ASSESSMENT OF PRINCIPALS' VIOLATION OF STUDENTS' RIGHTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA 2010 - 2015

📄 Project Abstract

The study was designed to assess principals' violation of students' rights in secondary schools, in Kogi State Nigeria. It aims at finding out the extent to which the principals are aware of students rights, assess the extent to which students right to life, dignity of human person, right to personal liberty, right to fair hearing are being violated by principals. The design used for the study is descriptive survey. Six research questions and six hypotheses guided the study. The target population for the study was 47,388 students, teachers and principals from 345 schools in Kogi State. The sampled population was 6,191 comprising 138 principals, 1,794 teachers and 4,259 students from 138 sampled schools. The instrument used for the study was the (PASRVQ) Principals' Awareness of Students' Rights Violation Questionnaire. Means and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The internal constituency and reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha ...