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This study endeavored to examine the influence of District School quality assurance
practices on curriculum implementation in Public Primary Schools at Tarime Town
Council in Mara Regional, Tanzania. It was guided by four objectives, that is, to find
out the current supervisory practices used by the DSQA in supervision of Public
Primary Schools, to find out the perceptions of headteachers and teachers on
DSQAO‟s supervision in public primary schools, to identify the challenges facing
DSQA in the supervision of public primary schools and to find out the intervention
measures to be put in place to improve the work performance of DSQA. The study
used mixed research approach and descriptive survey research design. Target
Population was 1 DEO, 5 DSQAO‟s, 120 teachers, 4 head teachers, pupils 4323. The
study sample was 1 DEO, 5 DSQAs, 4 head teachers, 56 teachers and 28 pupils giving
a total of 94 respondents. Ethical consideration was observed. Questionnaires and
interview guides were used for data collection. Quantitative data was summarized and
reduced into tables of frequencies where frequency counts and percentages were used
in the analysis. Qualitative data was summarized, categorized and reported verbatim.
The following findings emerged from the study: The function of DSQA is important to
the management of schools; the officers are few and this compromises their work.
They work under unfavourable conditions in offices, no facilities, secretaries,
stationeries, fuel vehicles to move around to inspect schools. The department is
underfunded by the government in time. The study recommends the following: The
government to increase budgetary allocation to the department in time, employ more
personnel, train the ones who are in service, buy more vehicles and fuel them and
increase the number of supervisors to make it regular for quality education. |
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