Students perception of the administrative practices of heads of single sex schools in the Cape Coast

Abstract

In the Cape Coast Municipality, there are single sex senior high schools and co-educational senior high schools. The study set out to investigate how students in the single sex senior high schools perceived the administrative functions of the heads. The purpose was to examine how the heads of the schools played their administrative roles. The research employed a descriptive survey. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to draw a sample size of 640 from five single sex senior high schools in the Cape Coast Municipality. For the data collection, the main instrument used was a questionnaire which comprised both open-ended and closed-ended items. The return rate of the retrieval of the questionnaire distributed was 91%. The major findings of the study indicated that the student perceived heads of single sex senior high schools of the Cape-Coast Municipality to perform their administrative duties to a great extent. Students of the girls’ schools perceived their heads are being more caring in their welfare than the heads of boys’ schools. Also the study revealed that the heads involved the students to some extent in the planning of activities of the school and in the execution of their administrative functions.