ROLES OF CONTINUOUS ASSESSEMENT PATICIPATION IN STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFOMANCE
Keywords:
Continuous Assessment, Participation, Assessment, Students Academic PerformanceAbstract
This paper examines the Roles of Continuous Assessment Participation in Students’ Academic Performance. Over the years, continuous assessment has been the pre-evaluation process of students academic success before the final examination period, in this 21st century, however, it appears that lecturers are not using continuous assessment to prepare students ahead of examination because some of them don’t mark their test script and return the script back to students to see their performance before the final examination.. This paper concludes that continuous assessment helps students to remember what has been learnt, to concentrate effort on difficult areas of the subject and helps identify their areas of strengths and weaknesses. It was suggested amongst others that lecturers should critically examine students performance in continuous assessment so as to understand their area of weaknesses and help them on it by equipping students’ with effective study habits and social skills that can contribute to their level of subject mastery.
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