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Home-School Discipline and Enabling Environment Partnership as Predictors of Sustainable Development Goal 4 Attainment in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria

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The study examined home-school discipline and enabling environment partnership as predictors of Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Two (2) research questions and two (2) null hypotheses guided the study. The study design was correlational, the population was 5,833 teachers in the 320 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State with a sample of 400 teachers, selected using Taro Yamane Mathematical Technique and the stratified sampling technique. The instruments for the study were two scales. These were the validated ‘Home-School Discipline and Enabling Environment Partnership Scale’ (HSDEEPS) and ‘Sustainable Development Goal 4 Attainment Scale’ (SDG4AS) with reliability coefficients of 0.84 and 0.87, respectively. Simple regression was used to answer the research questions while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. The findings revealed that home-school discipline partnership predicts Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State to a high extent by 50%, but home-school enabling environment partnership predicts Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State to a very low extent by 11.5%. The study concluded that home-school discipline partnership significantly predicts Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, however, home-school enabling environment partnership does not significantly predict Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was recommended that school administrators, teachers and parents should not be afraid to discipline students, rather they should continue with strategies that are been adopted and at the same time explore alternative measures and not see the provision of an enabling environment as a silver bullet, which should be left in the hands of government alone, rather they should devise means to provide facilities that will promote conducive enabling environment for teaching and learning for both teachers and students to boost academic productivity and to guarantee Sustainable Development Goal 4 attainment.

 

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Mark-Ewa Harmony Eyal, Abraham Nath M (2025). Home-School Discipline and Enabling Environment Partnership as Predictors of Sustainable Development Goal 4 Attainment in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 6(1), 793-802.

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Journal: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE)

Publisher: Anfo Publication House

ISSN: 2582-7138 (Online)

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Language: English

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