COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GRADUATES ADMITTED THROUGH UTME ONLY AND THOSE ADMITTED THROUGH UTME/POST-UTME
Keywords:
Academic Performance, Assessment, Comparative Assessment, Education FCGPA, Gender, Post-UTME, UTME.Abstract
Periodic assessment is key to any educational programmes to ensure that the long term goals that necessitated its introduction are actually met. UTME and Post UTME modes of entry and admission into Nigerian universities is no exception. In the quest to ascertain the entry mode that has yielded better academic performance of graduates, a study on comparative assessment of academic performance of graduates admitted through UTME only and those admitted through UTME/Post UTME in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka became imminent. The study were guided by three research questions and three null hypotheses. It was a descriptive research design of ex-post facto type. The study covered eight academic sessions, four years before the introduction of Post-UTME from 2001 – 2005 and four years after the introduction of Post-UTME from 2005–2009. The population of this research study was 35,308. The sample was 3,741 drawn from the departments following the admission and registration lists of those who were admitted through UTME only and those admitted UTME/Post-UTME respectively. Two instruments were used for data collection, which included: Admission list and student’s academic records. Mean statistics was used to analyze the research question and while the null hypothesis was tested using z-test at 0.05 level of significance. The finding revealed that the academic performance of graduates admitted through UTME/Post-UTME from 2005 and 2009 was higher than graduates admitted through UTME only from 2001 and 2005. Based on the finding, the authors recommended, among others, that Federal Government of Nigeria in alliance with the NUC should endeavour to mandate every University in Nigeria to conduct Post-UTME screening exercises for its obvious reason of producing graduates with better academic performance.
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