School Infrastructural Quality and Principals’ Administrative Job Performance in Secondary Schools in Cross River State, Nigeria

The study investigated schools’ infrastructural quality and principals’ administrative job performance in secondary schools in Cross River State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for the study using the stratified random sampling technique; a sample of 184 principals was drawn from a population of 245 principals covering the entire public schools in the study area. Six (6) teachers were selected from each of the one hundred and eighty four (184) sampled secondary schools, this brought the total sample to one thousand, two hundred and eighty eight (1,288) principals and teachers to assess school quality and principals’ administrative job performance. Data collection was carried out with the researchers ‘developed questionnaire titled: School Infrastructural Quality and Principals Administrative Job Performance Questionnaire (SIQPAJPQ). The instrument was face validated, while the reliability coefficient done after a sample of 20 copies of the instrument was administered and analyzed using the Cronbach alpha method. The reliability estimates range from 0.77-0.89 which was considered high enough to justify the use of the instrument for the study. The data were analyzed using one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). The findings indicated that school infrastructural qualities significantly influence principals’ administrative job performance in terms of planning, organizing, coordinating and directing. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government should provide and maintain infrastructural facilities in public secondary schools to enhance principals’ administrative job performance.