Provision of Financial Resources for Administration of Internal Examination in Public Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State

Abstract

This study focused on Assessment of Provision of Financial Resources for Administration of Internal Examination in Public Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was two hundred and twenty-six (226) principals and four thousand one hundred and fifty-seven (4,157) teachers from all the public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Researchers- structured questionnaire tagged “Financial Resources Provision Questionnaire (FRPQ)” was used for data collection. The instrument was validation by three experts in faculty of education, one from Measurement and Evaluation option while two were from Educational Administration and Planning Option in the Department of Science Education and Educational Foundations respectively in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. Cronbach’s alpha was used to correlate the results which gave overall reliability index of 0.76.  Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for all research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The findings of the study revealed that financial resources provided for the administration of internal examination in secondary schools is at low extent. Also, financial resources are not provided for teachers’ incentives to a high extent during internal examination in secondary schools in Ebonyi state. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that government should provide adequate financial resources to school administrators for the smooth administration of internal examination and provision for teachers’ incentives during internal examination.