Abstract
This paper examines the effects of some demographic variables such as status (experience), gender, and location of head teachers’ characteristics on administrative effectiveness. The target population of the study consisted of all the head teachers in Delta Central Public Primary Schools. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the schools and teachers from eight local government areas. Head teachers from 26 schools and 156 teachers were selected from 4 local government area were used for the study. Questions were posed to guide the study and jive null hypothesis were tested. A reliability of 0.69 was obtained using statistical tools such as simple percentage, mean score, standard deviation and Z- statistical test. The findings from the result shows that head teachers in Delta Central Public Primary Schools were effective in the administrative task. The study recommended that areas of least effectiveness should be examined and improved upon, more female head teachers should be made to head schools, incentives should be given to head teachers in rural areas, the department in charge of appointment and promotion of teachers to the rank of head teachers should consider greatly the attribute of prospective head teachers. The ministry of education should employ the services of experience head teacher who are in the senior level by deploying such persons into school for effectiveness and finally, the ministry of education should employ head teachers who obtain their degree in education, such persons are more of professional model are competent in heading a school.
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