Our Archives

Call 09159097300, or 09067754232 for any enquiries.

Project Topic:

AN EVALUATION OF TEACHERS ATTITUDE AND COMPETENCY IN IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

Project Information:

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 56 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis ::   1,301 people found this useful

Project Body:

ABSTRACT

This study is predicated on selected secondary schools in Ethiope Local Government Area of Delta state with a view to evaluating teachers’ attitude and competence in implementing continuous assessment. In carrying out the survey, the researcher tried to study the problems and found out the factors affecting the effective implementation of continuous assessment in some selected secondary schools in Delta state. Whether the school teachers are adequately equipped to participate actively in the implementation of continuous assessment programme of the state government. If the appropriate facilities have been put in place by the Ministry of Education to facilitate the work of teachers in the implementation of continuous assessment programme. The problems associated with the continuous assessment in schools. If teachers know the difference between continuous assessment and the traditional system of testing the students items while testing the students, hence poor performance in examination. Based on the findings, the researcher made some useful recommendations. It is my ardent hope that these recommendations should be implemented by the relevant authorities.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

          The history of evaluation in the Nigeria education system is not easy to trace perhaps its first mention was expressed in the form of ordinance that put in place in 1882, among the provisions of these ordinance were that of the following criteria been set for grants for teachers’ salaries. First, grant for organization and discipline with special grants to schools, which obtain the area of percentage of passes and reached high standard of academic excellence. Secondly, a captivation passes grant for each subject.

          In 1889, another ordinance was enacted and it started in part that on grant would be made in aid of any school except that the school in public examination shall have attained prerequisite percentage of efficiency. This explains the place of evaluation and testing students in the school curriculum, evaluation was relatively simple because it comes at the end of the year’s programme. In the secondary schools, there was a highly selective system of evaluation practice. Passport into secondary school was an organized written examination followed by an oral interview. There were term and final examination which most schools depend on for the purpose of promotion.

          One of the most important hallmarks of the National Policy on Education (1981) is the provision of the continuous assessment as an effective tool for wholly a partly assessment and evaluating the student’s learning outcomes in the various level of our educational system. This continuous assessment is presently been run in secondary schools as it was introduced. In 1982, the National Policy on Education (1981) provides a six year primary education, three years Junior secondary education, three years secondary education. Tertiary education and four years University, each of which level would be allowed to implement the continuous assessment as laid down by the federal ministry of education. it is marked by intention to make students specialized early enough in the future careers. Most importantly, it has provisions for making drop outs employee.  This new system of education will replace the formal one final examination system, which has outlined its usefulness. The formal examination system has been criticized for its short comings. It is a common knowledge that very many students roam about the street during most of the school year, only to the classroom a week or two before the promotion examination to do any serious work. They are not serious for any academic work because they have not prepared themselves for such tasks.

          This underscores the point why eminent scholars have argued that examination is not a true test of ones’ ability. There has been an occasion when some students commit suicide because of failing examination. It should be revealed that examination on high predicated on the cognitive aspect of the student’s learning and tended to ignore affective and psychomotor aspects. It consequently creates our students and examination consciousness and an appetite for memorization and regurgitation of fact which in turn tend to stifle their inflection thinking. These among other reasons encourage examination malpractice among students.

          Therefore, it is hoped that the introduction of continuous assessment will check the short comings of the examination system. There are various tools which may be used to find out the outcomes of learning activities. These include test, assignment, project, observation, interview, and questionnaires. The data obtained on the students will then be used to aid his further use and the purpose of providing information to the parent, guardian, and others who can use this for the benefit of the students. Such an assessment involves the use of great varieties of mode of evaluation for the purpose of guiding and improving the learning and performance of the students.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

          This research work is designed to investigate the attitude and competence of teachers to conduct continuous assessment in selected secondary schools in Delta state.

          The problem of the implementation of the continuous assessment encountered by teachers in our secondary school be useful suggestions from the university teachers and educational administrator on ways of making continuous assessment successful would be considered. Among other thins the questions below would have been answered at the end of the work.

I)                  The factors affecting the effective implementation of continuous assessment in selected schools in Delta state.

II)               Whether the school teachers are adequately equipped to participate actively in the implementation of continuous assessment programme of the state government.

III)            If the appropriate facilities have been put in place by the state ministry of education to facilitate the work of teachers in the implementation of continuous assessment programme.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

          Educational development sustains the growth of the nation. As a result and in order to, with this ever expanding industry, we need adequate assessment method that would show exactly what one wishes to know about the individuals. This explains why teachers’ attitude and competence in implementing continuous assessment is very important because they are agents of change in the society. Continuous assessment is necessity for al teachers in the new educational system in Nigeria. This work will equip the classroom teachers to implement the continuous assessment in their various schools. It will direct and inform teachers on areas of the behaviour of the children to be assessed and the procedure to adopt in achieving this purpose.

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

          The following hypothesis formulated to guide the researcher in this study namely:

I)                  Firstly, School teachers do not use adequate test items in assessing students, hence poor performance in examination.

II)There is no significant relationship between the system of evaluation in schools and students’ performance in examination.

III)There is no significant relationship between traditional method of testing and continuous assessment technique of grading students.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

          This work is predicated on selected secondary schools in Ethiope Local Government Area of Delta state with the view to evaluating teachers attitude and competence in implementing continuous assessment in secondary schools in the 6-3-3-4 educational system.

LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

          One of the financial constraints and time on the part of the researcher, it was not possible to use a large sample which would cover very many schools in the Local Government Area.

          This work is by no means an answer to all the logistic problems facing the teachers in the implementation of the continuous assessment in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta state ratio; it is an attempt to find solutions to some of them and after useful suggestions to educators, school administrators and government who are concerned with the recruitment of teachers and progress of students within the school system.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

          The following terms are defined as used in the report, in order to avoid misinterpretation by different individuals.

Continuous assessment: this is a method of ascertaining what a pupil gains from school in terms of knowledge, industry and character development, taking into account his/her performance in test, assignment, project and other educational activities during a given period of an education to be determined.

Evaluation: Evaluation is to determine whether certain changes are taking place in the learning as well as to determine the amount or degree of changes in individual student.

Implementation: The act or process of putting into effect some operation, plans, policies or ideas.

Cognitive domain: A behavioural objective of remembering or reproduction of something which has been learned.

Psychomotor domain: This deals with manipulative skills and body movement.

Affective domain: This has to do with values, belief, attitude, appreciation, interest, social relation, emotional adjustment and life style.

6-3-3-4: The new system of education in Nigeria as spelt out by the 1981 National Policy on Education broken down thus:

First: 6-years-Primary Education

Next: 3-years-Junior Secondary School Education

Next: 3-years-Senior Secondary School Education

Next: 4-years-Tertiary or Post Secondary Education

Attitude: It is the learned disposition in the technique of assessing the total learning experience of the students in academic, manipulative and emotional task organized within the school curriculum studies and supervised by the teachers.

Competence: This has to do with efficiency, the ability to be skillful, knowledgeable and to be effective in performing a given task. It implies that possession of specialized skills, which would go a long way to result effective performance in specialized areas like the teaching field.



Get The Complete Project »

Project Department:

MORE EDUCATION FREE UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

Instantly Share this Project On Social Media:

CLOSELY RELATED EDUCATION FREE UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

THE IMPACT OF CLASSROOM PRACTICES ON SECODARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OYO STATE

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 65 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis, abstract  ::   12568 engagements

ABSTRACT This study investigated the classroom climate practices in public and private secondary schools in Ibadan West Local Government Area of Oyo State. There are 17 public secondary secondary ...Continue reading »

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN FOOD AND NUTRITION IN WAEC & NECO EXAMINATIONS FROM 2006-2011

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 68 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis, abstract  ::   9274 engagements

ABSTRACT This paper compares and examines the performance of secondary school students who were candidates in food and nutrition examinations of both the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and Na...Continue reading »

AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON THE ATTITUDE OF SCHOOL ADOLESCENT STUDENTS TOWARDS GENITAL MUTILATION (A CASE STUDY OF EKET LGA AKW IBOM STATE)

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 65 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis, Abstract  ::   8091 engagements

ABSTRACT The main focus of this study was to find out the attitude of in-school adolescents in Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria towards female genital mutilation. In order to achi...Continue reading »

A CRITICAL ANAYSIS OF THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF MASS FAILURE IN MATHEMATICS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS (A CASE STUDY OF UYO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 70 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis, Abstract  ::   10417 engagements

1.0 INTRODUCTION In recent years, student academic achievement in senior secondary school certificate examination mathematics. The word “Mathematics” is a Greek word, meaning things that ...Continue reading »

THE IMPACT OF LEGISLATION AND IMPLEMETATION OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES ON TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS ( A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE)

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 65 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis, Abstract  ::   7589 engagements

ABSTRACT The study examined legislation and implementation of educational policies in Lagos State tertiary institutions. Descriptive research design was used. A questionnaire titled ‘Legislatio...Continue reading »

THE IMPACT OF E- LEARNING ON THE ACADEMIC PERFROMANCE OF UNDERGRADUATES (A CASE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF JOS)

 Format: MS WORD ::   Chapters: 1-5 ::   Pages: 70 ::   Attributes: Questionnaire, Data Analysis  ::   10694 engagements

ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine the impact of e-learning on academic performance In University of Jos. To seek their opinion on the students’ perception of e-learning and academic p...Continue reading »

What are you looking for today?

TESTIMONIALS:

  • 1. Jayone from FPA said " I had a wonderful experience using UniProjectMaterials,though they did not deliver the material on time, but the content had good quality. I recommend UniProjectMaterials for any project research work.".
    Rating: Very Good
  • 2. Mugisha R from B.U, UGANDA said "Wow, this is great, your materials has helped me alot. Many blessings. I will inform my friends. Thanks. ".
    Rating: Very Good
  • 3. Nwachukwu Ruth Chinyerr from Michael okpara university of Agriculture,umudike said "I really appreciate this. Materials like this are good guides to writing a researchable project.".
    Rating: Good
  • 4. Ibrahim Salama from Kaduna said "Thanks You So Much Sir We Appreciate ".
    Rating: Excellent
  • 5. Ibrahim Salama from Kaduna said "Thanks You So Much Sir We Appreciate ".
    Rating: Excellent
  • 6. Mohammed A.B from Veterinary Laboratory, Zanzibar ,Tanzania said "You are doing good job to assists in research. God bless you.".
    Rating: Very Good

Paper Information

Format:ms word
Chapter:1-5
Pages:56
Attribute:Questionnaire, Data Analysis
Price:₦3,000
Get The Complete Project »

Best Selling Projects

Our Archives