QUALITY ASSURANCE AS A TOOL FOR STANDARDIZING BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMING IN UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, ILORIN, NIGERIA
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2021
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Nigerian Journal of Educational Management
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The study is aimed at investigating the relationship between the quality assurance tool and standardization of business education in university of Ilorin, Kwara State. The study was guided by three research questions, and three hypotheses. Questionnaire on quality assurance, (QAQ) was designed and administered. Data were gathered from students of levels 100-400 and from the lecturers of business education. Sample size of 250 was selected from the entire population of 638 students and 22 lecturers. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics for the research questions and Pearson product moment correlation (PPMC) to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that there was a positive relationship between various quality assurance tools and the standardization of business education, and finally that industrial training can serve as a tool for standardization of business education. The study concluded that business education students can get the best of programmes only when the university is very mindful of the quality of the infrastructures and lecturers deployed for business education in the university under study. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that lecturers should properly implement the curriculum contents so as to enhance standardization of business education programme.
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Standardization, Business Education, Quality Assurance, Industrial Training