PRINCIPALS’ MANAGERIAL SKILLS ANDEFFICIENT MANAGEMENTOF EDUCATIONAL RECORD KEEPING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, EDO STATE
The aim of the study was to investigate whether there would be a positive relationship between principals’ managerial skills and efficient educational records keeping. Descriptive survey research design was employed in the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a total of One hundred and two principals from public secondary schools in Edo State. One research question was raised for the study. Four research hypotheses were formulates to guide the study. A researcher-designed instrument titled” Principal managerial skills and educational record keeping Questionnaire (PMSERKQ) was used for the study. The face validity of the instrument was ascertained and a reliability Coefficient of 0.71 of the instrument was obtained using the test-retest method. The means of standard deviation was used to analysis the research question. Data were analyzed using Pearson Product moment correlation and multiple regressions. Results indicated a significant relationship between the administrative leadership styles of the principals and the management of record keeping in the public secondary schools (r = .618, p< 0.05); it was revealed a significant relationship between the educational qualifications of the principals and the management of records keeping in the public secondary schools(r = .526,p< 0.05): also it was revealed that supervisory styles of the principal correlates with management of record keeping (r=.463, p< 0.05); both variables jointly explain 38% of the variance observed in the management of records keeping in public secondary schools in Edo state and it was statistically significant at F (df =2, 99) = 6.423.The result revealed that secondary school principals have different ways of managing school records in other to meet with the management of school records. Based on the findings, it was recommended that secondary school principals should be encouraged to attend conferences, workshops in-service training and retraining and seminars in other to polished and enhance their administrative skills. School principals should properly keep and manage educational records for utilization and future retrieval thereby enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of the school system. Supervisory styles by the school principals would promote the effectiveness and efficiency of the educational records in the school system.