Principals’ Leadership Quality Assurance Practices and Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Kogi State, Nigeria

This study investigated principals’ leadership quality assurance practices and teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Kogi State, Nigeria. The research design was a descriptive survey design. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 15 male and 15 female principals, 120 male and 120 female teachers in 30 senior secondary schools in Kogi State. Five research questions and one null hypothesis were raised to guide the study. Two research instruments titled Principals’ Quality Assurance Practices Questionnaire” (PQAPQ) and “Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire” (TJPQ) were used to collect data for the study. The instruments were validated and Pilot test was used to determine their reliability which yielded index values of 0.76 and 0.72 respectively. Mean score and standard deviation were used to answer research questions and Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that there was a low practice of monitoring and evaluation of teachers in public senior secondary schools in Kogi state, however supervision was highly practiced. The most preferred quality assurance practice among principals in Kogi state was monitoring practice. Again, the study revealed a high level of teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Kogi state. There was a significant relationship between principals’ quality assurance practices and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Kogi state. It was therefore recommended among others that principals should put in more efforts in monitoring and evaluating teachers for the purpose of achieving high teacher job performance and also principal should not relent in supervising their teachers if they want to achieve performance. This implies that, government should provide principals the opportunities to attend workshops, seminars and conferences regularly so as to expose them to current global trends in monitoring and evaluation practice for promoting teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Kogi.

Keywords: Leadership, Quality Assurance and Job Performance