Review of Parental and School Climate Factors Instrument for Secondary Schools in Nigeria

Abstract

A study on parental and school climate factors was conducted using an adapted instrument, which was tagged parental and school climate scale (PFSCS, with Alpha cronbach of .852).The intention was to observe the scale constructs on JSS Muslim students dropout and non-dropout, whose total population was 1560, consisting  four groups (390 each) in Sokoto metropolis. Studies of other instruments signify that parental and school climate factors cannot be studied using conventional existing instruments reviewed from literatures and theories. This is because of existing differences in sociocultural, religious, economic and political of Sokoto and other global communities. To this background the paper extracted and present adapted research instrument for the parental and school climate factors in Northern Nigeria and indeed Sokoto state. The instrument PFSCS is with 60 items, seven constructs with an Alpha cronbach as follows ([PSES, .602] [PRLOC, .796] [PREBL, .864] [SCHLCUL, .846] [CLSSEC, .894] [SCHLPP, .723] [SCHLADM, .552]).The instrument was validated, pilot tested and factor analysis was conducted. Going by the procedure carried out for the instrument, it justified that the adapted instrument can be retain and be used for future studies on parental and school climate factors on students in state of Northern Nigeria, Sokoto inclusive.

Keywords: Parental factors, school climate, adapted instrument, junior secondary schools, Muslim students.