Volume 13, Issue 2A and 2B, 2025

An Assessment of the of Socio-Economic Factors and Educational Management in Lagos State

Olujuwon Olutola, Jegede A. A, & Omiyale O. Phillips

Abstract

The study assessed the socio-economic factors and educational management
in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study aims to identify specific challenges that
socio-economic pose to effective educational management and propose
strategies to mitigate their impact. Two hypotheses were formulated to guide
the focus of this study as 421 senior secondary school teachers from Ojo LGA
formed the population of the study. A sample of 120 participants was selected
for this study using a simple random sampling technique. A self-structured
Questionnaire, An Assessment of the Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on
Educational Management’’ was used in data collection. The instrument
contained 20 items using a 4-Likert of Strongly Agreed (4), Agreed (3),
Disagree (2), and Strongly Disagree (1) respectively. Content validity was
undertaken by three experts in the Department of Educational Management,
College of Social and Management Sciences Education, COMSSED from
Lagos State University of Education. Epe, Lagos. Through split-half reliability
form, an index of 0.879 was obtained meaning internal consistency was met.
Pearson Product Moment Correlation and regression analysis were used to
analyse the data and tested at a 0.05 significant level. The study revealed that
there is a direct relationship between socioeconomic factors and educational
management in schools. Among others, the study concluded that when staffers
in establishments and institutions are confronted with poor financial income,
poor quality of education, and community safety, they adversely affect
effective educational management in Lagos State, and Nigeria in general. The
study recommends a bottom-top approach to solving the socioeconomic factor
to enhance quality education,

Keywords

Assess, Management, Educational Socio Economic Factor, Policy, Resources

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