ANALYSIS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: THE PERCETION OF BUSINESS TEACHERS IN ENUGU STATE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine the criteria for measuring quality assurance in business education in Enugu State junior secondary schools and the instruments to assure quality business education in the schools. The population of the study consisted of all the business teachers at the junior secondary schools in Enugu State. From the entire population, a sample of 185 business teachers was purposely selected for the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Mean with standard deviation was used to analyze the research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses.
The findings revealed that the criteria for measuring quality assurance in business education include, market demand for business education graduates, research and publications, status of business education curriculum and syllabus and so on. Recommendations were made that, business educators must have adequate academic qualifications to assure quality in business education, and that business education curriculum must be designed to meet international standard and the requirements for the world of work.A