ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOL BASED MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE IN EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study examined the extent school based management committee (SBMC) contribute in the effective administration of public secondary school in Anambra State. The study adopted a descriptive design. The population of the study comprised all the 32 principals in the 32 secondary schools in Onitsha Education zone and 64 PTA members, 2 from each school totaling 96 respondent. The instrument for data collection was a self-structured questionnaire tagged  School based management committee construction in effective management of secondary school (SBMCCEMSSQ) the instrument was validated by 3expert, 2expert in Educational management and an expert in measurement and Evaluation all in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus. Cronbach’s Alpha  was used in testing the reliability  index of the instrument which yielded an overall reliability coefficient of  .87, Mean scores was used to answer the research question.  Findings from the study revealed that SBMC is not effective in Onitsha Education zone as regards, infrastructure, funding, Renovation among others, it was therefore recommended that school administrator should work closely with the community leaders especially President General (PG) of town union  in Anambra state so as to attract infrastructural development, funding, motivation of staff among others.