QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTROL IN LEARNING ASSESSMENTS: PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN NIGERIA EDUCATION

Abstract

Quality assurance and control in learning is an important component in maintaining standards and excellence in Nigeria educational systems and it cannot be compromised. Any attempt to compromise will automatically distort and alter the intended results predesigned for setting up our educational institutions of learning. It is a watchdog, and must be effective and very functional in the educational systems. Quality assurance and control ensures the credibility and reliability of learning assessment in the educational system. Through these mechanisms, teachers, instructors and the entire school systems are able to establish and maintain standards of excellence in teaching and learning. This paper therefore makes bare the scope and relevance of quality assurance and control in the educational system, forms of assessments and assessment models in content delivery. Some of the suggestions raised amongst others are; Learning should be aimed to achieve intended outcomes and standardized criteria should be deployed during assessment for learning, the information gathered through assessment should be applied during learning evaluation by the assessors, while other stakeholders should be encouraged to partake in quality assurance and control processes so as to acquire the desired skills and competency for carrying out effective assessment for learning towards the actualization of standards in the educational systems..