COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE STUDENTS’ PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ADOPTED BY PRINCIPALS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE
Abstract
This researcher investigated the students’ personnel management practices adopted by principals for administration of public and private secondary schools in Abia State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 16,033 respondents made up of 254 principals and 10,939 SS 2 students of public secondary schools and 727 principals and 4,113 SS 2 students of private secondary schools in Abia State. The sample for the study was 853 respondents drawn using proportionate random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a researcher-developed questionnaire titled “Principals’ Student Personnel Management Practices for School Administration Rating Scale (PSPMPSARS)’’. The instrument was subjected to face validation by five experts made up of three experts in Educational Management and Planning as well as the two experts in Measurement and Evaluation. Cronbach Alpha which was used for test of the internal consistency of the instrument yielded overall coefficient of 0.84. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that deliberation on the requirements for admission, advertising the sale of admission forms, reviewing the qualifications of applicants, shortlisting and conducting entrance examinations for eligible applicants, offer admission to candidates who successfully pass entrance examinations, register and placement of successful candidates in classes were the admission practices adopted by principals for administration of public and private secondary schools in Abia State. It was also found out that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings of public and private secondary school principals and students on the guidance and counselling practices they adopt.Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that State Ministry of Education should develop admission handbook and distribute to principals to guide them in applying admission practices to maintain standard and uniformity in selecting students to be admitted in secondary schools in the study.
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