School plant maintenance culture for the effective administration of public secondary schools in Port Harcourt Local Government Area

Abstract

The study examined school plant maintenance culture for effective administration in the public secondary schools in Port Harcourt Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consists of all 15 public senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State. Therefore, the census sampling technique was used to obtain a sample size of 45 principals (15 principals and 30 vice principals, of which 19 are males and 26 are females). The instrument for data collection used in this study was "the Plant Maintenance Culture Questionnaire (PMCQ)". The reliability coefficient of 0.73 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested using Z-test at 0.05 level. The results showed both male and female principals adopted school plant maintenance culture for effective administration in public secondary schools in Port Harcourt LGA and that there are challenges facing principals in school plant maintenance culture for effective administration of the secondary schools in Port Harcourt LGA. It was recommended that principals should be encouraged by the government to continually coordinate material resources appropriately as a way of plant maintenance for their effective secondary school administration.