Quality Secondary School Administration and Economic Development of Cross River State

Abstract

The study aimed at finding out the relationship between quality secondary school administration and economic development of Cross River State. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 232 Principals from the 232 public secondary schools in the three Educational Zones in Cross River State. The 232 principals were purposively used as sample for the study. Three null hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled "Quality Secondary school Administration and Economic Development Questionnaire QSSAEDQ). The instrument was subjected to face validity and reliability test using Test-Retest method and was found reliable at 0.75 r_value. Pearson Product Moment correlation Statistics (r) was used for data analysis at 0.05 level of significance. Result obtained revealed that there is a significant relationship between Facilities administration, student personnel administration, knowledge management and economic development in Nigeria. Based on this result, it was recommended that school heads should ensure effective administration of school facilities, student personnel, as well as efficient knowledge management, to attain secondary Education goals, which would engender economic development of the state.