COLLEGIALITY: A TOOL FOR PROMOTING LECTURERS' EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERING FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN E N T R E P R E N E U R I A L S T U D I E S I N N I G E R I A N T E RT I A RY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The study investigated the relevance of collegiality in Nigerian tertiary institutions (Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education). It determined the role collegiality would play in the promotion of lecturers' effective instructional delivering in entrepreneurial studies to guarantee quality assurance. A total number of 100 entrepreneurial studies lecturers from five public tertiary institutions in Edo state constituted the study population and no sampling was done because the population size was manageable. Two research questions guided the study and the survey research design approach was adopted for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated and tested for its
reliability using Cronbach Apha and a reliability value of 0.87 was obtained. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that lecturers' collegiality (collegial pair, collegial group and collegial mentoring) would promote professional dialogue to enhance lecturers' teaching proficiencies and promote their collaborative problem solving technique with maximum cooperation on issues that would have lowered individual lecturer's attrition rate in the teaching career. It would equally eradicate sentimental attitudes that could be inimical to their effective instructional delivering practice. Against this backdrop it was recommended among others that collegiality should be encouraged among lecturers in order to break the barrier of isolation in teaching and sentimental attitudes to ensure lecturers' teaching proficiencies that could guarantee quality assurance in
entrepreneurial studies in Nigerian tertiary institutions.