DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ECONOMICS ACHIEVEMENT TEST FOR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

📄 Project Abstract

This research work was intended to develop and validate an Economics Achievement Test. Related literature to this study showed that Economics in the Senior Secondary Schools is aimed at bringing about desirable behavioural changes which may be overt or covert. Such behavioural changes which are the products of the objectives of the teaching/learning situations need to be quantified and qualified. This cannot be attained without proper evaluation. The study area was Enugu Education Zone of Enugu State from where Six Secondary Schools offering Economics were randomly selected from twenty-six secondary schools in Enugu Education Zone. One thousand and twenty five SS II students were sampled from the selected schools. The researcher postulated four research questions and two hypotheses to guide the study. Based on the research questions and hypotheses, the design and methodology, a table of specification was constructed and used. And a 50-items test was developed based on the level of cogn...