Effect of Administrative Planning Processes on Teaching and Learning Outcomes in Selected Faculties at the University of Ilorin
ABSTRACT
This study evaluated the impact of administrative planning procedures on teaching and learning outcomes in selected faculties at the University of Ilorin. The study used a descriptive survey methodology. 690 individuals participated in the research, including 187 deans, 315 quality assurance officers, and 188 officials from the department of policy implementation. Using a simple random selection method, 67 Deans, 113 QAOs, and 68 DPI officials were chosen for the research. The instrument for data collection was a forty-item self-structured questionnaire titled “Influence of Administrative planning processes on Teaching and Learning Outcomes Questionnaire” (IMESTLQ) with a Likert rating scale of Strongly Agreed (SA), Agreed (A), Undecided (U), Disagreed (D), and Strongly Disagreed (SD) (SD). The Department’s supervisors confirmed the instrument, and the final draft was pilot-tested. The result of 0.84 indicated its reliability. The mean scores, percentages, and standard deviation were utilized to answer the study questions, while one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at a significance level of 0.05 was employed to assess the hypotheses. The results resulted in the preservation of all hypotheses. The research indicated that administrative planning procedures by University of Ilorin deans, QAOs, and DPI officials had a significant impact on teaching and learning results in selected faculties.
This is the outcome of routine quality assurance procedures. Recommendations include that Quality Assurance Officers, the Department of Policy Implementation, and Deans of Schools strengthen their efforts on the continual evaluation of the education system. In addition, ContinuousAssessment of school records by quality assurance officials, the DPI, and deans will improve the teaching and learning results at the University of Ilorin. As a result, these actions should be emphasized during school supervision, inspection, and monitoring. The Quality Assurance Officer, DPI, and Deans should prioritize the evaluation of lesson plans and class notes. Continuous assessment records should play a major role in the instructional supervision process of Quality Assurance Officers, the Department of Public Instruction, and school deans. For the improvement of the Nigerian educational system, suggestions for further research were made.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 CONTEXT OF THE STUDY
Education is a crucial instrument for national development that can only be obtained via the educational system. It generates the human capital that leverages all other production components to deliver the necessary output for nation development. Teaching and learning outcomes is a process that can only be efficient with an efficient framework for checks and balances, such as efficient administrative planning procedures. Monitoring is the intermittent and attentive observation of something over a period of time in order to observe its development and make any required adjustments. Evaluation, on the other hand, involves doing a critical analysis of a planned program in order to determine the degree of achievement of predetermined goals and objectives. It is a tool for giving students, instructors, and policymakers with feedback.
Through assessment, program deficiencies are identified in order to devise remedial actions for improvement. Therefore, the administrative planning procedures are a true instrument for enhancing the educational system. In this manner, school supervisors and inspectors, also known as quality assurance officers, guarantee that classroom teaching is enhanced by making lecturers more aware of their obligations. Therefore, increasing their skills and making them more responsible. The primary purpose of monitoring and supervision is to assure the daily application of curriculum in our schools. The administrative planning process employs a variety of strategies in order to accomplish its goals, including: regular evaluation of the school system through quality assurance inspection, school records assessment, ensuring that lesson notes and plans are reviewed prior to lesson delivery, use of continuous assessment for students to determine their level of performance, and annual performance evaluation of lecturers as a benchmark for promotion.
The administrative planning processes and the DPI section of the FCDA Education Secretariat serve the same purpose as the previous inspectorate division. Despite attempts to resolve inconsistencies in the quality of teaching and learning outcomes in Ilorin schools via the development of the administrative planning processes unit, there seemed to be considerable room for improvement. Students’ internal and external examination results are not very spectacular, and professors’ output is declining. This necessitates attempting to rectify the issue before it entirely spirals out of control. This is the impetus for this investigation. Thus, the research titled “Influence of administrative planning processes on teaching and learning outcomes at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin” is an effort to explore precisely how administrative planning processes affect teaching and learning results at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin. This is done in an effort to give information that would assist excellent teaching and learning outcomes in selected faculties at the University of Ilorin.
1.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Over the years, Nigeria has seen a succession of depressing pictures emanating from its educational system, which has caused it agony and misery. The educational achievement of kids has been dropping (Olaofe, 2005). From the second part of the 1950s until the late 1970s, Nigeria’s educational growth reached its zenith (Ojo, 1996). The quality of education was generally good at all levels of the country’s educational system. However, this no longer holds true.
