PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF PRINCIPALS AS PREDICTOR OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

The study investigated participatory management practice of principals as predictor of good governance and security in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlation research design was employed for the study. The population of the study comprised 5,286 teachers in the 262 public secondary schools in Anambra State. Three sets of instruments titled ?Participatory Management Practice Questionnaire (PMPQ), Good Governance Scale (GGS) and School Security Scale (SSS) were used for data collection. The instruments were duly validated by three experts in Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The instruments were subjected to test of internal consistency using Cronbach alpha which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.82, 0.78 and 0.77 for PMPQ, GGS and SSS irrespectively. The data collected were analyzed using simple regression to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that participatory management practices of principals is a strong predictor of good governance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. It was also found out that participatory management practices of principals is a significant predictor of security in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should organize quarterly interactive sessions on education stakeholder to get variety of opinions on measures to improve school governance and security.

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