Professional Development Programmes as Correlates of Instructors’ Task Performance in Police Training Colleges in Southern Nigeria
- November 27, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue XI, November 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
Nyong, Nelson A., Dr. Onyeike, V. C. and Dr. J.N.D. Meenyinikor
Department of Educational Management, University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
Abstract: -The study investigated professional development programmes as correlates of instructors’ task performance in police training colleges in Southern Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlational research design. The sample size for the study was 340 instructors in Police Training colleges in Southern Nigeria selected from a population of 378 instructors. The proportionate stratified sampling technique was used to arrive at the sample size representing 90% of the population. Two instruments titled “Professional Development Programme Scale” (PDPS) with 34 items and “Task Performance Scale” with 20 items were used for data collection. The face and content validities were ensured. Internal consistency through Cronbach alpha was used to estimate the reliability indexes of 0.89 and 0.88 for PDPS and TPS respectively. Research questions 1, 2, and 3 were answered with the help of simple regression, while research questions 4, was answered using multiple regression. Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 were tested with t-test associated with simple regression, while hypotheses 4 were tested using ANOVA associated with multiple regression. It was found that seminar, workshop, and conference significantly predict task performance of instructors in police training colleges in Southern Nigeria. It was recommended among others that promotion of instructors should be tied on the number of professional development programmes attended.
I. INTRODUCTION
Task performance is the aggregate of efforts and competencies of an individual in ensuring quality service delivery. Mark (2006) saw it as the employee’s proficiency in generating services or outcomes that directly or indirectly contribute to the technical core of an organization. It is the capacity of an employee in generating efficiency in an organization. It includes all activities, attitude and processes that enhance staff development and effective actualization of their primary responsibility in an organized institution. Task performance is measured in rating scale, test of job knowledge, level of output and archival records can be used for its assessment. However, The Nigerian Police Force is a creation of the constitution of the l999. Under section 214, subsection (I) of the constitution, it is provided as follows: “There shall be a Police Force for Nigeria, which shall be known as the Nigerian Police Force and will be subject to the provisions of this section no other police force shall be established for the federation or any part thereof”.
