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Quality Control And Student Academic Performance
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Nwaogu (2004) opines that supervision is the process of bringing about improvement in instruction by working with people who are working with pupils. Ezeocha (2008) explains supervision as a process which aims at helping teachers to become self-directive, creative and more productive.
By synthesizing all the definition above, the term supervision has been defined various scholars in the field of education, they all agreed to the fact that the improvement of instruction is a co-operative process in which all the teachers participate and the supervisor is an educational leader who act as a stimulator, guide and consultant to teacher in their effort to improve instruction. According to Akinwumiju and Agabi (2008) instructional supervision is a collaborative effort involving a set of activities designed to improve the teaching and learning process. The purpose of supervision is not to find fault or to punish, but rather to work cooperatively with the teacher. Supervision as the element of the administrative process is concerned with efforts to guide the day-to-day activities of the work group by stimulating, directing and coordinating the workers and their efforts, cultivating good working personal relationships so that they all work towards a more efficient achievement of the task goal.
INSPECTION
Inspection usually involves an assessment of available facilities and resources in an institution with a view to establishing how far a particular institution has met prescribed standards. It is more of an assessment than an improvement induced exercise (West Burham, 2004). This could be cultivated and internally coordinated from time to time. The essence of which is to establish how far the school or the various departments meet prescribed standard. It should be more of self-assessment rather than externally induced exercise. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of current English (2013), defined the inspection as “examine carefully†or “visit officially to see that rules are obeyed and that work is done properly†Beyond this definition, the main emphasis of inspection is on the improvement of learning and teaching activities in the school. It tends to critically examine and evaluate the school as a place for teaching-learning enterprise.
Inspection, because of its focus on monitoring and evaluation of academic performance and development in schools, is always carried out with the intention of maintaining and improving on the quality of learning of students. It tends to improve all factors that affect teaching and learning in our school system. Inspection is always initiated by agents external to the school. These agents, called Inspectors usually from the Federal, State or Local Government Inspectorate Services. As earlier mentioned, their focus is on monitoring, evaluating and facilitating the teaching/learning activities in schools. They also ensure that effective and appropriate teachings methods are used.
Where deficiencies have been observed, they often recommend the use of remedial actions. At the end of inspection visits, reports are usually written to detail identified strengths and weaknesses of the school with appropriate recommendations for improvement.
RATIONALE FOR SCHOOL INSPECTION
The Inspector’s Manual (FME, 2001) advanced the following reasons for school inspection:
• Schools are complex social organizations whose core activity is that of educating people in a multi-faceted process. Teaching is in itself a quite demanding job that involves a series of energy-sapping activities. Consequently, teachers often have little time for self-evaluation or self-training. School-level supervision is, more often than not, haphazard and infrequent. There is therefore a need for an external agent to help teachers to assess their work now and again with a view to reinforcing effective pedagogical methods and proposing appropriate remedial action where professional lapses have been observed.
• In some parts of the country, schools are still staffed by poorly-trained and incompetent teachers whose retention on the job may be owing to some factors other than the expectation of their improvement on the job. As the head teacher may be unable to help them professionally or may even be unwilling to expose their incompetence, inspections often fill this need.
• Parents and school proprietors often yearn for external reports to supplement the self-congratulatory ones with which schools tend to supply them through such channels as letters, school magazines or speech days. It is inspection reports that meet this expectation by giving objective information about the strengths and weaknesses of a school and suggesting ways in which identified weaknesses can be removed.
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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---
