ASSESSING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

The concern for Preparing Successful Principals has been a major research effort by the Wallace Foundation and Stanford University in conjunction examining development of strong leadership in school administration. This presupposes the importance of school leadership in enhancing the achievement of educational goals. School administration has been a critical part in building a formidable school for quality assurance because the internal administrative system determines how the staff and students cooperatively pull efforts towards achievement of the right academic material. To assess school administration for quality assurance, an amount of subsisting factors are involved which include the degree of school administrators’ compliance in maintaining good School - Community relations, structure, good human relations, quality decision making, adequate financing, curriculum planning and development, government policies and time management as examined on this paper