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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Colleges of
Education in Nigeria are established with the sole mandate to train competent,
knowledgeable, resourceful, conscientious, and highly motivated teachers for
the Basic Education level. Therefore, there is need for appropriate mechanism
to be put in place for the actualization of the Institution’s mandate. In order
to achieve the objectives of establishing Colleges of Education, quality
assurance is mandatorily required. This research work centered on the level of
implementation of quality assurance in Colleges of Education in South-South
Region of Nigeria. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated
to guide the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted and a research
instrument titled: ‘Level of Implementation of Quality Assurance Mechanism in
Colleges of Education (LIQAMCE) was used to generate data for the study. The
population comprised of all the Colleges of Education and staff in the South-
South Region of Nigeria. A purposeful sample of six Colleges was selected and
one hundred (100) respondents comprising teaching and non-teaching staff were
selected from each of the six colleges. The total respondents sample was 600.
The main thrust of the study was to determine the level of implementation of
quality assurance in Colleges of Education in relation to; its existence of
directorate/units, appropriateness in composition of membership committee,
compliance to guiding principles and roles of quality assurance,
lecturer’s/students ratio and accreditation/ re-accreditation status. A
descriptive analysis technique and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to
test the research questions and hypotheses respectively. The results showed a
very high percentage that there are existence of quality assurance
directorates/units in Colleges, high percentage in disagreement with the
appropriate composition of membership, high percentage revealed compliance to
the guiding principles and roles, lecturers/students ratio and
accreditation/re-accreditation status respectively. The findings using the
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics revealed significant in the existence
of quality assurance directorates/units, membership composition, compliance to
guiding principles and roles, lecturers’/students ratio and
accreditation/re-accreditation status. This means that all the variables under
study influence or enhances Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The paper
therefore, recommends, among others, that the National Commission for Colleges
of Education should strictly supervise, monitor and evaluate Colleges regularly
to ensure that they complied with policies in relation to quality assurance
geared towards producing quality teachers for Basic Education.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2024 pp. 1-10