School-Community Security Partnership and School Climate among Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

This research which was conducted to examine the influence of school-community security partnership on school climate among public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria was based on two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 3904 teachers in the 89 schools in the area of study. The study adopted multi stage sampling approach to obtain 423 teachers which constituted 11% of the sample size. The researcher made instruments entitled ‘School -Community Security Partnership Questionnaire (SCSPQ) and School Climate Questionnaire (SCQ)” were utilized to elicit information. The overall reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha statistics which gave reliability coefficient of .923 for School-Community Security Partnership Questionnaire and .822 for School Climate Questionnaire. The study used mean and standard deviation to answer the two research questions and independent t-test to test the two null hypotheses at the significant level of 0.05. The finding showed that there is a significant influence of school-community security partnership on school climate. It was recommended that the management of schools should establish school-community based security partnerships to foster a positive school climate.