THE USE OF ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM MODELS TO ASSIGN TEACHERS TO CLASSES: A CASE STUDY OF ADO BOBI PRIMARY SCHOOL, MARIGA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

One of the most powerful and special tool of operations research that has the capacity to help head teacher, principal, head of department or course coordinator to determine the optimal assignment that will maximize teacher’s or lecturer’s effectiveness and minimize class preparation time is the assignment model. Assignment problem is used, for instance, in education, medicine, rail transport, production planning, and telecommunication. In this research, assignment problem model is used to find how the school administrators should assign her teachers (i.e Hauwa Hussaini, Raliya Mohammed, Muhammad Ibrahim, Serah Zakariya, Ibrahim Salisu and Jamilu Abbas) to the classes in school (Primary 1 to 6). The Hungarian method of assignment problem was used by a statistical package (Excel QM). In order to minimize number of failure, the result shows that; Jamilu Abbas should be assign to Primary 1 with the least number of failure 17; Primary 2 with only 21 failure to be assigned to Hauwa Hussaini; While, Ibrahim Salisu should
handle Primary 3 with 38 failure; Raliya Muhammad assigned to Primary 4 which has failure of 33; Primary 5 with 27 fails assigned to Serah Zakariya and Muhammad Ibrahim for Primary 6 with record of 26 failure. These assignment will give a minimum of 161 failed pupils in the school with 2,662 pupils.