RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY IN GOVERNMENT OWNED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined resource management for quality instructional service delivery in government-owned secondary schools in South–South, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The sample for the study was made up of 9300 respondents, made up of 300 principals and 9000 teachers drawn from a population of 43,131 respondents (1275 principals and 41.856 teachers) from the 1275 government-owned secondary schools in South–South, Nigeria. The sample for the study was randomly selected from the government-owned Secondary Schools in the State that make up the South–South region, namely Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, and Cross Rivers State. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while the null hypotheses were tested using the t-test statistic. The research instrument was tested for reliability with the use of the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, which produced a coefficient index of 0.81. Both null hypotheses were accepted. The study's result therefore reveals that school administrators' methods for human and financial resources management significantly determine quality instructional service delivery in schools. It was recommended that school administrators should adequately manage resources in schools (human and financial) for quality instructional service delivery and also to avoid wastages.