SCHOOL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT BY PRINCIPALS AND EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The  study  investigated the management of school facilities by principals and effective instructional delivery in public  secondary schools in Imo State, Nigeria. To  achieve this, four research questions and four null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A systematic random sampling technique was adopted to sample 664 from the population of 6640 teachers and principals. The instrument for data gathering was a researcher’s made structured questionnaires of Likert type scale. The instrument was validated by experts in Educational Management. Pearson product moment correlation was used for reliability which gave r-coefficient of 0.84. The data collected were analysed with mean, standard deviation and t-test statistics. Findings show that teachers disagreed that school principals made use of professionals in procuring facilities and equipment, failed to carry out routine services of facilities and equipment, fail to establish maintenance units. The findings also revealed that students were not asked to replace damaged equipment. These findings were confirmed by the rejection of Ho1 and Ho2, while Ho3 and Ho4 were accepted. The study recommended that government, through the Ministry of Education should endeavour to carry out routine maintenance in the schools in order to achieve effective instructional delivery, through a functional school facilities management.