Assessment of School Facilities Maintenance for Effective Instructional Delivery in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Bauchi State, Nigeria

Mohammad Hassan GARBA, Alhaji Adamu ABDULLAHI, Isah Khalid MOHAMMAD, Ramatu Bature MOHAMMAD, Amina Garba ALIYU

Abstract


This study assessed the maintenance of school facilities for effective teaching process in public senior secondary schools in Bauchi state. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. Design of the study was a descriptive survey design with a study population 5121 teachers. Simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting the respondents for the study. Instrument used for data collection was a 31-item structured questionnaire. Mean and standard derivation was used to answer the research questions Findings of the study revealed that school facilities maintenance is a catalyst for effective instructional delivery in Public Senior Secondary Schools and success of any educational programmes and there is urgent need for government and the various stakeholders to intensify effort to acquaint themselves with the identified strategies for achieving effective facilities maintenance of schools for effective instructional delivery in secondary schools. As a result of the findings, the study recommended that teachers should be encouraged to utilize preventive maintenance and work closely with the utility office for necessary guidance, ministry of education should organized an award winning event on school facilities maintenance in order to motivate the teachers toward maintenance culture of school facilities, secondary schools administrators should use some part of their internally generated revenue to support periodic maintenance in their respective schools and ministry of Education should monitor and supervise schools on regular basis to ensure that schools put in practice the preventive, replacement, periodic and emergency maintenance approach for effective instructional delivery in secondary school,



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