Deregulation of Staff Personnel and Quality Assurance in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers State.

Abstract

The study examined deregulation of staff personnel and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. The study adopted the correlational design as the working design. The population comprised 247 principals from the 247 public secondary schools in Rivers State and a sample size of 185 principals drawn with multistage sampling approach representing 75% of principals. The principals responded to two structured validated instruments titled Deregulation of Staff Personnel Questionnaire (DSPQ) and Quality Assurance Questionnaire (QAQ) designed by the researcher. The reliability coefficient of the instrument using cronbach alpha method was 0.83. Simple regression was used to answer the research question while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test the null hypotheses. Findings of the study showed that deregulation of staff personnel predicted 9.50% of quality assurance in public secondary schools and there was a significant contribution between deregulation of staff personnel and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. It was concluded that deregulation of staff personnel predicts 9.50% of teachers’ performance in secondary schools in Rivers State. The remaining 90.50% cannot be accounted by deregulation of staff personnel. There was also a significant contribution between deregulation of staff personnel and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. It was therefore recommended that individuals should be made to understand the importance of deregulation in secondary schools as that will bring about quality assurance in secondary schools in Rivers State.