Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the assessment of community participation in the administration of secondary schools in Ishielu Education zone, Ebonyi state. The respondents in this study were 17 principals and 310 members of school based management committee in the public secondary schools in the zone. To guide this study, 5 research questions and 3 null hypotheses were formulated. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. In order to collect data for the study, an instrument titled, “Assessment of Community Participation in the Administration of Secondary Schools Questionnaire (ACPASSQ) was developed by the researcher and was used for the study after its validity and reliability was established. The data were collected and analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation while the t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that community participates to a high extent in staff personnel administration, student personnel administration, funding of secondary school and supervision of instruction while to a low extent in provision of school buildings. The implication of this finding is that community should provide students and teachers with school buildings in order to create conducive atmosphere for learning. One of the recommendations is that Ministry of Education should enlighten the community members through seminars, workshops and conferences on the importance of community participation in the administration of secondary schools and this will help in achievement of educational goals and objectives.
