Basic school teachers’ assessment skills in Kwara central senatorial district
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2016-06
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College of Education, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Abstract
The study investigated the profile, competence and level of strengths and weaknesses of School- Based Assessment (SBA) skills of Basic school teachers in Kwara State. Also relationship between variables such as gender, age, teaching qualification, teaching experienced and SBA skills of basic school teachers were found out. Survey design was adopted for this study. The population of the study consists of all the basic school teachers in Kwara Central Senatorial District while the target population comprised all the Upper basic school teachers in Kwara Central Senatorial District. Three hundred and sixty-four teachers were randomly drawn from the total of 3,410 Upper basic teachers in Kwara Central Senatorial District. The teachers were drawn from 30 schools out of a total of 84 Upper Basic Schools in the district. A Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient of 0.65 was obtained. Analysis of data were carried out using mean, t-test and ANOVA statistics at 0.05 alpha level. The result revealed that the respondents have strength in are of test administration and feedback while they showed weaknesses in the areas of test interpretation, test construction, test scoring and remediation. In addition, significant difference exists in the SBA skills of the basic school teachers in Kwara State on the basis of gender, age, teaching qualification, teaching experience. Based on these findings it was recommended that basic shool teachers should pay particular attention to principles of test construction skill so as to broaden their assessment knowledge as this could give rise to quality and effective teaching.
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Assessment, Skills, Assessment Skills, Basic School Teachers
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Daramola, D. S., Olutola, A. T., & Owolabi, H. O. (2016). Basic school teachers’ assessment skills in Kwara central senatorial district. Al-Hikmah Journal of Education (AJE) 3, (1); 377-387. Published by College of Education, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria.