Quality assurance and teachers’ productivity in Kwara State secondary schools
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2020
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Department of Educational Management , University of Ilorin
Abstract
The poor performance of secondary school student in external examinations over the year has shown that teachers' productivity in Kwara state
secondary schools is low. Thus there is need to ensure high teachers' productivity through appropriate quality assurance strategies. This study therefore investigated the relationship between quality assurance strategies and teachers' productivity in Kwara State secondary schools. Two research questions, one main hypothesis and three operational hypotheses were set to guide the study. Descriptive research design was adopted The sample of the study was 364 out 6,894 teachers in 347 secondary schools in Kwara State. A researcher-designed questionnaire was used to elicit information about quality assurance strategies while student academic performance proforma was used to collect WAEC s Senior School Certificate Examination for five years (used to determine the level of teachers' productivity). Three experts validated the questionnaire while
crumbach alpha was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument at 0. 68. Mean and percentage were used to answer the research questions while Pearson 'sProduct moment correlation statistic was used to test the hypotheses formulated. It wasfound out that there is significant relationship between quality assurance strategies (quality control, inspection and supervision) and teachers'; productivity in Kwara State secondary schools. It was recommended that education supervisors should be frequent and functional in schools inspection while the principal should pay regular visit to the classes in order to ensure quality of classroom delivery.,
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A journal Article by Abdulkareem, R. L. (2020), titled Quality assurance and teachers’ productivity in Kwara State secondary schools. In International Journal of Educational Management. 18 (2); 306-317, Published by Department of Educational Management , University of Ilorin.
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Quality Assurance strategies, Supervision, Teachers' Productivity