Volume 23, Issue 1, May 2016, Pages 28–33
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA1
1 Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Original language: English
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This study aimed at determining the relationship between principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ indiscipline in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study. Two sets of questionnaire, the Principals’ Leadership Style Descriptive Questionnaire (PLSDQ) and the Teachers’ Indiscipline Descriptive Questionnaire (TIDQ) were constructed by the researcher, and they were validated by three experts. Descriptive Survey design was adopted. A sample size of 120 teachers was used. Mean score and pearson product moment correlation were used to provide answers to the research questions. The findings indicated that there was a positive relationship between the principal leadership styles namely autocratic and democratic leadership style with teachers’ indiscipline. This relationship was significant for teachers of different years of experience. Recommendations were finally made for an improvement.
Author Keywords: Leadership Styles, Teachers’ Indiscipline, Secondary Schools, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA1
1 Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This study aimed at determining the relationship between principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ indiscipline in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study. Two sets of questionnaire, the Principals’ Leadership Style Descriptive Questionnaire (PLSDQ) and the Teachers’ Indiscipline Descriptive Questionnaire (TIDQ) were constructed by the researcher, and they were validated by three experts. Descriptive Survey design was adopted. A sample size of 120 teachers was used. Mean score and pearson product moment correlation were used to provide answers to the research questions. The findings indicated that there was a positive relationship between the principal leadership styles namely autocratic and democratic leadership style with teachers’ indiscipline. This relationship was significant for teachers of different years of experience. Recommendations were finally made for an improvement.
Author Keywords: Leadership Styles, Teachers’ Indiscipline, Secondary Schools, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
How to Cite this Article
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA, “RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP STYLES AND TEACHERS’ INDISCIPLINE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EBONYI STATE OF NIGERIA,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 28–33, May 2016.
