MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AS PREDICTORS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN CALABAR EDUCATION ZONE OF CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Educational Resources, Physical Resources, Human Resource, EffectivenessAbstract
This study investigated management of educational resources as predictor of secondary school
effectiveness in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. The research design adopted in
this study was a correlation design. The population and sample of this study were 97 and 50 public
secondary school respectively. An instrument for data collection was developed by the researcher and
was entitled; “Management of Educational Resource and Secondary School Effectiveness
Questionnaire (MERSSEQ)” To establish the reliability of the instrument, the researchers
administered a test 50 teachers who were not involved in the study. The reliability indices of the
instrument ranged from 0.82 to 0.88, As such, the instrument was justified suitable to be used for data
collection. The data collected were coded and analyzed using simple linear regression. The result of
the analysis indicated that management of educational resources in terms of physical and human
resources significantly predict secondary school effectiveness in such areas as monitoring of
students’ academic progress and conducive teaching and learning environment Calabar Education
Zone of Cross River State. Based on the results of the analysis, one of the recommendations was that,
principals of public secondary schools should ensure improvement in the management of their
respective schools’ physical resources in order to enhance secondary school effectiveness in the area
of provision conducive learning environment for effective teaching and learning processes.