NEW TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION

OMACHI, DANIEL (2021) NEW TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION. Angusco Nigeria Enterprise, No. 37 Edinburgh Road, Ogui New Layout, Enugu State Nigeria.

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Assessment refers to the wide varieties of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition or educational needs of the students. In other words, educational assessment is seen as a systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skills, attitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve students learning. Assessment stands at the heart of effective school system. Without adequate system of assessment, selection will be difficult to legitimize, certification will carry a wide range of meanings, monitoring of the school performance will be difficult and diagnostic and remediation of learning problems will be haphazard. Gray (1984) in Aku (2018) defines assessment as an attempt to measure some particular ability, knowledge, skills or attribute of a pupil. Approaches to assessment vary because the range of options in choosing models of assessment is very wide. They include individual and group testing; written, oral and practical task; open and closed book conditions, self, school-based or external assessment, continuous / formative and summative assessment. Assessment is more than measurement as it deals with qualitative data like evaluation. It is however limited in scope compared to evaluation for whilst evaluation concerns the teacher/tester, the learner/testee and the programme as a whole, assessment deals only with the learner or the testee.

Item Type: Book
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: 24 Aug 2025 09:34
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2025 09:34
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5212

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