ETHICAL SUPERVISION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BENUE NORTH EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Ethical supervisory practices, quality assurance, constructive criticism, impartial performance feedbackAbstract
This study investigated ethical supervision and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Benue North East Senatorial District, Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 1,496 teachers from the existing 114 public secondary schools in North East Senatorial District of Benue State, Nigeria. A sample of 239 teachers representing 16% of 1, 496 teachers drawn from 18 secondary schools representing 16% of 114 public secondary schools was used for the study. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used. The instrument used for data collection was ‘‘Ethical Supervision and Quality Assurance Questionnaire (ESQAQ)”. The questionnaire contained 10 items on the two variables of the study. The instrument was structured on four-point rating scale of Strong Agree (SA)=4, Agree (A)=3, Disagree (D)=2 and Strongly Disagree (1)=1. Face and content validity of the questionnaire was carried out by three experts in the Department of Educational Foundations, Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and it yielded reliability coefficient of 0.86. Data collected were analyzed using Mean scores and Standard Deviations to answer the research questions. The hypotheses were tested using Chi-square test of goodness of fit at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that ethical supervision practices such as constructive criticism and impartial performance evaluation have positive significant impact on quality assurance in public secondary schools in Benue North East Senatorial District, Nigeria. The study concluded that improved ethical supervisory practices leads to improved quality assurance in public secondary schools. It was recommended that school administrators and supervisors in public secondary schools should promote the consistent use of constructive criticism and impartial performance evaluation during school supervision to bring about improved quality assurance in public secondary schools.
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