School management as a determinant of quality education in selected private secondary schools in Mfoundi Division

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the influence school management has on quality education in private secondary schools in Mfoundi Division. We looked at school management from the point of view of the functions of a manager as presented by Fayol, the best pioneer manager amongst the equals- planning, organizing, supervising and human resource management. The aim of this research was to establish the relationship each of these mentioned variables have with quality education. A thirty-six points Likert-type questionnaire was developed and validated by the supervisor, assisted by the lecturer in charge of education statistics and methodology. Both also advised on the reliability of the instrument which was administered to a sample of 200 teachers and administrators in two private secondary schools using the simple random sampling technique. Since our data was ranked, we used the spearman correlation model (p) to analyze the data and the correlation coefficient for quality management and the variables were as follows: 0.724 (52%) for planning processes; 0.655 (43%) for human resource management; O.605 (36%) for supervision and 0.712 (51%) for organizing processes. From our findings, we concluded that school management had a significant influence on quality education. In the same light, we determined that if school management is done with a special eye on learner outcomes and teaching processes, there will be a better quality of education. We therefore recommended that there be the implementation of the position of a human resource manager in schools, that managers of private schools take management courses to improve on their skills and that teachers should invest in their competence development. We equally advise for further research on the issue of management behavioral sciences to improve the quality of education.