Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 437-450
School-Level Planning and Effective Resource Utilization in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria
Dike, M. M.1, Agabi, O. G.2
1Research Scholar in Educational Planning, University of Port Harcourt.
2Senior Lecturer in Educational Planning, University of Port Harcourt.
Corresponding Author: Dike, M. M.
ABSTRACT
This paper examined how school-level planning relates with effective resource utilization in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It is a correlation survey design which involved a sample of 170 principals and 370 teachers drawn from 268 principals and 14,221 teachers in the 268 public senior secondary schools in the study area using a stratified random sampling technique. Self-designed questionnaires tagged ‘School-Level Planning Scale (SLPS)' for Principals and ‘Resource Utilization Scale (RUS)’ for Teachers were used for data collection and the Cronbach Alpha was used to test the reliability which yielded index of 0.68 and 0.72 respectively. Multiple and simple regression were used to analyze data to address the research questions, while ANOVA associated with simple regression analysis was implored in testing hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there is no significant relationship between school-level planning and physical facilities utilization, school-level planning and teaching manpower utilization, school-level planning and time resource utilization, school-level planning and school finance utilization. But, there is a significant relationship between school-level planning (taken together) and resource utilization in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The researcher therefore recommended amongst others that the government should always finance workshops and in-service training for school administrators to enable them acquire basic school-level planning skills, teachers as key actors in the education industry should always be equipped via in-service trainings and workshops for proper school resource utilization, and the government through her Ministry of Education should enhance supervisory and inspectorial activities in secondary schools for the strengthening of school-level planning for school goal attainment.
Keywords: School-level planning, human resources, physical facilities, school plants, time resources, funds, facilities utilization, school goal achievement, administrative effectiveness.
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