Effectiveness of Motivational Techniques in the Administration of Secondary Schools in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

Abstract

This research finding is based on the Effectiveness of Motivational Techniques in the Administration of Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State. The correlation research survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consist of three hundred and thirty (330) teachers in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, comprising of two hundred and forty (240) males and ninety (90) females. The sample consists of one hundred and ninety two (132) teachers from sixteen (16) secondary schools in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa state, using a simple random sampling technique. The research instrument used for gathering information is a self-constructed questionnaire titled Motivational Techniques and Effective School Administration Questionnaire (MTESAQ). Three research questions and three hypotheses were raised, mean and standard deviation was used for analysing the research questions while Pearson Moment Correlation statistics was used in analysing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.