ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN PUBLIC JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE.

Abstract

The main aim of this study was examined the influence of organizational structure and teacher effectiveness in public junior secondary schools in Rivers State. Descriptive survey research designed was used for this study. This study was carried out in Rivers State. The population of this study was 203 business studies teachers in public junior secondary schools. The study adopted census sampling technique since the population is of manageable size. The instrument was validated by three experts, two from the Department of Business Education and one from Measurement and Evaluation in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education for face and contents validations. The reliability of the instrument was determined using test retest method which yielded reliability indices of 0.83 and 0.84 respectively. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while pearson product moment correlation was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that, the respondents agreed, that there is moderate relationship between organizational structure and teacher effectiveness among business studies teachers in public junior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was therefore recommended among others that effort should be made for the establishing good working environment such as the provision of good physical facilities, improve working policies and good welfare for workers in order to enhance their teaching in public junior secondary schools in Rivers State.