Revitalization of Secondary Education as Correlate of Economic Recovery in Bayelsa State

Abstract

This study examined revitalization of secondary education as correlate of economic recovery in Bayelsa State. The study was guided by three objectives with corresponding research questions and hypotheses. Correlation survey research design was adopted for the study with a population of 3,946 teachers in all the 216 public senior secondary schools in Bayelsa State. The sample size of 395 respondents representing 10% of the population was drawn using stratified sampling technique. The instrument was a two set questionnaire titled: Revitalization of Secondary Education Assessment Scale (RSEAS) and Economic Recovery Assessment Scale (ERAS). The instruments were validated and reliability coefficients of 0.87 and 0.85 were obtained for both instruments respectively using Cronbach alpha statistics. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistics was used to answer the research questions. The hypotheses were tested using r-ratio at 0.05 level of significance. This was further tested by transforming the coefficient of correlation (r) to z in order to establish the significance or otherwise of the r-value. The findings of the study revealed that there is high and positive significant relationship between revitalization of teacher professional development programme, educational funding, e-technology and economic recovery in Bayelsa State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government and administrators should continue to synergize to fully implement teacher professional development programmes at the secondary school level to ensure quality output of students who can resuscitate the economy and drive it towards economic prosperity. Also, government should increase educational funding to 26% as recommended by UNESCO as funding benchmark, as this will help to meet the needs of schools to turn out graduates that could help to savage a nose-diving economy.
Keywords: Revitalization, Seconda