Influence of principals’ management practices on teacher professional performance in secondary schools in Bungoma County, Kenya
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Date
2023-11
Authors
Nyongesa, Rose Nekesa
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Kenyatta university
Abstract
The school principal plays a pivotal role in improving a school’s performance thus there is the need to ensure that the principal has the skills needed in management to undertake their duties effectively. The principal’s ability to exhibit effective management practices is vital to determining teacher performance. Influenced by the low performance in KCSE results in Bungoma North Sub-County compared to the entire Bungoma County in the past years, the purpose of this study was to determine the influence of secondary schools principals’ management practices on teacher performance in Bungoma North sub-county. The study objectives were based on determining the influence of principal’s feedback mechanisms on teacher professional performance, to explore the influence of professional development on teacher professional performance, to assess the extent to which principals’ teacher support influences teacher professional performance, and to establish ways in which principal’s teacher motivation schemes influence teacher professional performance in Bungoma North Sub County. The Instructional Leadership Theory guided this research study and a descriptive survey design was used to collect and analyse data. The study targeted 27 principals and 737 teachers from the public secondary schools in the Bungoma North sub-county. A complete census of all the principals in the 27 secondary schools was considered in the study, and teachers were sampled using both the purposive and random sampling technique to make up a total of 69 teachers. Primary data were gathered using self-administered questionnaires for both the teachers and principals. The survey instrument’s validity was determined using content and face validity, whereas Cronbach Alpha was used to determine their reliability. SPSS version 24 was used to organize data where frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation, Chi square and ANOVA were used to measure the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Inferential statistics from correlation and regression analysis were used to establish the direction and strength of the relationship between teacher professional performance and principal’s management practices. The results of the analysis showed that principal’s management practices account for 62.1 % of teacher’s professional performance (R²= .621). An increase in principal management practices by one unit resulted in an increase in teacher performance by 0.424 units therefore the principal management practices significantly influenced the professional performance of the teachers. The study concluded that the principal management practices adopted by principals in Bungoma North Sub County significantly influenced the performance of the teachers
Description
A research thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of masters of education (educational administration) in the school of education and lifelong learning of Kenyatta University, November 2023
Keywords
principals, management practices, teacher professional performance, secondary schools, Bungoma County, Kenya