QUALITY ASSURANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF BASIC EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT IN NORTH CENTRAL, NIGERIA
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2020-12-01
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University of Kragugevac, Serbia
Abstract
This study investigated quality assurance and management of basic education
improvement in North-central, Nigeria. The aims of this study are to determine
the relationship between external supervision, classroom-based student
assessment, staff development and management of basic education
improvement in North-central. To achieve this, three hypotheses were
formulated and tested. Quantitative research design was used for the study. The
population of this study comprised all 12,775 head teachers and 93, 201
teachers in public primary schools in North-central. Sample of 375 head
teachers and 384 teachesr were proportionally selected in the seven states with
the use of Research Advisor (2006), table of determining sample size of known
population. Stratified random sampling techniques was used to select head
teachers and teachers of the sample primary schools in order to ensure that
every member of the population has equal right and chance of being selected.
T-test statistical analysis was used to analyze the collected data. The results
show that there was no significant difference between external supervision,
classroom-based student assessment, staff development and management of
basic education in Nigeria. It was therefore, recommended that head teacher
should continue to show concern for effective supervision of all aspects of
education, improve on classroom-based student assessment as well as ensuring
constant staff development in order to enhance effective management of basic
education improvement in Nigeria.
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Quality assurance, management, basic education, supervision, Nigeria