QUALITY CONTROL VARIABLES AS DETERMINANT OF QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN NURSERY/ PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IBADAN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT, IBADAN, OYO STATE

Abstract

Ensuring quality control in today’s nursery/primary schools has become a challenge. Quality control has become essential for stakeholders in the education sector and they need to harness the tools of quality control to ensure quality education in the nursery and primary schools in Ibadan south local government, Ibadan. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design, while simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting two hundred (200) participants from the selected study area. Questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants. Linear Regression Test was used. Result showed significant relationship between funding and teacher quality at B= -432, P<.05, management organizing skill and teacher quality at B =.513, P<.05 and supervision and teacher quality at B =.632, P<.05. The study recommended that quality of education can further be enhanced by ensuring that various quality control measures are put in place in the nursery/primary schools in the local government area of concern in this study.