Assessment of students and teachers perception toward challenges of COVID- 19 pandemic in Nasarawa State secondary schools, Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the abrupt shutting down of secondary education and students were told to vacate campuses as one of the measures to curb further infections. On the bases of these, the study investigated assessment of students and teachers perception toward challenges of COVID-19 pandemic in Nasarawa State secondary schools, Nigeria. Two research questions and its corresponding hypotheses were used and descriptive survey design was adopted. The population consisted of all 8,850 teachers and Students 400 were selected as a simple size of this study through random sampling techniques across five senior secondary schools. Students and Teachers Perception Questionnaire on COVIC-19 Pandemic (STPQCP) contained 12 items. STPQCP was validated by experts yielded 0.82 validity index and 0.84 reliability index using Cronbach Alpha. STPQCP was administered and the data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics to answered research questions and t-test and ANOVA was used to test null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significant.