Sustainable Leadership and School Accountability Management as Determinants of Students’ Performance During COVID-19 Era in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Abstract

The main thrust of this study was to examine the relationship between sustainable leadership and school accountability management as determinants of students’ academic performance during the era of Covid-19 pandemic waves in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. This study was tailored to follow survey research design in which two null hypotheses were formulated in consonant with the specific purposes of the study. The population consisted of 681 secondary school administrators (227 principals and 454 vice principals) distributed across 227 public secondary schools situated in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Census technique was adopted in studying the entire population. Two self-structured and administered questionnaires titled: Sustainable Leadership and School Accountability Management Survey (SLSAMS) and Students’ Academic Performance Scale (SAPS) were used as data collection instruments via online medium. The null hypotheses of the study were all tested at. 05 level of significance using the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Analysis. Findings of the study indicated that sustainable leadership and school accountability management did have a partial significant relationship with students’ academic performance in secondary schools. In line with this finding, relevant policy implications were discussed. It is recommended, among others, that secondary school principals should sustainably manage the school system with a very high sense of responsibility in other to enhance students’ academic performance especially in this period of global Covid-19 pandemic waves.