Relationship among Quality Assurance Practices and Students’ Academic Performance in Colleges of Education in North West Zone, Nigeria

The study assessed the relation among quality assurance practices and students’ academic performance in Colleges of Education in North West Zone, Nigeria. The study employed correlational survey research design. The population of the study is 70 but since the researcher adopted purposive sampling the hole population was used as a sample size were used to select 70 quality assurance and 277 students from 7 purposely selected state-owned colleges of education in North-West Zone, Nigeria using research advisors (2006). Two researcher developed instruments were used as instrument for data collection: Quality Assurance Assessment Questionnaire (QAAQ) and Academic Performance Assessment Tool (APAT), which utilized the Grade Point Average (GPA) as a measurable indicator of academic performance. The face and contents validated were done by experts in the Department of Educational Management, Sokoto State University, with reliability indices of Quality Assurance Assessment Questionnaire (QAAC) at 0.97 and 0.05 respectively. However, the data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC), Coefficient at 0.05 level of significance to determine the relationship. The study revealed that there is a significant relationship between effective evaluation and students’ academic performance in Colleges of Education in North-West, Nigeria;, the study also showed a strong positive and statistically significant Relationship between programme planning and students’ academic performance in North-West, Nigeria;, the study also indicated a positive and statistically significant Relationship between resource control and students’ academic performance in North-West, Nigeria. These results underscore that educational leadership and administrative practices are not peripheral, but central determinants of academic quality in tertiary institutions.