TIME RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND TEACHERS’ TASK PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

This study investigated Time resources management and teachers’ task performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Three research questions and three hypotheses were used for the study. A correlational research design was used for this study. The population of the study consisted of all the 6,893 teachers in the 286 public senior secondary schools in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The sampling technique applied in selecting 378 respondents from a population of 6859 was simple random sampling, in which every member has an equal chance of being selected. Given the disparities in the distribution of the unit population for each school, the stratified proportionate sampling method was applied in the unit sampling using the Taro Yamane formula. The instruments used for data collection of data for this study were designed by the researcher and titled ‘Time Management Questionnaire” (TMQ) and “Teachers Task Performance Questionnaire (TTPQ). The scores of the two sets of instruments were correlated using Pearson product moment correlation to determine the reliability index of 0.892 and 0.834 respectively which was reliable for the study. Out of the 378 copies of the questionnaire administered, 363 copies were retrieved by the researcher with the help of two trained research assistants at a date and time agreed upon with the respondents, which represented a 96% retrieval rate. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics was used to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Classroom time influence teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Again, the findings indicated that time management for weekly activities influence teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State to a high extent. The study concluded that teachers can only deliver job effectively if they manage time effectively.  The study therefore among others recommended that teachers should always allocate time to the duties assigned to them to avoid encroaching the time of another activity and they should schedule their duties based on the available time in order to reduce work stress.