EXTENT OF PRINCIPALS’ TECHNOLOGICAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ ADMINISTRATION IN AWKA EDUCATION ZONE, ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study was to investigate the extent of principals' technological security management strategies for enhancing secondary schools’ administration in Awka Education Zone, Anambra State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Principals' population was 54 while teachers' population was 621, the researcher purposively sampled 124 teachers' and made use of the 54 principals. The researcher made use of instrument for data collection. The instrument consisted of 15 items. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha with an overall reliability index of 0.80 which made the instrument highly reliable. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study showed that the respondents were of the views that, principals' technological security management strategies relating to the provision of security devices have an impact in enhancement of secondary school administration in Awka Education Zone to a low extent. It was recommended among others that the government should take the issue of technological security as a matter of priority as well as allocating money for the purchasing of such safety and security building equipment as video surveillance (CCTv) among others.