ENSURING QUALITY IN THE TEACHING OF ACCOUNTING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

The paper examined various ways of ensuring quality assurance in the teaching of accounting in secondary schools. The area of the study was Abakaliki urban, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study. The population of the study consisted of 60 accounting teachers in secondary schools situated in Abakaliki urban, there was no sampling. A four response item questionnaire was used for data collection. Mean with standard deviation was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that the accounting curriculum is adequate and teachers most times follow the scheme in the instructional delivery. It was, however, found that teachers do not make adequate use of the instructional materials and students are not normally involved during lesson delivery. Moreover, supervisory activities were generally observed to be weak and
haphazard, and there was absence of feedback mechanism from the students. It was suggested that supervision of teachers should be enforced with vigor to ensure that teachers make adequate use of the instructional materials and cover the scheme of work for optimum preparation of the students for external examinations. It was also suggested that strategies should be evolved to build in a feedback mechanism from students in quality assurance process of financial accounting.