Principals’ Human Capital Development Pract...

Principals’ Human Capital Development Practices For Teachers’ Retention in Public Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State

Author Name : Nwanga Sunday Aligwe, Unachukwu Glad O

ABSTRACT

The study determined the principals’ human capital development practices for teachers’ retention in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised 4,379 respondents made up of 233 principals and 4,146 teachers in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Multistage sampling procedure was used to draw sample size of 893 respondents made up of 47 principals and 846 teachers. The instrument for data collection was researcher-developed questionnaire titled ‘‘Principals’ Human Capital Development Practices for Teachers Retention Questionnaire (PHCDPTRQ)’’. The instrument was validated by three experts comprising two lecturers from the Department of Educational Management and Policy, and the other a specialist in Measurement and Evaluation all from the Faculty of Education, NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka.Cronbach alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.78 and 0.81 for clusters I and II respectively with overall coefficient of 0.80. The researcher together with five research assistants collected data for the study using the direct approach method and 98% return was recorded. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while t-test was used in testing the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that orientation practices are applied by principals for teachers’ retention in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. It was also found out that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings of principals and teachers on the mentoring practices of principals for teachers’ retention in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that school principals should constitute a committee saddled with the statutorily responsibility of providing a comprehensive and formalized framework for the coordinating and organizing annual orientation programmes for teachers.

Keywords: Principals, HumanCapital, Development, Orientation, Mentroing, Teachers’ retention