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Quality Control And Student Academic Performance
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The federal inspectorate service of the Federal Ministry of Education is directly responsible for quality control and maintenance of standards in institutions below the tertiary level. Decree No 16 of 1985 outlined it’s objectives to include:
• Maintain minimum standards in education practice nationwide.
• Operate common system of education practice nationwide.
• Introduce classroom innovation
• Achieve quality education in Nigeria
Unfortunately, the inspectorate services both at the state and federal levels have not lived up to expectation. This is because the inspectorate service is plagued by a number of issues and challenges. A study carried out by Ogunu (2001) revealed that inadequate number of inspectors, inadequate funds for inspection, lack of transportation among others were some of the problems encountered by inspectors.
The issue of quality control cannot be over-emphasized. It is one of the strategies for establishing quality assurance in the inferior education system at all levels. Ojedele (2007) views that; quality control should be of concerns to the country in its drive towards technological development. For this to be successfully carried out, there is need to examine the qualification of teachers, teachers gender, the adequacy of the curriculum, availability of equipment in the required number as well as the proper use of the processes involved in the various skills to ensure that the finished products are of high standard.
TECHNIQUES OF QUALITY CONTROL
The techniques used for quality control in education include:
Monitoring:
Monitoring can be defined as “an ongoing process by which stakeholders obtain regular feedback on the progress being made towards goals and objectives†(United Nations Development Programme,2009). Monitoring is an important source of information for program evaluation. Ehindero (2001 )defined monitoring as the process of collecting data at intervals about ongoing projects, school teaching and learning activities as well as programmes within the school system. The aim is to constantly assess the level of performance with a view of finding out how far a set of objectives are being met. Monitoring is a continuous assessment that aims at providing all stakeholders with early detailed information on the progress or delay of the ongoing assessed activities. It is an oversight of the activity’s implementation stage. Its purpose is to determine if the outputs, deliveries and schedules planned have been reached so that action can be taken to correct the deficiencies as quickly as possible (Wikipedia, 2015). Monitoring is the internal project activity of providing feedback to project management on the progress of the project, the problems it is facing, and the efficiency with which is being implemented (HariHuijsman 2002). Monitoring is a system of activities with three critical components: it requires the regular collection of information, evaluation of that information, and most importantly, it the evaluation results in an institutional (project) action (Kiesler and Sproull, 2008).
Monitoring as technique of Quality Control include:
i. Input monitoring: The assessment of human and physical resources in a project, and whether they are expended as planned, is called input monitoring. It is to ensure that a project is of rating at some predetermined standard, in other words, a project is operating as stated in its plan of operation. Input monitoring is mostly directly to the input of a project in the educational system. Examples of input monitoring are the administration of the distribution of textbooks to schools, or an account of delivery of in-service workshops to teachers.
ii. Process monitoring: It is directed to the process in which a project is involved, in order to assure that these processes are indeed contributing to the expected output. Example of process monitoring are the assessment of whether distributed textbooks are being used in schools, or the investigation of whether lecturers are participating in in-service training as was planned.
iii. Performance monitoring: The assessment of whether the project achieves the planned change in the educational system is called performance monitoring. Examples of performance monitoring are the study of whether students have mastered the content of the textbooks, or a report on whether the teachers have changed their teaching strategies
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QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]QUESTIONNAIREUniversity of IlorinDepartment of Primary Education Studies Quality Control and Student Academic Performance Questionnaire (QCASAPQ)Dear Sir/Ma,This questionnaire is designed to investigate the quality control and students academic performances in Ilorin metropolis.Please, you are requested to answer the questions honestly, as your response will assist in assessing the quality control on student academic performance in senior secondary school in Ilorin metropolis.SECTION A:Name of ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Operational definitions In this study, the researcher made use of some terms which are considered necessary to be operationally defined. There are:Quality: This is the standard or degree of measuring educational excellence of student cognition skills in senior secondary schools.Control: This is the measure adopted by the school to ensure the conformity of the institution in accordance with the laid own procedures. Quality control: This refers to the effective management of the school to me ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER THREERESEARCH METHODOLOGY This chapter deals with the method and procedure employed to carry out this study. Specifically, it focuses on the following:• Research Design • Population, Sample and Sampling Technique • Instrumentation • Procedure for Data Collection • Method of Data Analysis Research Design The researcher’s used descriptive design. The method was found appropriate for the study because it involves a systemati ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]OPERATIONAL HYPOTHESES Hoi: there is no significant relationship between school administration and student’s academic performance in senior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis.Table 5 indicated that calculated r value of .897 was greater than the table value of 0.195 at 0.05 level significance. Thus, the null hypotheses which states that there is no significance relationship between school administration and students’ Academic performance was rejected. Therefore, there is ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FIVESUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS This chapter presented the summary and conclusion dawn from the research carried out with recommendations based on the finding of the study.SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS The study investigated the quality control and students Academic performance in Ilorin metropolis. The research design adopted for the study was a descriptive survey. The study used random sampling technique to select 10 senior secondary school and 100 participants. ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCEAdam, B. (2011). Human resources as the wealth of national. New York: the free pressAsari, M. (2006). Classroom, climate, pupils aspiration and capacity building. Lagos: key publishers Adegbesan, S. O. (2011) established quality assurance in Nigeria education system implications for education managers. National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA).Adepoju TL (2005). Principles and practice of primary education in Nigeria. Ibadan: corporate publishers.Ajayi T, an ... Continue reading---
