IMPACT OF SCHOOL INSPECTION AND TEACHER JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA, NIGERIA
Abstract
The study investigated the impact of school inspection on teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Abuja, Nigeria. Two research questions and hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The research design that guided the study was the cross-sectional survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 2474 staff drawn from 81 public secondary schools in Abuja. The sample size of the study consisted of 693 respondents. The researcher developed an instrument for data collection from the respondents. The instrument was tagged ‘Questionnaire on School Inspection and Teacher Job Performance’ (QSITJP). Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Pearson’s product moment correlation was employed to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that there was a significant impact of full-general inspection on teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Abuja and there was a significant impact of subject-based inspection on teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Abuja. The study recommended that the Federal Capital Territory Secondary Education Board should mandate all quality assurance officers in Abuja to submit the reports of their full-general inspection activities monthly to help the board develop strategies on how to strengthen the identified teachers’ weak areas to enable them to perform their teaching job effectively.
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