ADMINISTRATORS’ SUPERVISORY SKILLS AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ILORIN METROPOLIS, KWARA STATE

Abstract

 
Administrators’ supervisory skills have enabled the school principals to work towards the attainment of educational 
goals with the support of teachers’ job performance. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between 
administrators’ supervisory skills and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Ilorin 
Metropolis, Kwara State.  The objectives of the study were to:  (i) examine administrators’ supervisory skills in 
public senior secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State; (ii) determine the  level of teachers’ job 
performance in public senior secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State; and (iii) investigate the 
relationship between administrators’ supervisory skills and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary 
schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. The research design was descriptive survey of the correlational type.  
Proportional sampling technique using Research – Advisors (2006) sample size was adopted to select 365 teachers 
and all the 45 school principals in public senior secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis. Therefore, 350 respondents 
were used for study comprising of school teachers and principals.  Two set of instruments were used for this study 
and entitled Administrators’ Supervisory Skills Questionnaire and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire. The 
instruments were validated by three experts in the Department of Educational Management and Counselling.  Two 
research questions were raised for the study and answered using descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean 
scores and standard deviation.  The main research hypothesis and four operational research hypotheses formulated 
were tested using inferential statistics of Pearson product moment correlation statistic at 0.05 level of significance. 
The findings of this study were; all the administrators’ supervisory skills were adopted by principals in public senior 
secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State, The level of teachers’ job performance in public senior 
secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State was moderate.  There was significant relationship between 
administrators’ supervisory skills and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Ilorin 
Metropolis, Kwara State (p-value .000 < significant level .05). There was significant relationship between 
administrators’ financial supervisory skill and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Ilorin 
Metropolis, Kwara State (p-value . 000 < significant level .05). Significant relationship existed between 
administrators’ physical facilities supervisory skill and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools 
in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State (p-value . 000  < significant level .05). There was significant relationship between 
administrators’ interpersonal relationship skill and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in 
Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State (p-value . 000 < significant level .05). Based on these findings, it was recommended 
among others that administrators must endeavour to keep a high level of professional spirit and good moral standard 
of the schools in order to adopt their administrative skills to situations by sustaining good working environment for 
teachers and other staff in their schools.  Administrators should ensure that they are diligent and honesty in financial 
supervisory towards the school effectiveness.