Evaluation of Accounting Education Programme in Colleges of Education in South East Nigeria

Abstract

The study looked at the extent of the objective of the accounting education programme, entry requirement into accounting education programme in south east Nigeria and accreditation process followed in setting up the accounting education programme. Three research questions were posed for the study. Evaluation design drives the objective of the study. Mean and standard deviation served as statistical test tool to answer the research question. The population of the study consists of academic staff in the school of business education in colleges of education in south east while simple random technique was used to compose the participant in the study. A total of 372 participated in the study. The instrument for data collection is questionnaire tagged evaluation of accounting education programme (QEVAEP). The instrument was faced validated by two experts in the field of measurement and evaluation in university of Nigeria Nsukka and teacher and vocational education and trial testing was carried out using twenty five heads of departments and dean in school of education in colleges of education in south south Nigeria. A reliability index of 0.82 was obtained. The instrument was administered to the respondent directly by the researcher and the result of the study indicates that colleges of education in south east Nigeria comply to entry requirement in admitting student in the department to a high extent, the accreditation process is to a low extent followed in setting up accounting education programme while the objective of the program are achieved to a low extent. Keywords: Evaluation, Accounting, Education, Programme, Colleges, Nigeria, south east DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-8-05 Publication date:March 31^st 2020