ABSTRACT
The study investigated the roles of for quality education. The main purpose of the study was to find out supervisory roles of principals for quality assurance in secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The study adopted five questions and four null hypotheses.
A descriptive survey research design was adopted; the population of the study was 7,602 principals and teachers of public secondary schools in the capital .
Multi stage sampling procedure was adopted to select 40% of public secondary schools using the simple random sampling technique by balloting without replacement. The sample for the study was 10% of the total population for responses to the questionnaire.
The selection of eight teachers for the focus group discussion was purposively carried out via non-probability technique by panel sampling from the senior secondary schools in a zone.
Questionnaire and a focus group discussion guide were for data collection which were validated by experts and went through reliability test to come out with high results of .93, .88, .87, .82, .74, and overall of .93.
Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test.
The t-test revealed on three out of the four hypotheses, no significant differences between the opinions of senior secondary school supervisory team and junior secondary school supervisory team.
The study revealed that principals to great extent accorded desired attention to monitoring of teachers attendance, preparation of lesson note and adequacy of scheme of work while tasks such as provision of instructional materials, check of teachers’ lesson notes.
Feedback to teachers/learners and review of activities with stakeholders were always performed by the principals; teachers were seldom made to serve on committees and the junior team to a little extent use the ICT.
The study concluded that principals should eliminate challenges faced in the tasks of institutional governance, resource input, curriculum delivery and student learning effective via collaboration and goal oriented synergetic interrelationship between the school and the relevant stakeholders.
Strengthen its ability in personnel management, supervisory quality indicators, management of learning environment, impact of teaching-learning effectiveness and strategies to attainment of quality assurance.
On the basis of the findings summary was drawn and recommendations were made that teachers should be made to serve on committees, always motivated, lives of personnel not endangered and they should be encouraged to use the ICT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE I
APPROVAL II
CERTIFICATION III
DEDICATION IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V
TABLE OF CONTENTS VII
LIST OF TABLES X
LIST OF FIGURES XII
ABSTRACT XIV
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
Background of the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 21
Purpose of the Study 22
Significance of the Study 23
Scope of the Study 26
Research Questions 26
Hypotheses 27
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 29
Conceptual Framework 30
Concept of Supervision 30
Concept of Quality 49
Concept of Quality Assurance 52
Concept of Public Secondary Schools 63
Schema 72
Theoretical Framework 75
System Theory by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy 75
Scientific Management Theory by Fredrick Taylor 76
Behavioural Science Theory 77
Review of Empirical Studies 79
Studies Related to Supervision of Instruction 79
Studies Related to Quality Assurance 82
Study Related to Public Secondary Schools 87
Summary of Literature Review 89
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHOD 92
Design of the Study 92
Area of the Study 93
Population of the Study 93
Sample and Sampling Techniques 94
Instruments of Data Collection 95
Validation of Instruments 96
Reliability of the Instruments 97
Methods for Data Collection 98
Method of Data Analysis 98
CHAPTER FOUR: PRESENTATION OF RESULTS 100
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION OF RESULT AND CONCLUSION 122
Discussion of Findings 122
Discussion 122
Focus Group Discussion 131
Educational Implications of Research Findings 136
Conclusion 137
Recommendations of the Research Findings 138
Limitation of the Study 139
Suggestions for Further Studies 141
Summary of the Study 141
REFERENCES: 144
Appendixes
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Nigeria has a vision of becoming one of the 20th developed economies by the year 2020. In order to achieve this, she has identified quality education standard.
The notion of quality education standard encompasses quality learning resources inputs, instructional process, teachers’ capacities development, effective management, monitoring and evaluation, and quality learning outcomes in Secondary Schools (Ayeni, 2012).
This necessitated the application of quality system management standard in the education sector. Quality system management standard in the education sector is supervised from the Ministry of Education, the Boards and right in the schools.
Supervision can be considered from the point of activities directed towards teachers for stimulating professional skills and competencies as a means of promoting instructional effectiveness.
In carry out supervisory roles, the system adopts a two dimensional approach namely; the external supervision approach and the internal supervision approach.
External supervision is the check of the schools from the Ministry of Education and the Boards by educational evaluators, and at times the supervising principals at the zonal offices,
it involve actual visits to the school environment for the purpose of supporting the principals and teachers in the areas of difficulties.
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