Adoption of Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) for Effective Instructional Delivery in Nigerian Secondary Schools
Abstract
The purpose of the research work is to see the improvement of instructional leadership of principal on school through validation of the PIMRS questionnaires in Nigeria school context as compared to other European country. It is a widely used instrument in school leadership research (Hallinger, & Wang 2015). Instructional leaders ensure conducive and enabling environment to be tailored in a positive way to meet educational goals and objectives through both human and martial resources for school improvement. According several literature review on the model of instructional leadership, this paper intend to established validity and reliability of the fifty items version of the ‘Principal Instructional leadership Management Rating Scale’ teachers version in Nigeria context developed by Hallinger and Murphy (1985) which is centered on instructional leadership model construct which included; Define School Mission, Managing Instructional Programme and Developing a Positive Learning Climate under ten demission’s . The instrument content validation was ensured by experts in educational planning and experienced principals on language clarity, understanding and its reliability. This study was conducted in North central of Nigeria with a total number of 100 secondary teacher from 4 schools. The overall reliability coefficient of this instrument was determined to be 0.95 level of significant. Passing the threshold of 0.7 this shows that the respondents for this research work understand well enough the meaning of each item used. The define school mission 0.83 managing instructional programmes 0.87 and developing a positive learning climate 0.91. The result shown a significant positive correlation between all the dimensions of the PIMRS Questionnaires. Which can be adopted in Nigeria context and for future researchers in instructional leadership.
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