BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Continues assessment is a relatively innovation in the Wayne’s educational system. It refers to a system of assessment, which is carried out at pre-determined intervals for the purpose of monitoring and improving the overall performance of students and of the teaching – learning process (Okpala, Onocha and Oyediji 1993).
Examination is a formal written, oral or practical test especially at school or college to see how much learners know about a subject or what he/she can do that is (some one ability).
Education has to do with the transfer of knowledge from one generation to another. These are the philosophy behind the introduction of the variables contained in the title of the investigation.
Beaton et al (1996) opined that the rise of continuous assessment between countries used as measure of all the overall quality of education as a consequence, assessment has acquired an importance beyond merely providing some kinds of reliable and valid measure of Childs knowledge and understanding, the emphasis has shifted to it becoming a measure of the individual teachers capabilities than when sum across the country a measure of the effectiveness of the quality of the educational system as a whole (Falayajo 1979)
Hasting and Madaus (1981) defined continuous assessment as the use of systematic evaluation in the process of curriculum construction teaching and learning processes.
Continuous assessment is also explained as the systematic determination of the extent of students progress or lack of it in school subjects including attitude and values from the first day students steps into the school up to and including the last day in it (Ohumche 1998)
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