Practical skill assessment practices among radio television and Electronic work teachers in Technical Colleges in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Nassarawa State

Abstract

The study sought to investigate Practical skill assessment practices among radio television and electronic work teachers in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Nassarawa State. Four research questions guided this study and four hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A survey research design was adopted for the study, The instrument for data collection was a 83 items Practical skill assessment practices among radio television and electronic work teachers Questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated by three experts. The population for the study was 31respondents. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was obtained using Cronbach Alpha formula and yielded an overall reliability of 0.86. Data collected for this study were analyzed using Mean and t-test statistics. Mean was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings for research question one revealed that, 12 out of 25 items were the practical skills test development practices among teachers in RTVEW. Findings for research question two revealed that 13 out of 25 items are the practical skills test administration practices among teachers in RTVEW. Findings for research question three revealed that 16 out of 25 items are the practical skills test scoring practices among teachers in RTVEW. Findings for research question four revealed that all the 8 items are the presents techniques for improving practical skills assessment in RTVEW. Findings for hypotheses one, two, three and four revealed that, there was no significant difference between the mean responses of teachers with high experience and those with low experience as regards each research question. It was therefore concluded that the assessment practices employed by RTVEW Teachers in practical test development, administration and scoring does not provide adequate assessment procedures that can truly appraise the extent of what the students have actually learnt. Therefore, teachers should employ assessment techniques that will give the students more opportunity to perform practical and be assessed on a given task individual using practical assessment tool such as the checklist so as build students confidence even at their final examination.