LIMITATION TO ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

This study was carried out to find out the constraints to administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals in Enugu State. Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The area of the study in Enugu state. The population for the study consists of 11,374 secondary school teachers and 287 principals. The researcher used proportionate, stratified random sampling technique to sample 10% of the total population of teachers which is (1109) and the entire principal for the study.  The research Instrument was given to three experts for face and content validation. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The researcher then used Cronbach Alpha reliability estimate to analyze the data , the reliability co-efficients obtained was 0.73. For data analysis, mean scores of the respondents were used to answer the research questions. The findings revealed that; To a great extent poor planning of school activities constitute constraints to administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals as opined by the respondents. To a low extent, parent influences constitute constraints to administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals as opined by the respondents. To a great extent inadequate funding constitute constraints to administrative effectiveness of secondary school principals as opined by the respondents. It was recommended among others that; Seminars, conferences, and workshop should be organized by government and non-governmental agency to educate school principals on the importance of quality planning of school activities to ensure effective achievement of educational goals.