Abstract:
The study sought to investigate school plant maintenance as a determinant of secondary school principals’ effectiveness in Afikpo education zone of Ebonyi State. Five purposes, five research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was ex-post-facto research design. The study was carried out in secondary schools in Afikpo Education Zone of Ebonyi State. The population of the study was 1,017 comprising of all the 79 principals and 938 teachers of post primary schools in the study area. The sample for the study was 270 respondents representing 27% of the population, drawn using a proportionate stratified sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into two parts. Part I was titled “School Plant Maintenance Questionnaire (SPMQ)” and part II was titled “EffectiveSchool Administration Questionnaire (ESAQ)”. The questionnaire has a total of 72 items. The questionnaire was structured on a four- point rating scale of Very Great Extent (VGE) 4 points Great Extent (GE) 3 points Very Low Extent (VLE) 2 points and Low Extent (LE) 1 point Three experts validated the instrument. The overall reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.89. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was used in answering the research questions that guided the study, while Multiple Regression Analysis was used to test the 3 null hypotheses at 0.05 probability level. The result of the study showed that: there exist a positive relationship between principals’ transformational leadership and school plant maintenance to a great extent there is a positive relationship between teachers’ instructional behaviours and school plant maintenance, to a great extent and there is significant relationship (p<0 .05="" a="" academic="" achievement="" achieving="" among="" and="" appointed="" as="" be="" before="" behaviours="" between="" concluded="" could="" development.="" div="" effective="" enhance="" exist="" for="" goal="" instructional="" is="" it="" leadership="" looked="" maintenance.="" maintenance="" national="" of="" other="" others="" out="" p="" plant="" positive="" principal="" principals="" qualities="" recommended="" relationship="" s="" school="" should="" significant="" since="" students="" teacher="" teachers="" that="" the="" there="" things="" those="" towards="" transformational="" was="">
