Teaching Staff Talent and Knowledge Management Activities as Predictors of Competitive Secondary Education Delivery in Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated teaching staff talent and knowledge management activities as predictors
of competitive secondary education delivery in Rivers State. Two (2) research questions and
2 hypotheses were answered and tested in the study, respectively. The population of the study
was the 268 public secondary schools in the state while the sample was 214 (80%) principals
selected from the population, using the simple random sampling technique. Respondents of
the study responded to two validated instruments. These were the Teaching Staff Talent and
Knowledge Management Scale (TSTKMS) and Competitive Secondary Education Delivery
Index (CSEDI), designed by the researchers, in the modified 4-point Likert scale model with
reliability index of 0.74 and 0.84, respectively. Linear regression was used in answering the
research questions while t-test associated with linear regression was used in testing the
hypotheses at 5% level of significance. The findings of the study show that teaching staff
talent and knowledge management exercises predicted competitive secondary education
delivery by 20.2% and 25.2%, respectively and that there are significant predictions of
teaching staff talent and knowledge management exercises on competitive secondary education
delivery in Rivers State. It was therefore concluded that deliberate teaching staff talent and
knowledge management exercises are strong predictors of competitive secondary education
delivery in Rivers State. Based on this, it is recommended that stakeholders in school
administration should continue to ensure effective talent and knowledge management while making sure that they break new frontiers in order to keep abreast with current requirements
for global competitiveness.