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American Journal of Arts and Communication
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025): March- April
Original Articles

PRINCIPALS’ INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

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  • Obidile, Stella Ogechukwu (PhD)
Obidile, Stella Ogechukwu (PhD)
Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra State
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15341181

Published 2025-05-05

Keywords

  • Instructional leadership competency,
  • principals,
  • effective management of secondary school.

How to Cite

Obidile, S. O. (2025). PRINCIPALS’ INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE. American Journal of Arts and Communication, 10(2), 28–41. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15341181

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Abstract

This study determined the principals’ instructional leadership competency and effective management of secondary schools in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. Related literature pertinent to the study were reviewed which exposed the need for the study. Correlational research design was adopted using a population of all the 263 principals of public secondary schools in the area of the study. The entire population was used as the sample size since the population is a manageable size and the respondents were adequately reached. The instrument for data collection was researcher’s structured questionnaire. Cronbach Alpha method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument. The overall reliability indexes obtained were 0.81, 0.79 and 0.83. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significant. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze data collected. The results showed that there is an average positive relationship between principals’ instructional leadership competency (monitoring of instruction and promotion of professional development) and effective management of secondary schools in Anambra State. The results also showed that there is a significant relationship between principals’ instructional leadership competency (monitoring of instruction and promotion of professional development) and effective management of secondary schools. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should always have routine instructional supervision taking into cognizance the effective classroom management strategies, lesson preparation and delivery as well as class interaction.

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