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Anakaa, Ngohile Esther .

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ABSTRACT This study investigated Administrators’ Decision-Making Styles for Effective Administration of Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State. Four research questions and four hypotheses were used for the study. The 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 Rivers State. The sample of this study comprised 900 teachers in 20 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, representing 13 percent of the total population of the study. The stratified random sampling technique was used for the study. The questionnaire instrument titled: “Administrators’ Decision Making Styles and Effective School Administration Questionnaire” (ADMSESAQ) was used for the study. The questionnaires were divided into two sections: section A was for collection of demographic data while section B contained 12 items addressing the research questions. Furthermore, the coefficients index value obtained was 0.84 and therefore the reliability of the instrument was established. Data gathered from this study were collated and statistically analyzed. The statistical tool used for answering the research questions were Mean and Standard Deviation statistics while the null hypotheses were tested using regression analysis at 0.05 Alpha level of significance. The findings of this work revealed that delegative and collaborative decision-making influence effective administration of Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State. The study concludes that decision-making an important aspect of school administration, hence, the principal should the principals must be fully involved in the process to ensure efficiency. Thus, the recommend that the principals should not only adopt delegative decision making style but also supervise them to ensure efficiency, and collaborative decision making style should be given a high place in the school administration. Keywords: Administrator, collaboration, delegation, Decision-making

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