IMPROVING INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE MECHANISM IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD

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Abstract The Nigeria educational system is faced with the challenge of repositioning her educational system to meet the national and international expectations. This call for functional mechanism to ensure those standards and monitor performance at all levels of education in Nigeria. The paper therefore examined the need for improving internal quality assurance mechanism in computer education programme. The paper also examined the concept of quality assurance, parameters for measuring quality assurance, challenges facing quality assurance and strategies that can be adopted to assure quality. The paper recommended among other things: need for Supervision of instruction and teaching effectiveness, need for government to institute a periodic workshops and conferences where experience professionals are invited to talk to education undergraduates, the need for qualified and experienced teachers, qualified students and finally the need for curriculum review from time to time so as to make it relevant to present day needs. The paper concludes that quality assurance is a continuous phenomenon and should be observed always.

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