Supervision of Student-Teachers on Teaching Practice and Quality Education Delivery in Public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria

The study investigated supervision of student-teachers on teaching practice and quality education delivery in public universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Three research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlation design. The population was 3402 students from public universities in Rivers State. The sample size of 340 was drawn using simple random sampling technique. The instruments for data collection were titled: Supervision of Student-teachers on Teaching Practice Questionnire and Quality Education Delivery Questionnire. In all, the instruments have 50 items structured on a four –points modified Likert type rating scale. The reliability coefficients are: supervision of student-teachers on teaching practice was .83 and quality education delivery was .81 using Cronbach method. Simple regression was used to answer all the research questions while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study among others revealed that classroom management contributed to quality education delivery by 37.1% and hypothesis revealed that classroom management significantly contributed to quality education delivery in public universities in Rivers State. The study concluded that supervision of student-teachers on teaching practice contributes to quality education delivery in public universities in Rivers State.