal as an administrative officer has the duty of providing professional guidance and assistance to teachers for the improvement of their instructional delivery. The study seeks to ascertain the correlation between the discipline of schools, the system of rewards, and the efficacy of administrative practices implemented by principals in secondary schools in Uyo, Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The chosen research design was a correlation research design. The population consisted of all 374 members of the teaching staff in 15 public secondary schools in the study area. A sample comprising 76 teachers was selected from three schools chosen at random. The technique employed for this purpose was simple random sampling. A researcher made instrument, titled "Principals Administrative Efficacy Questionnaire" (PAEQ), was employed for data collection. The reliability of the PAEQ was determined to be 0.89 through the use of Cronbach Alpha Statistics. To test the two hypotheses, Pearson product moment correlation statistics was employed at p≤0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study indicated that there exists a weak positive correlation between school discipline, the reward system, and the administrative efficacy of principals in secondary schools. As a result, it was concluded that a relationship does exist between school discipline, the reward system, and the administrative efficacy of principals in secondary schools. Based on the findings, it is recommended that principals of schools should give due consideration to matters pertaining to school discipline and actively promote the reward system as a means of achieving effective administration.