Principal’s executive techniques for handling students’ desruptive behaviour in secondary schools’ in Ebonyi state

The study investigated principals’ executive techniques for handling students’ disruptive behaviour in secondary schools in Ebonyi state of Nigeria. It is a descriptive survey research work carried in Ebonyi state, south eastern part of Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses, all derived from the purpose of the study. The population of the study consists of 221 principals and 2154 SS3 students. The sample size of 222 respondents comprising 7 principals and 215 students were selected using purposive simple random sampling technique. An instrument titled “Executive Techniques for Handling Students’ Disruptive Behaviour Scale” (ETHSDBS) was developed and used for the study. The face and content validity of the instrument was carried out by experts from Measurement and Evaluation unit the Department of Educational Foundations of Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo. A reliability index of 0.85 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha tools. Direct delivery method was used to administer the instrument. Frequency tables mean and standard deviations were used in answering the research questions, while Z-test was used to test the hypotheses. Among the findingsare inadequate supervision of students, principals’ leadership styles are among the causes of students disruptive behaviour. Recommendations were made, which include among others, total overhaul the secondary education in the stateto take care of improving the students’ welfare and giving a better orientation to the principals and other school managers on better and more acceptable school management techniques.