(1878) CORRELATION BETWEEN CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT AND EXAMINATION SCORES: A CASE FOR ENHANCING THE PREDICTORS OF STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION

摘要

This study was aimed at finding out the relationship between the continuous assessments (CA) andexamination scores of students in four courses taught in the Primary Education Studies (PES)department of the College of Education Agbor, Delta State of Nigeria. This further intended todetermine the effect of a strategy of continuous assessment which has been adopted for ten academicsessions (2003/2004-2012/2013) in order to improve observed flagging attendance to lectures andenhance student's active participations during lectures. The courses used in this study are the basicscience and technology components of the curriculum of PES in the minimum standards for Collegesof education in Nigeria. The courses are as follows;;PES 114 (for 100 level or year one students), 211,225 (for 200 level or year two students and 325 (for 300 level or year three students. All the studentswho were taught these courses listed above for the past three sessions (2010/2011, 2011/2012 and2012/2013) were used for this study. Their continuous assessment scores were correlated with theirexamination scores for each of the courses in each of the three academic sessions. The Pearsonproduct moment correlation coefficients were computed for each pair of scores for each course ineach academic session. The twelve coefficients computed are all positive and significant at 0.05 levelof significance. This indicates a positive and significant relationship between the continuousassessment scores and the examination scores. Those who have higher continuous assessmentsscores had higher scores in the examination irrespective of their year or level study. Discussions andrecommendations based on the results of this study are included to encourage the use of continuousassessment in more pragmatic ways to enhance student's attendance to lectures and other noncognitivecorrelates of their academic performance in all courses in colleges of Education.