KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT AMONG TEACHERS' IN BASIC SCHOOLS OF NURSING IN SOUTHEAST ZONE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Academic assessment is vital in teaching and learning process and it provides the necessary feedback required in order to evaluate effectively the outcome of educational efforts and objectives. The assessment of learning outcomes provides objective evidences necessary in the decision-making process in education. As correctly pointed out in Bassavanthappa (2009), good measurement resulting in accurate data is the foundation of sound decision making. There is little doubt among educational practitioners about the special value of educational assessment as a basic condition for effective learning and decision making. In the classroom, assessment aims at determining the extent of students' mastery or competence over a body of knowledge and skills in a subject (Airasian, 2006). Assessment can be defined as the process of gathering data and fashioning them into interpretable form for decision - making. It involves collecting data with a view to making value judgement about the quality of ...