Impact Assessment of The Bachelor and Master of Education in Educational Management Programmes at the Zimbabwe open University

Tichaona Mapolisa and Barnabas Muyengwa

International Journal of Asian Social Science, 2012, vol. 2, issue 12, 2162-2174

Abstract: The study investigated the nature of Impact Assessment of the Bachelor and Master of Education in Educational Management Programmes at the Zimbabwe Open University. Initially, it targeted 300 former students who graduated in the two programmes and are working elsewhere. It purposively sampled 230 graduates. The study found out that respondents were aware of the two programmes’ learning outcomes, benefits, challenges, processes and possible means of training learners in the two programmes through ODL. The study concluded that respondents are conscious of the likely challenges to the offering of the Bachelor and Master of Education in Educational Management Programmes at the ZOU. It also concluded that ZOU has played a big part in the development of the human capital in Zimbabwe, Southern African Development Community (SADC) and beyond. Above all, it also concluded that the teaching of the two programmes under study is not an event, but a process. The study recommended that ZOU ought to continue to quality assure all processes of the two programmes such that they remain enviable in a competitive university environment. It also recommended that the ZOU’s Department of Educational Studies should introduce an integral practical component of the two programmes which involves following graduates to their stations in order to find out how well they are faring in the management of educational institutions.

Keywords: Impact assessment; Bachelor of education in educational administration; Planning and policy studies; Bachelor of education in educational management programme; Master of education in educational administration; Planning and policy studies; Master of education in educational management programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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