Impact of School Monitoring on the Academic Performance of Pupils in Public Junior High Schools in the Akuapem North Municipality of Ghana.

Abstract

Education has well-defined monitoring and assessment mechanisms that help school administrators in the day-to-day operation of the country's schools. Excellent monitoring in schools has always been critical to academic success, and research has demonstrated that effective schools include robust monitoring procedures. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of school monitoring on the academic performance of pupils in the Akuapem North Municipality of Ghana. The study examined the measures used by school administrators in Akuapem North Municipality to increase effective monitoring and academic performance in the Public Junior High Schools. Based on the review of literature, the study employed the descriptive cross-sectional survey design for which a questionnaire was used to collect data from 311 teachers and headteachers across the nine (9) circuits of the Akuapem North Municipality. The study discovered that the majority of schools that placed a high premium on the six school monitoring measures did better. The study has then shown that Lezotte's (2010) tactics for effective monitoring are strong predictors of academic performance. In view of this, it is recommended that school authorities need to put much emphasis on effective monitoring strategies in schools.