Volume : II, Issue : IX, September - 2013

Doctoral Research in Education and Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Ngwoke, Dominic U. , Eskay, Micheal, Numonde, Davidson

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The study assessed the status of quality assurance mechanisms in doctoral research in Education in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A total of 58 doctorate students randomly drawn from seven departments of the Faculty of Education, UNN constituted the sample for this study. The instrument was a quality assurance questionnaire (QAQ) that sought information on eight critical indices of quality assurance mechanisms in Postgraduate Education. Data were presented using Means and Standard Deviation scores. Results indicated that quality assurance mechanism was implemented to a great extent in the areas of introduction to doctorate studies for newly enrolled students and supervision. It was also found that the extent of implement of quality assurance mechanisms was not much in the areas of professional development, taught courses, refection to values and contribution to society as well as the learning environment conditions. It was therefore recommended among others that study environment should be improved upon to stimulate the students’ creativity to guarantee quality in their research work.

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Ngwoke, Dominic U., Eskay, Micheal, Numonde, Davidson Doctoral Research in Education and Quality Assurance Mechanisms International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 9 September 2013

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