Assessment of Parents-teachers’ Association to Provision of Infrastructural Facilities and Welfare Services in Secondary Schools in Kaduna State
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study assessed the contributions of Parents-Teachers' Association (PTA) to the provision of infrastructural facilities and welfare services in secondary schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria.Two objectives, research questions, and hypotheses guided the study.A descriptive survey research design was adopted.The population of the study was 14,766, comprising 672 principals, 8,708 teachers, and 5,386 PTA executives in secondary schools in Kaduna State.A sample of 370 respondents was selected using a multi-stage sampling technique.A self-designed questionnaire was used for data collection.Frequency and simple percentage were used to analyze respondents' bio-data, while mean scores were used to answer the research questions.One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance.The findings revealed that the PTA contributed to the provision of infrastructural facilities in secondary schools in Kaduna State.The findings also showed that the PTA contributed to the provision of welfare services in secondary schools.The study recommended that Parents-Teachers' Association should strengthen its contributions to the provision of infrastructural facilities in secondary schools.It further recommended that the Kaduna State Government should strengthen PTA through capacity-building programmes to equip members with effective intervention strategies for improving welfare services in schools.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7222806156
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