Quality Assurance Practice and Instructional Delivery among Secondary School Civic Education Teachers in Kaduna State, Nigeria (Published)
This study assessed Quality Assurance Practice and Instructional Delivery among Secondary School Civic Education Teachers in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Four objectives, questions and null hypotheses each guided the study. The study population was all Civic Education teachers in junior secondary schools in Kaduna state. There are one thousand and eleven (1011) Civic Education Teachers in Kaduna State, out of which a sample of three hundred and twenty-five (325) was selected through purposive and proportionate sampling techniques. Self developed questionnaire titled “Quality Assurance Practices in Instructional Delivery among Civic Education Teachers” (QAPIDCET) was used as instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to present the descriptive data, while the null hypotheses developed were tested using Chi-Square test of independent sample at 0.05 level of significance. The study found, significant positive relationship between the mean scores of male and female Civic Education teachers on adherence to Federal Inspectorate Services (FIS) guidelines on planning of instruction and delivery of instruction. Also, significant positive relationship between the mean scores of urban and rural Civic Education teachers on adherence to FIS guidelines on management of instruction (Classroom Management), while no significant relationship was found between the mean scores of urban and rural Civic Education teachers on adherence to FIS guidelines on evaluation of instruction in secondary schools in Kaduna State. Based on these findings, the study recommended that, the school principals should emphasize internal supervision of instruction in order to ensure that, learning activities specified in the curriculum are considered when writing the lesson plan for Civic Education; Civic Education teachers should endeavour to paid attention to learners’ needs in the course of instruction. This will help to solve learning problems of junior secondary school students in Kaduna state among others.
Keywords: Instructional Delivery & Civic Education Teachers, Quality Assurance Practice