Equitable Distribution of School Facilities for Effective Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Imo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study focused on equitable distribution of school facilities for effective teaching and learning in secondary schools in Imo state, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised 597 secondary schools in Imo State with 3,154 teaching staff as the respondents.The sample size of the respondents was 824 representing 26.1% of the population drawn using proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. An instrument titled “Equitable Distribution of School Facilities for Effective Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (EDSFETLQ)” structured by the researchers and validated by experts with reliability co-efficient of 0.82 determined with Cronbach Alpha was used for data generation. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering research questions while z-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The study revealed among others that the criteria used by government in the distribution of school facilities for teaching and learning are not fair and favourable for goals' attainment of secondary schools in the State. It was recommended among others that the government should disengage on the criteria on board to ensure equitable distribution of facilities to schools.