TY  - JOUR
T1  - Personnel Motivational and Supervisory Practices for Quality Assurance in Adult Education
Programmes in South-East, Nigeria
AU - Justina Igwe, Ngozi AU - Nwarube Edeh, Esther AU - Darl Ochiagha, Chubuike AU - Ojowu Ochim, James AU - Dorida Oyigbo, Nneka AU - Maryrose Ugwunnadi, Chinasa AU - Chibuike Onwuadi, Charles AU - Chioma Nwizu, Stella 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 13
SP  - 2653
EP  - 2662
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.2653.2662
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.2653.2662
KW  - adult education programmes
KW  -quality assurance
KW  -personnel supervision
KW  -Personnel motivation
KW  -parastatals
AB  - The study investigated personnel motivational
and supervisory practices for quality assurance in adult
education programmes in South-East, Nigeria. The study
was guided by two specific purposes, two research
questions and two corresponding null hypothesis. A
descriptive survey design was adopted for the study while
the population of the study consisted 4.140 respondents
comprising five directors, 95 unit coordinators and 4.040
facilitators of adult education programmes in the five
South-East states of Nigeria. The sample size for the
study was 755 respondents, in selecting the sample
composition, the entire population of five directors
and 95 unit coordinators were used due to their
manageable size while multi-stage sampling techniques
was adopted to select 655 facilitators from the total
population of 4.040. The instrument for data collection
was a researcher’s 16-item structured questionnaire titled
“Personnel motivational and Supervisory Practices for
Quality Assurance Questionnaire” (PMSPQAQ). The
instrument was face validated by three experts and its
reliability coefficient ascertained using Cronbach’s alpha
method. The research questions were answered using
mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis were
tested at 0.05 level of significance using Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA). The data analyses revealed among
others that: the personnel motivational and supervisory
practices for quality assurance are prompt payment of
salaries and allowances of adult education personnel;
provision of adequate personnel and job security
measures; provision of instructional materials to the
facilitators; conducive working environment; continuous
in-service training; fairness in the promotion of adult
education personnel and setting up favorable personnel
policies which will promote job satisfaction. It also
revealed that there were significant differences in mean
ratings of the directors, unit coordinators and adult
education facilitators as regards the two null hypothesis
that guided the study. Based on the findings of the study,
some recommendations were made amongst which were
that; NMEC and SAME should partner with international
organizations and NGOs in enhancing the working
conditions of adult education personnel. They should
commit more funds towards the improvement of adult
education personnel welfare, so as to attract as well as
retain the services of the right caliber of individuals in the
field. Their salaries and other welfare packages should at
least be commensurable to the ones received by their
counterparts in other governmental parastatals.
ER  -