Impact of formative evaluation on psychological readiness and achievement in mathematics among adolescents in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State
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2021-06
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Akanni, O.O.
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International Journal of Studies in Education (IJOSE), Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Abstract
The study examined the impact of formative evaluation on the psychological readiness and students’ academic achievement of senior secondary school among adolescents in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study adopted quasi-experimental research design. The population for the study consists of all the 11,211 public senior secondary school class two (SSII) students in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos-state.. The stratified sampling technique was used to select 200 respondents (SS 2 students) consisting of 100 subjects for experimental group and 100 subjects for control group in the study. The instruments for data collection was structured questionnaire developed by the researcher titled: Psychological Readiness Questionnaire (PRQ), Mathematics Formative Evaluation Test (MFET) and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) .The instruments was faced validated by three expert from the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. The instrument have high stability co-efficient of 0.82, 0.75 and 0.79 when tested during the pilot study at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the study revealed that there is a significant influence of formative evaluation on students’ academic achievement in Mathematics, as well as the psychological readiness of the students, and there is a significant influence of formative evaluation on psychological readiness amongst secondary school students Based on the findings, it was recommended amongst others that the school administrators should emphasize to their teachers on regular basis that the teaching of Mathematic in secondary school should be carried out by using regular formative evaluation, adequate feedback and remediation for students to improve their academic achievement.
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Formative evaluation , Psychological readiness , Achievement in mathematics , Adolescents’ , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
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Akanni,O.O. (2021). Impact of formative evaluation on psychological readiness and achievement in mathematics among adolescents in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. International Journal of Studies in Education (IJOSE), Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 17(3), 278-291.