INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Abstract

The objectives of secondary schools can be pedagogically summarized as developing cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of students. However, the extent of the achievement of these objectives has not been to the expected level. This may niot be unconnected with the the level of adoption of integrated management system within the school by the administrators. Thus this study investigate the relationship between integrated management system and school effectiveness in private secondary schools, Kwara State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted by the researcher to carry out this study. The target population of this study included 3119 teachers in all the private secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 346 out of 3119 teachers in private secondary schools, Kwara State using Research Advisor Table. An Adapted questionnaire titled ‘Integrated Management System and School Effectiveness Questionnaire (IMSSEQ)’ was used to obtain data from the teachers. Cronbach’s Alpha measure of internal consistency was used to generate the reliability of the questionnaires and reliability coefficients of 0.71 and 0.69 were generated for part A and B. Descriptive statistics of mean was used to answer the three research questions raised to guide the study while inferential statistics of Pearson product-moment correlation (PPMC) statistics was used to test all the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that: the level of integrated management system in private secondary schools, Kwara State was high; the level of school effectiveness with mean score 3.48 was high in private secondary schools, Kwara State;there was a significant relationship between integrated management system and school effectiveness in private secondary schools, Kwara State.Based on the findings of this study, the recommendations, among others, were that efforts should be made to maintain the level of information management system in private secondary schools, Kwara State; the level of school effectiveness in schools should be maintained and sustained; and Quality integrated management system in terms of health, environment, and quality management should be sustained while efforts should be made to further improve information management system to further improve level of schools effectiveness.

Keywords: Integrated Management System; School Effectiveness; Information Management                  System; Quality Management System; Health Management System.