PERCEIVED STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING QUALITY ASSURANCE ON SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICS TEACHERS IN KOGI EAST EDUCATIONAL ZONE

Abstract

Quality assurance entails the systematic review of educational provision to maintain
and improve its quality, equity and efficiency. This involves self-evaluation, external
evaluation, staff evaluation, student evaluation and school evaluation. The purpose
of the study was to investigate strategies for enhancing quality assurance in physics
education in Kogi East Educational Zone. The study adopted descriptive survey
research design. The population for the study comprised all the physics teachers in
Kogi East. The sample size for the study consisted of 120 physics teachers which
were selected from private and public co-educational secondary schools in the study
area using simple random sampling technique. Two research questions and two
hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for collection of data was a
structured questionnaire, titled: Physics Education Quality Assurance
Questionnaire (PEQAQ), which was developed by the researcher and validated by
experts. The reliability index of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha yielded 0.69.
The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings revealed among others that ensuring functional quality assurance
mechanisms in secondary schools in Kogi East provided positive feedback to
educational management to enhance performance. Based on the findings, the
following recommendations were made. Develop and implement targeted
professional development programmes in Kogi State, focusing on research-based
quality assurance, strategies and contextualized to address local challenges and
needs.