School Administrators’ Leadership and Communication Skills for Effective Secondary School Administration in Rivers State

ABSTRACT
This study examined school administrators’ leadership and communication
skills for effective secondary school administration in Rivers State. Two (2)
research questions and 2 hypotheses were answered and tested in the study,
respectively. The design for the study was the descriptive survey. The population
of the study was the 245 public secondary schools in Rivers, with a teacher
population of 8196, from which 414 (representing 5%) of the total in the
population) were selected as the sample, using the stratified random sampling
technique. Respondents of the research responded to a validated 20-item
instrument, titled ‘School Administrators’ Leadership and Communication Skills
for Effective School Administration Scale’ (SALCSESAS), designed by the
researchers in the modified 4-point Likert Scale model, with a reliability co-
efficient of 0.81. Mean and standard deviations were used in answering the
research questions while z.test statistics were performed and used in testing the
hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.