EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FOR EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

The study investigated educational facilities management for effective administration in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Three research questions and three corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted in the study and the population of the study consisted of 302 Principals and 6557 teachers totaling 6859. The sampling technique applied in selecting 378 respondents from a population of 6859 was simple random sampling. Given the disparities in the distribution of the unit population for each school, the stratified proportionate sampling method was applied in the unit sampling using the Taro Yamane formula. The instrument that was used for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire titled “Educational Facilities Management for Effective Administration Questionnaire (EFMEAQ). The results of the tests were analyzed using Cronbach's Alpha statistics based on the three sections of the instrument 0.77, 0.78, and 0.72 respectively with the average reliability index as 0.76. Mean and Standard Deviation Statistics were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics were used to test the null hypothesis at a 0.05 level of significance. The finding indicates that to a high extent regular maintenance of classrooms as an educational facility is managed for effective administration in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It concluded that the findings from this study pointed out the importance of effective educational facilities management for the administration of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was recommended among others that principals should develop standardized procedures for reporting maintenance issues in classrooms and State Government should offer training on best practices for maintaining and updating library resources