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ABSTRACT

This study was to assess resources management effectiveness as a panacea to student poor academic performance in Imo State. The population comprised principals, vice principal, teachers and students. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 10 principals, 10 vice principal and 40 teachers and 100 students in Imo State giving a total of 160 respondents that constituted the sample size for the study. The Instrument used in this study for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Resources Management Effectiveness Questionnaire “(RMEQ)”. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by an expert in test measurement and evaluation from Imo State University to ensure that the instrument was valid enough for the study. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.80 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics and regression analysis. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study concluded that school administrators play important roles in for the school success. The result also proved that the extent of resources management effectiveness by the school administrators in Imo State is high. Finally, the results proved that there is significant influence of resources management effectiveness on student academic performance in Imo State. One of the recommendations was that school administrators should be encouraged to develop method of prudent resource management to increase the efficiency in the use of available resources in the school.

KEYWORDS: Resources Management Effectiveness, School Administrators, Student Academic Performance and Imo State