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

The study investigated teaching staff talent and knowledge management activities as predictorsof competitive secondary education delivery in Rivers State. Two (2) research questions and2 hypotheses were answered and tested in the study, respectively. The population of the studywas the 268 public secondary schools in the state while the sample was 214 (80%) principalsselected from the population, using the simple random sampling technique. Respondents ofthe study responded to two validated instruments. These were the Teaching Staff Talent andKnowledge Management Scale (TSTKMS) and Competitive Secondary Education DeliveryIndex (CSEDI), designed by the researchers, in the modified 4-point Likert scale model withreliability index of 0.74 and 0.84, respectively. Linear regression was used in answering theresearch questions while t-test associated with linear regression was used in testing thehypotheses at 5% level of significance. The findings of the study show that teaching stafftalent and knowledge management exercises predicted competitive secondary educationdelivery by 20.2% and 25.2%, respectively and that there are significant predictions ofteaching staff talent and knowledge management exercises on competitive secondary educationdelivery in Rivers State. It was therefore concluded that deliberate teaching staff talent andknowledge management exercises are strong predictors of competitive secondary educationdelivery in Rivers State. Based on this, it is recommended that stakeholders in schooladministration should continue to ensure effective talent and knowledge management while making sure that they break new frontiers in order to keep abreast with current requirementsfor global competitiveness.