Inspection Strategies and Organizational Performance in Public Secondary School in Delta State, Nigeria

This study examined inspection strategies and organizational performance in public secondary schools in Delta State. It was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. The correlational survey method of the ex-post facto research design was adopted. The population was twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-five thousand (12,755) principals and teachers in Delta State public secondary school. Adopting a stratified sampling technique, 637 respondents were sampled. A self-constructed research instrument titled “Inspection Strategies and Organisational Performance Questionnaire (ISOPQ) was used to solicit information from respondents. The instrument underwent face and content validity through scrutiny from three experts. To measure the internal consistency of the instrument, it was subjected to the Cronbach alpha reliability test and yielded a reliability index of .91. Data gathered from the field were analyzed using mean rating and standard deviation to provide answers to the research questions at a benchmark of 2.50. On the other hand, the hypotheses were tested using Pearson r at a 0.05 level of significance. SPSS 23 statistical package was used to compute data. Finding revealed that inspection strategies inspectors use to influence performance in public secondary schools in Delta State include full inspection, classroom visitation, feedback, curriculum innovation, routine inspection, development inspection, follow-up inspection, and check–up inspection. It was also discovered that full inspection, inspection visits, feedback and curriculum innovation were significantly related to organizational performance in public secondary schools in Delta State. Arising from the findings it was recommended that school principals should work on diversifying the inspection strategies used in their schools.