Author: Udang, Joseph Akor

Abstract: The study investigated the relationship between principals’ supervision techniques and teachers’ job effectiveness in public secondary schools in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. An Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study. The sample was hundred (100) teachers including the principals from the population of ten (10) schools out of twenty-three (23) public secondary schools in the study area. To achieve the purpose of the study, three research questions and three research hypotheses were formulated. Data collection was carried out with the use of two research instruments titled “Principals’ Supervision Questionnaire Techniques (PSTQ)” and “Teachers’ Job Effectiveness Questionnaire (TJEQ)”. The instruments were subjected to face validity, and had a reliability index of 0.71 to 0.82 Pearson product moment correlation analysis was used for data analysis at 0.05 significance. The result obtained revealed that, a significant relationship exist between principals’ supervision techniques in terms of classroom visitation/conference with teachers, facilities, and among other teachers’ job effectiveness of teachers. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the job effectiveness of teachers would be enhanced when they are properly supervised by the principals using the various supervisory techniques. Also, recommendations were made that, the government should ensure that only those qualified be allowed to participate in supervision jobs, and more supervisory resources should be provided by the government to enable principals to promote teachers’ job effectiveness.

Keywords: Supervisory techniques, Teachers, Job, Effectiveness, Secondary Schools