Assessment of Why Class-Size Reduction (CSR) Does Not Work in Public Schools in Nigeria: A Survey of Public Secondary School Administrators in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study, Assessment of Why Class-Size Reduction (CSR) Does Not Work in Public Schools in Nigeria: A Survey of Public Secondary School Administrators in Rivers State. The purpose of this study is to assess why class size reduction does not work in public schools with the school administrators. One research question was raised and three hypotheses were formulated for the study. The study adopted the survey research design. The population was made up 268 public senior secondary schools administrators from which a sample size of 152 administrators was determined by Taro Yamane formula and out of which 144 questionnaires was retrieved. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled ‘Class-Size Reduction Questionnaire (CSRQ)'. The analysis of data was done using mean and simple ranking to answer the only research question while the independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses. From the analysis, the research question revealed why Class-Size Reduction (CSR) does not work in public secondary schools as enormously expensive, not properly investigated, the cost of increasing classrooms, more funds spent on added teachers, nonchalant aspect of the government and increase in the number of administrators. The hypotheses testing revealed that, all the three hypotheses indicated no significant mean difference of Why Class-Size Reduction (CSR) Does Not Work in Public Schools. The study concluded that class sizes reduction in public schools will not be feasible; especially because of the nonchalant aspect of the government. The recommendation was that, the government should take the issues of class size reduction serious and as well put it into practice.