Professionalism and Educators Job Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State Nigeria

Abstract

This study looked at the linkage between professionalism and educators job effectiveness in public secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria. Descriptive research of a correlational design was espoused. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to sample 397 study participants, which made up of 45 principals, 135 vice principals and 217 heads of departments in 45 public secondary schools. Data were collected with the use of structured instrument titled: “Educators’ Professionalism and Job Effectiveness Assessment Questionnaire” (EPJEAQ). Descriptive tools such as mean and standard deviation, as well as and inferential statistics of Pearson product moment correlation were utilized to statistically analyse the collected data. The main finding of the study revealed that, the level of educators’ professionalism dimensions is moderate (GM = 2.77), while their level of job effectiveness was moderate (GM = 2.82) too. Findings also revealed that, overall professionalism dimensions had significant relationship with educators’ job effectiveness (r = .928; df = 386; p<0.05). Particularly, professionalism dimensions of professional relationship (r = 0.289; p<0.05), development (r = 0.261; p<0.05), knowledge (r = 0.253; p<0.05), ethics (r = 0.246; p<0.05), and commitment (r = 0.239; p<0.05) were moderately correlated with educators’ job effectiveness, while professional accountability had low significant association with educators’ job effectiveness. This suggests that, members of the school management team (principals, vice-principals and H.O.Ds) should be familiar with the role of professionalism in improving educators scholarly knowledge, good organizational standards, career development, organizational commitment, congenial work relationship, and answerability for optimum efficiency, and higher level effectiveness.

Keywords: Educators, Job Effectiveness, Professionalism Dimension