Assessment of Principals' Commitment to Teachers' Performance Appraisal among Public Secondary Schools in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State

The study assessed the principals’ commitment to teachers’ performance appraisal among public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State. Descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 2,372 teachers in the 42 pubic secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government in 2023/2024 academic session. Random sampling technique was used to select 21(50%) out of the 42 schools while 292 teachers were selected out of the 1,205 in the sampled schools, using proportionate sampling technique. Assessment of Principals’ Commitment to Teachers’ Performance Appraisal’ (APCTPA) was used to collect data. Validity of the instrument was done and its reliability test yielded an index of 0.79. The findings of the study revealed that level of principals’ commitment to teachers’ performance appraisal in public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State was declared low. Also, gender and years of experience did not cause any significant difference in the teachers’ opinions on the level of principals’ commitment to teachers’ performance appraisal in public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State. It was recommended that school principals need to be more committed to performance appraisal by personally carrying it out and also charge Vice Principals (Academic), Heads of Department or any experienced teachers within or outside the schools to perform it, so as to improve teachers’ job performance. Key words: Assessment, Principals, Commitment, Teachers, Performance Appraisal