Emmanuel Usoudo Umoetuk, Jamestina Adaora Boc-Ifeobu, Alice Abonjia Kulo & Egbai Inyang Ekpor
Abstract
The persistent and increasing rate of poor administration of secondary schools seem to indicate the level of principals’ communication gaps which is expected to promote administrative effectiveness. The study investigated principals’ communication gap involving school facilities and school records and administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools. The design was a Correlational research design. Population comprised all principals, vice principals and teachers in the 15 public secondary schools in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State with a sample of 76 respondents selected by simple random sampling technique. Researchers-developed instruments titled “Principals’ Communication Gap Questionnaire” (PCGQ) and “Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire” (AEQ) were used to collect data with a reliability of 0.91 and 0.89 respectively. Correlation analysis was used to answer two research questions and test the two hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that there was a significant strong positive relationship between principals’ communication gap involving school facilities and school records and administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that school principals should always communicate every needed information to the students and teachers so as to make them informed for effective administration.