Strategies Considered Effective by Business Educators for Quality Assurance in Business Education Programme in Universities in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

The study was designed to find out the strategies considered effective by business educators for quality assurance in business education programme in universities in south-south Nigeria. Two research questions were posed and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Population of the study comprised fifty four business educators in universities in south-south Nigeria. The study was on a descriptive survey design. Data were collected for the study through the administration of validated questionnaire on the respondents. The test-retest method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and the overall correlation coefficient of 0.94 was obtained. The mean statistics were used to answer the research questions while z-test statistic and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that business educators considered Moderation of examination results and In-service training given to career academic as effective strategies for quality assurance in business education programme. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that these strategies be properly monitored to ensure quality assurance in business education programme in universities.