QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated extent of quality assurance in educational management and planning for sustainable national development in Nigeria. The study adopts survey research design. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study.The population of the study comprised all 750 level 400 hundred students of state universities in Rivers State. The sample size of 384 students of level 400 students were selected for the study through simple random sampling technique. The instrument titled Quality Assurance in Educational Management Planning for Sustainable National DevelopmentQuestionnaire(QAEMPSNDQ) were used for data collections. The instrument was rated in four points rating scale of strongly agree. (SA)=4points, agree (A)=3points, strongly disagree (SD)=2points and disagree (D)=1point. The data of the study was collected by personal hand delivery of the instrument to the respondents. Research assistants were trained and used for the data collection. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach's Alpha reliability method and the overall reliability coefficient of the instrument stood 0.70 which was deemed adequate for the study. The data collected from the instruments were analyzed using Regression Analysis. The result obtained from the data analysis revealed that quality assurance in educational management and planning predicts sustainable national development in Nigeria. The study recommends that more study on the impact of quality assurance in educational management andplanning for sustainable national development in Nigeria should be conducted, and also school administrators should take quality assurance as priority in their respective schools for sustainable national development.