The alterations seem to have begun very gradually in the 1970s, accelerated in the 1980s, and have now reached an alarming level. The number of applicants enrolling for WAEC/SSCE has expanded geometrically, but the number of those who pass with 5 credits or more, including Mathematics and English language, has steadily fallen (Inuwa, 2007).
Central Bank of Nigeria (1995) listed the causes of this marked decline in educational performance as shortage of qualified lecturers, inadequate financial and infrastructural facilities, deteriorating moral values in the society, government and school misplaced priority due to inadequate administrative planning processes of the system.
In Ilorin, several entities are responsible for the administrative planning of the educational system. These include executives from the Department of Policy Implementation (DPI), the Quality Assurance Unit, and faculty deans. A cross-examination of these educational quality controls reveals that they all have the same goals: to audit schools and their records, such as lesson notes and curriculum material, in order to assure the quality of teaching and learning and to improve student achievement in our schools.
How have the efforts of these monitoring officers affected the teaching/learning performance of lecturers in Ilorin? Are the different school records such as class notes, diaries, and evaluation of the curriculum adequately monitored and maintained?
This situation has caused many Nigerians, especially stakeholders, to be worried about the condition of the education system. In light of this, the researcher undertook this investigation on the impact of administrative planning procedures on teaching and learning outcomes in chosen faculties of the University of Ilorin. This will allow people associated in the educational delivery services to determine the appropriateness of inspectors, school records, lesson notes/plans, continuous assessment, and their impact on teaching and learning results.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The research was designed to accomplish the following goals:
to determine the influence of appraisal of school systems performance on teaching and learning outcomes in the University of Ilorin of Ilorin; ii. to examine the influence of school record assessment on teaching and learning outcomes in Selected faculties in the University of Ilorin; iii. to determine the influence of assessment of lesson plans and notes on teaching and learning outcomes in Selected faculties in the University of Ilorin; and iv. to determine the influence of assessment of student performance on teaching and learning outcomes in the University
Various faculties of the University of Ilorin.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The investigator sought answers to the following questions:
How does evaluation of the school system affect teaching and learning results in certain faculties at the University of Ilorin? ii. What impact does school records evaluation have on teaching and learning outcomes in selected faculties at the University of Ilorin?
In what way does the evaluation of lesson plans and lecture notes impact teaching and learning results in certain faculties at the University of Ilorin?
How does continuous assessment affect the teaching and learning results in certain faculties at the University of Ilorin?
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
Following theories were proposed and examined:
Deans, Quality Assurance Officials, and Department of Policy Implementation Officials at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin have similar views about the impact of school system evaluation on teaching and learning results. The perspectives of Deans, Quality Assurance Officials, and Department of Policy Implementation Officials on the impact of school record evaluation on teaching and learning outcomes at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin are not significantly different.
Deans, Quality Assurance Officials, and Department of Policy Implementation Officials at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, do not vary significantly in their appraisal of the impact of evaluating lesson plans and lecture notes on teaching and learning results.
Deans, Quality Assurance Officials, and Department of Policy Implementation Officials do not vary significantly in their evaluation of the impact of continuous assessment on teaching and learning outcomes in chosen faculties at the University of Ilorin.
1.6 BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
This investigation was performed because:
Administrative planning methods are essential components of the University of Ilorin’s school and educational system for achieving excellent performance in designated faculties.
Administrative planning processess are essential components of the University of Ilorin of Ilorin’s school and educational system in terms of school record evaluation. iii. In terms of the evaluation of lesson plans and class notes at the University of Ilorin of Ilorin, the administrative planning procedures are critical components of the school and educational system. iv. Administrative planning procedures are essential components of the University of Ilorin’s educational system in terms of continual evaluation in chosen faculties.
1.7 Importance of the Research
This research aims to investigate the impact of administrative planning procedures on teaching and learning outcomes at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin. It will go a long way in giving information that will be employed by a variety of individuals, including department of policy and implementation officials, quality assurance officers, and deans of departments. The research will give planners and administrators with information that will aid them in decision-making, especially as it applies to recruitment and placement of personnel in charge of administrative planning procedures in individual schools. The research will assist them in identifying gaps in the administrative planning procedures at the University of Ilorin. The research would offer DPI and QAO officials with a method for receiving feedback on their performance in administrative planning processes activities. It will give the Deans with the required information to allow them to strengthen their position in their particular schools’ administrative planning processes.
1.8 SCOPE OF STUDY
This research investigates the impact of administrative planning procedures on teaching and learning outcomes at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin. It sought to determine if administrative planning methods at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin had an impact on teaching and learning results. School administrators (Deans), Department of Policy and Implementation Officers, and Quality Assurance Officers of Ilorin participated in the study.