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School Plant Security Management and Students’ Academic Achievement in
Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State.

The study examined school plant security management and students‟ academic achievement in public
secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were
formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was ex-post facto. The study population consisted of 48,
840 SSII students and 6755 teachers in 235 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. The sample
comprised 977 SSII students and 811 teachers in 118 Secondary Schoolswhich were sampled, using multistage
sampling procedure. Two instruments were used for data collection. They are researcher developed
checklist and questionnaire respectively titled “School Plant Security Availability Checklist (SPSAC) and School
Plant Security Utilization Questionnaire (SPSUQ)”. SPSUQ was responded to by both the teachers and
students. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was determined using the Cronbach Alpha statistic. The
Reliability index of 0.82 was obtained. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research
questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The
findings of the study are that lacks of security devices in the school affect negatively students‟ academic
achievement in English Language, Mathematics and Biology. The study recommended that there is need to
overhaul the existing policy on school plant security as to ensure proper provision and utilization of the devices.
It also recommended that government should make available suitable security devices and all the materials
needed to make them functional.