ASSESSMENT OF ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRTAION OF STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN INTRAMURAL AND EXTRAMURAL SPORTS AS COMPONENTS OFPHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR SKILLS ACQUISITION IN COMMANDSECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERI

Abstract

This study investigated organisation and administration of students’ participation in intramural and extramural
sports components of physical education programme for skills acquisition in command secondary schools in
Nigeria. The population for the study comprised all command secondary schools students with population of
53,294. A total of 381 samples were used for the study. This study employed survey research design in which ex- post facto research design was used to assess students’ participation in intramural and extramural sports
component of physical education programme for skill acquisition in command secondary schools. The
instrument used for data collection was the self –developed questionnaire in which seven research questions and
seven hypotheses were formulated to guide this study. A total of 381 copies of questionnaire were distributed to
the respondents and 374 copies were retrieved while seven copies of the questionnaire were not retrieved due to
the absence of the students in the schools. Descriptive statistics of frequencies and percentages were used to
analyse the demographic characteristics of the respondents, while descriptive statistics of mean and standard
deviation were used to answer the research questions, chi-square was used to analyse all the hypotheses at 0.05
alpha level of significance. This study concluded that students’ participation in intramural and extramural
sports component of physical education programme for skill acquisition in command secondary schools in
Nigeria was significantly influenced by organisation and administration of competition. It was also
recommended that command secondary schools should have standing committees for organisation and
administration of intramural and extramural sports programme for skill acquisition among students.