PTA Building Morals of Students’ and Effective Management of Secondary Schools in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

Dr Diepreye Okodoko; Egrenfa; Tokoni Ruth

doi:10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no3.2025.pg.367.377

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PTA Building Morals of Students’ and Effective Management of Secondary Schools in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

Dr Diepreye Okodoko, Egrenfa, Tokoni Ruth

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This research set out to answer the question, "How can PTAs in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State improve school management and the moral education of their students?" by looking at secondary schools in that area. A correlational survey design was used in the study's investigation. A total of 1,596 participants, including instructors and parents, were surveyed throughout the 2020–2021 school year at 10 randomly chosen public secondary schools in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Using the proportional stratified random selection approach, 638 parents and teachers, or 40% of the total population, were chosen to participate in the research. Ten (10) questions made up the PTA Building of Students' Morals and Effective Management of Secondary Schools Questionnaire (PTABMSEMSSQ), the tool used to gather data. Researchers from Niger Delta University's educational foundations department and two specialists in assessment and evaluation from Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, checked the instrument's validity. By using Cronbach's Alpha technique, we were able to ascertain the reliability coefficient values of the instrument's internal consistencies. Results for the dependability coefficients for PTA building students' morals and successful administration of secondary schools were.810 and.750, respectively. The data were analyzed with the application of simple percentage analysis, model summary of simple regression analysis and PPMC analysis for the demographic data, research question and hypothesis respectively with the aid of the SPSS version 26. The study concludes that parents’ teachers’ association (PTA) building morals of students’ has significant relationship with effective management of secondary schools. In alignment with the conclusion, it was recommended that, parents’ teachers association (PTA) should improve more on their building morals of students, because of its ability to project effe

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Parent Teachers AssociationBuilding Moral of StudentsEffective Management

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PTA Building Morals of Students’ and Effective Management of Secondary Schools in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

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