Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study examined school adjustment and gender of safe school initiative and non-safe school initiative students in Federal Government Colleges in Sokoto state. Two research questions, objectives and research hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey designed. The population of this study was 59 safe-school initiative and 387 non-safe school initiative students and thus, all the 446 students were used as sample for this study through purposive sampling technique. A researcher designed School Adjustment Questionnaire (SAQ) was used for data collection in this study. The questionnaire was validated by experts in measurement and evaluation from the Faculty of Education Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto and Sokoto State University and a reliability index of 0.82 was obtained through Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistics. Hypotheses Ho1 and Ho2 were subjected to t-test analysis using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. The results of the study revealed male and female Safe School Initiative students and non-safe school initiative students of Federal Government Colleges in Sokoto State do not differ significantly in their school adjustment. Based on these findings, recommendations were made that teachers and counsellors should help both male and female non-safe school initiative students in their school adjustment through mentoring and regular counselling as this could help them adjustment properly in school.