Management of Knowledge application through Community Service and Institutional Effectiveness in Colleges of Education in South-South Zone, Nigeria

Institutional effectiveness refers to the ongoing process through which an institution measures its performance against its stated mission and goals for the purpose of evaluation and improvement. Knowledge application through Community service by Lecturers to enhance their Institutional effectiveness in College of Education was investigated. This mandate is usually neglected by the Lecturers. A survey design was adopted for the study and census sampling technique was used because the population of Heads of Departments from four Colleges Education in South-South Zone, Nigeria was small. Knowledge Application Through Community Service and Institutional Effectiveness Questionnaire (KATCSIEQ), a researcher constructed instrument was used to obtained data from the subjects and independent t-test was used to analyzed the data. The results show among others that; there is significant difference between knowledge application through Community service and institutional effectiveness in College of Education. It was therefore recommended that researchers and Management of Institutions should encourage the use of Community service to enhance institutional effectiveness in College of Education.