ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS FOR ENHANCING SCHOOL SUPERVISION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

The study investigated artificial intelligence applications for enhancing school supervision in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The study was guided by six objectives from which six research questions and hypotheses were drawn. The descriptive survey design was used for this study. The population of the study comprised six thousand, four hundred and eighty-five teachers (6485) and three hundred and eleven (311) principals in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Thus the population of the study is 6,796 made up of teachers and principals’. The sample size of the study is 377 which was determined using Taro Yamane’s formula. The instrument for data collection in this study was a researcher-designed questionnaire titled “Influence of Artificial Intelligence Applications on School Supervision Questionnaire (IAIASSQ).” The completed copies of the questionnaire were analyzed for reliability using Cronbach Alpha Method. The reliability coefficients of 0.78, 0.81, 0.77, 0.87, 0.88 and 0.81. were obtained for the various clusters of the instrument with an aggregate of 0.82 which showed the instrument was reliable. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation statistics, while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that to a high extent, the Teachmint application influences school supervision in public secondary schools in Rivers State, with a corresponding hypothesis one that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings of principals and teachers on the extent to which the Teachmint application influences school supervision in these schools. The study concluded that the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications significantly enhances school supervision in public secondary schools in Rivers State. AI-driven platforms, including Teachmint, ClassDojo, GoGuardian, have been found to improve teacher performance monitoring, administrative efficiency, classroom management, and communication between school stakeholders. It was recommended among others that school administrators should enhance the integration of the Teachmint application in school supervision practices.