DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2013.v01i01.003

Pages: 17-24

Teacher quality management strategies, used synonymously with teacher quality planning structures in this study, refer to measures put in place by teachers, principals and Tutors-General/Permanent Secretaries to improve teacher quality. Thus, the study has the purpose of establishing the extent to which each of the Education Districts in Lagos State contributed towards quality education (through teacher quality and management strategies between 2008-2010). With the study’s foundation anchored on correlational and descriptive research designs, its population was the 6 Tutors-General/Permanent Secretaries in Lagos State, the 9,796 teachers and the 333 principals of the senior secondary schools as at 2010. The sample sizes were 6 Tutors-General/Permanent Secretaries, 97 principals and 2,391 teachers after stratifying into districts and selected through the simple random technique. Four instruments were used to collect data. These included ‘District Teacher Quality Management Strategies Questionnaire (DTQMSQ)’ – r=0.91, School Teacher Quality Management Strategies Questionnaire (STQMSQ)’ – r=0.89, ‘Teacher Quality Management Questionnaire’ (TQMQ) – r=0.87 and WASSCE results. Analysis was carried out using ANOVA and regression model. Findings indicated that no significant difference was found in teacher quality management strategies among the six Education Districts in Lagos State; and a significant (inverse) relationship existed between academic performance and improved teacher quality in the six Education Districts of Lagos State. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made among which are that the minimum standard of first degree (education) into the teaching profession should be maintained; the establishment of teacher quality planning structures for teachers; every District should establish education resource centres for teachers; and that the Education Districts and state government should assist teachers, not only in the area of computer training and