School Based Assessment

School Based Assessment

        Assessment and schooling go hand in hand. The assessment in learners’ and learning is a regular practice in education and are used to determine how far learners have learnt or mastered and educational task or knowledge or how well an educational process has addressed its set objectives. Anikweze (2005) precisely refers to assessment as the “process of investigating the status or standard of learners’ attainment, with reference to expected outcomes that must have been specified as objectives” when it concerns learnt output. The assessment of learners is often ongoing in many school set up. In fact, it is even undertaken as a basis for admitting students into the school. Assessment involves the practical assignment of numbers or figures to describe the quantity, quality or frequency of learning as the basis to interpret knowledge acquired.

Methods of Integrated Science Learning

Basically, there are two methods in learning of integrated science, these are: 

i. Expository Method: By expository is meant verbal explanation or discussion. This method is sometimes referred to as lecturing. It is the most frequently used in the teaching, and learning of integrated science. 

ii. Enquiry or discovery method: The enquiry or the discovery method deals with exposing students to actual learning materials in order to find our something about them. Through the enquiry approach, the students acquire basic scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes. 

Students Attitude towards the Learning of Integrated Science in Secondary School 2

1.8. Definition of Terms
There are some key terms used repeatedly in the study which needs to be defined. These are:
i. Attitude: Attitude is an expression of favours or disfavours towards a person, place, thing or event.
ii. Instructional Materials: These are materials used to help transfer information and skills to others. Examples of teaching aids are books, films, audio-visual materials etc.
iii. Factors: One that actively contribute to an accomplishment, result or process.
iv. Teacher Factor: These are teacher related factors that affects students interest in learning integrated science such as teachers methodologies  and teachers competence.
v. School Factors: These are school factors that have adverse effect on student’s interest in learning integrated science. Such as the concept and content of the subject.
vi. Student Factors: These are students related factors that negatively affect their interest and aspirations.

Students Attitude towards the Learning of Integrated Science in Secondary School

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the Study 

In recent studies, student’s interest in education have been measured by various scholars in terms of their attitude towards school subjects. A student who has negative attitude towards some subjects has

shown a signal of poor attitude and interest in education. Similarly, some researchers have linked poor academic achievements of students in recent times to the low level of interest they have on school subjects.

Analysing factors that contribute to student’s low level of interest towards school subjects.

Causes of Broken Homes

A broken home is a broken marriage. There is no place like home say the popular adage. There are many definitions of a home. The home may comprise of the father, mother, children, sometimes with any other member of the extended family. Then, if the home has the above definitions, what are the causes of broken homes.

Effects of Broken Homes on the Academic Performance of Students

The effect of broken homes on students depend on many factors, the most important of which are the causes of broken homes when it occurs, and it is either temporary or permanent. When there is a break in the home as a result of death and children realize that the parent will never return, they mourn the loss and transfer their affection to the parent available, hoping to regain the security they formally had. By so doing,

Factors promoting drug misuse among junior secondary school students

CHAPTER ONE

       INTRODUCTION

1.1     Background of the Study

Historically, drugs have been part of the daily life of human beings. From the primitive mixtures and concoctions, to the present day highly effective tablets, capsules, syrups, suspensions etc. Drugs have been vital to the survival and well being of humanity. According to Falawiyo (1988) cited by Oniyama and Ikekhua (2006),