Impact of continuous assessment on students’ academic performance in selected public Secondary Schools In Mbale Municipality
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2017-06
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Kampala International University, School of Education, Open and Distance and E-learning
Abstract
This study was about establishing the impact of continuous assessment on students’
academic performance in UCE in Mbale municipality. The study objectives included;
establishing the effect of homework on students’ academic performance in UCE,
examining the effect of monthly tests on students’ academic performance in UCE and
establishing the effect of class exercise on students’ academic performance in UCE. The
study sampled 1 80 respondents out of a study population of 123 respondents according to Morgan
(1970) formula of determining the sample size of the respondents. The study respondents
included; school administrators, teachers students and parents The study discovered that
homework affects students’ academic performance in the following ways; home work
helps students to identi~’ their weaknesses and strength, helps in monitoring students
learning and progress, home work helps teachers to gauge student’s mastery of the
required knowledge, helps teachers to determine whether students are prepared for tests
and examinations and motivating and shaping learning and instructions. As regards the
effect of monthly tests on students’ academic performance in UCE, it was found out that
monthly tests enables complete understanding of concepts, determines the memory and
reasoning capacity of students, helps teachers to determine the gaps in students
understanding of concepts, encourages students to attend classes and students retain the
materials for a long period of time or make them ready for exams. It was found out that
class exercise affects students academic performance in the following ways; encourage
student to work hard and prepare for examination, class room exercises encourage
students to research, class room exercises encourage students to independently, critically
and creatively think about what they have studied, minimizes failure amongst students
during examinations, and encourages students to form discussion groups for easy
understanding of concept. The recommendations teachers in schools need to ensure close
monitoring of students performance by ensuring continuous assessment of students
through monthly and weekly tests.
There is need to encourage students to make use of discussion groups and intensive
consultations of teachers in areas they fill there are not well versed with. This can help to
improve on their performance in their examination.
Guidance and Counseling is of paramount importance in the area of academic
performance of students, therefore teachers need to take a step to guide students to
intensive read their books to improve their performance.
Description
A Research Report Submitted to the College of Education,
Open, Distance And E-Learning in Partial Fulfilment of the
requirement of the Award of a Bachelor’s Degree
in Computer Science with Education
Of Kampala International
Keywords
students’ academic performance, Mbale Municipality, continuous assessment on students’ academic performance