Extent of Community Participation in the Provision of School Plant in the Administration of Public Secondary Schools in Enugu State

Abstract

The study examined the extent of community participation in the provision of school plant in the administration of public secondary schools in Enugu State. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive survey research design employing simple random sampling was used to sample 7211 of all the principals and classroom teachers from both rural and urban schools in Enugu State: Out of which 702 respondents responded to the study. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. The questionnaire was face validated by experts in the field of education, a reliability co-efficient of 0.73 was obtained using croanbach alpha method of determining internal consistency of the instrument. The research question was answered using mean and grand mean while the hypothesis was tested using t-test statistics. The result revealed that the extent of community participation in the provision of school plant in public secondary schools in Enugu State was low. Significant differences did not exist in the mean perception scores of principals and teachers regarding the extent of community participation in provision of school plant in the public secondary schools in Enugu State. It was recommended among other things that regular interactive programmes for instance radio-link and meet the people-tour should be conducted for both the principals and community representatives, the need for provision of school plant in schools.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n4p53