APPRAISAL OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF THE TEACHING SERVICE COMMISSIONS IN NORTH CENTRAL ZONE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

This study appraised the management practices of the Teaching Service Commissions in North Central zone, Nigeria. Five research questions and five null hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was all 1228 principals and all the 3015 senior administrative staff of the Teaching Service Commissions. Multi-stage sampling procedure and simple random sampling technique were adopted for selecting 787 respondents comprising 247 secondary school principals and 540 senior administrative staff. A 40-item questionnaire and 32 interview schedule questions were the instruments used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by experts. The overall reliability co-efficient obtained was 0.93. The mean ratings and standard deviation (SD) were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the Teaching Service Co...