ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SECURITY STATUS IN ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE
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Date
2023-11-01
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Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education
Abstract
The schools have been deeply affected by the economic, political, and
social conditions of our time, and have been exposed to many undesirable
events and behaviors such as substance addiction, violence, child abuse
and sabotage. The study examined the assessment of primary school
security status in Ilorin West Local government area of Kwara state. One
research question and two hypotheses guided the study, the study adopted
descriptive survey research design, The population for this study was all
primary schools principals in Ilorin West Local Government Area of
Kwara State, 64 schools were randomly selected as sample size,
Observation Checklist on School Security (OCSS) was used for the study ,
reliability coefficient was (r=.84), mean and percentage were used for
research question while hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics
of t-test were used to test the hypotheses. The findings of this study
revealed that there were availability of school security in primary school in
Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, school type and
location had no significant difference of primary school security status in
Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State(t = -.651, df = 62, p <
0.05), (t = -.336, df = 62, p > 0.05). Based on the findings of this study, it can
be stated that there were availability of school security in primary school
in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. The following
recommendations were made; government and stakeholders should
make more provision for school securities and educational stakeholder
should provide adequate security facilities, policies and curriculum for
early childhood education.