PARENTS’ TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION ROLE PERFORMANCE AS CORRELATE OF EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION IN UNITY SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study ascertained the relationship between Parents’ Teachers’ Association Role Performance and Effective Administration in unity secondary schools in South-East, Nigeria. This study adopted correlational research design. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The sample size for the study was 289 which comprised 10 principals, 20 executive members of SBMC, 20 members of PTA, and 239 teachers from 10 Unity secondary schools in the South East, Nigeria. The study adopted multistage sampling procedure. Two Researcher-developed questionnaires were used for data collection which were: Parents’ Teachers’ Association Role Performance Questionnaire (PTARPQ) and Effective Administration of Unity Secondary School Questionnaire (EAUSSQ). The instruments were validated by three experts, two from Educational Management and one from Science Education Department majored in Measurement and Evaluation, all from College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The reliability of two questionnaires were established from a trial test carried out in Federal Government College Port Harcourt, Rivers state which is outside the area of the study using Cronbach alpha. This yielded internal consistency indices of .71 and .73 for PTARPQ and EAUSSQ respectively.  Out of 289 copies of the two set of the instruments administered, 275 copies representing 95% return rate of the administered copies of the instruments which were used for data analysis. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) (PPMCC) was used to answer the research question 0ne and two while Scheffe’s test was used to answer research question three. Linear regression was used to test all the null hypotheses except hypothesis three which was tested with multi-regression at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed among others that Parents Teachers Association Role performance such as funding roles, and school community relations role respectively relate to effective administration in unity secondary schools to very high extent in South East, Nigeria. Based on the results, it was concluded that PTA as a stakeholder in school administration should identify her roles and be fully involved in performing such roles in order to have good atmosphere for effective administration of unity schools. It was also recommended that PTA of respective schools should be involved in fund raising as a way to support unity secondary schools to carry out important projects in the schools