GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study sought to assess on-line platform as a strategy of mitigating against covid-19 effect on the roles of secondary school management board in Imo State. An Expost-facto research design was used for this study. The research area for this study was Imo state. The population of this study comprised policy makers in ministry of education and public school administrators. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 38 respondents as the sample size. The main instrument used in this study was an interview schedule titled “ON-LINE PLATFORM, COVID-19 AND SECONDARY SCHOOL MANAGEMENT BOARD QUESTIONNAIRE (OPCSSMBQ). Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.81 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data obtained to appropriate statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics and simple regression. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels with 36 degree of freedom. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that on-line platform significantly mitigates against COVID-19 effect on the planning, organization and supervision of educational activities in Imo State. One of the recommendations was that the Imo State government should send out the staff of the ministry of education, school administrators and teachers for online training in order to aid them mitigate against COVID-19 effect on the planning, organization and supervision of educational activities in the state.