ENHANCING SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSESSMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE IN ENUGU URBAN USING DIGITAL ASSESSMENT

Kunuba, Agatha Chukwufumnanya (2025) ENHANCING SECONDARY EDUCATION ASSESSMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE IN ENUGU URBAN USING DIGITAL ASSESSMENT. NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND EVALUATION, 24. pp. 336-344. ISSN 0795-3607

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Abstract

In the context of secondary education in Enugu Urban, the integration of digital assessment methods holds significant promise for enhancing both assessment policy and practices. The purpose of the study was to find out how secondary education assessment policy and practice can be enhanced in Enugu Urban using digital assessment.The research utilized a non experimentaldesign of descriptive research type. The population for the study consisted of 1,797 teachers of 31 secondary schools in Enugu Urban. Eleven schools were randomly drawn from 31 secondary schools using simple random sampling. Taro Yamene‘s formula was used to determine the sample size of 327 teachers. From these drawn schools, the sample of the 327 teachers was drawn usingstratifiedrandom sampling. Three research questions aligned with the study‘s objectives, guiding the investigation.Instrument for data collection was a well structured questionnaire.Two specialists in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation validated the structured questionnaire.The questionnaire was also tested for reliability using Cronbach Alpha and the reliability coefficient was 0.83. The data collected were analyzed using arithmetic mean. The findings from the study indicated that digital assessment enhances secondary education assessment policy and practice in Enugu Urban. It was recommended that the study findings be made available to the Enugu State Ministry of Education. It was also recommended among others that digital assessment should be introduced in secondary schools in Enugu Urban and teachers be trained on how to integrate digital assessment into assessment processes.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2025 09:44
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2025 09:44
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5111

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