Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the school manager’s practices adopted by
school managers in Senior High Schools in Greater Accra and their effects on
students’ academic performance. The work also aimed at finding out the effectiveness
or ineffectiveness of the practices of public-Senior High School managers in Greater
Accra so that one could predict the nature of effectiveness of public Senior High
Schools’ managers performance in Ghana. The philosophical underpinning of the
study was positivism. The study employed quantitative research approach and
adopted descriptive survey design. The population of study were school managers,
teachers and students of Greater Accra public Senior High Schools (SHS). Systematic
sampling technique was used to sample the respondents. The study employed
questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. Data collected comprised of 376
respondents: 10 school mangers, 96 teachers and 266 students, Also, 100 students test
results in public SHS in Greater. Cronbach alpha was used to test the reliability of the
instrument. The work also tested for face validity, content validity and criterion
validity. Quantitative technique was used to analyse the data. Descriptive data were
analysed using means, frequencies and percentages and the hypothesis were tested
using Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple regression. The study found
in the descriptive analysis that school managers practice of instructional supervision
practice, building positive school climate and teacher professional development
practice were major contributory practices that ensured students' academic
performance in public SHS in Greater Accra region. Hypothesis three however, found
that there was a low negative significant correlation between school managers’
practice of building positive school climate and students, academic performance.
Though the opinion of the respondents agreed that school managers, practices of
instructional supervision, teacher professional development and creating positive
school climate were effective, the results from correlation analysis found SM
practices low and negative with their relationship with students' academic
performance.in SHS in Greater Accra Region. The regression analysis found that the
combine effect of the three main variables gave a p-value of 0.024 less than the
Significant p-value of 0.05. This indicating that there is a significant relationship
between school managers' practices and students, academic performance
Description:
A thesis in the Department of Educational Administration and Management, Faculty of Educational Studies, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy (Educational Administration and Management) in the University of Education, Winneba
JULY, 2021