ABSTRACT

The study titled staff development strategies as correlate of teachers job delivery in unity secondary schools in south east, Nigeria’ was guided by nine research questions and nine hypotheses which were tested at 0.05 level of significance. It adopted a correlation design. A total population of937 teachers from ten unity secondary schools (federal government colleges) in south east, Nigeria were used for the study. The sample size for the study was 749 teachers from ten unity schools which was selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The sample 749 represents 80% ofthe population. Two instruments were developed for data collection titled “Staff Development Strategies Questionnaire” (SDSQ) and ‘’Job Delivery Questionnaire” (JDQ) were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by two experts from the Department of Educational Management- specialist in Educational Administration and Planning and one expert from the Department of Science Education who specialized in Measurement and Evaluation, all from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. Cronbach Alpha method was used to determine the cluster by cluster reliability ofthe instruments. The reliability ofthe two instruments yielded indices of .76 and .74 respectively which are reliable. Four adequately briefed field assistants helped in the administration and collection of the questionnaire. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research questions while simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings ofthe study revealed that Onthe-job training ofteachers to moderate/medium extent relatesto teachers’ job delivery in unity secondary schools in south east, Nigeria; teachers’ health insurance to a positive weak/low extent relate to teachers’ job delivery in unity secondary schools in south east, Nigeria. The study recommend among others that; there is need for revitalization of on-the-job training by federal government in order to assist teachers to improve in their teaching skills; bi-annual orientations, seminars and workshops should be conducted for the teachers in unity secondary schools to help increase their competence level and mastery ofsubject content for theirjob delivery.