GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

A school administrator is one who oversees the affairs of the school by directing, managing and executing the plans of education in order to attain the goals and objectives of education. This the administrators can accomplish through effective communication and management ability. The study sought to investigate the extent to which the administrators’ communication ability predicts effective management of public secondary schools in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State. An Expost-Facto research design was used for this study. The research area was Eket Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, the population of this study comprised of one thousand one hundred and fifthy-two (1152) teachers distributed into 63 public secondary schools in seven local education committees in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State. A stratified random sampling technique was used to draw the five hundred and seventy-seven (577) teachers. The main instrument used in this study was questionnaire titled “ADMINISTRATORS’ COMMUNICATION ABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE (ACAQ) and SECONDARY SCHOOL EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (SSEMQ).” The instrument passed through face and content validated by the experts in test and measurement. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument, the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.75 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study was appropriate analyzed using Simple Regression Analysis technique. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study concluded that administrators’ communication ability predicts effective decision making and planning of public schools in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State. It was recommended amongst others that secondary school administrators’ should make use of participatory decision making style in the school because it will encourage staff to contribute their ideas for the smooth running of the school.