Teachers’ and Students’ Beliefs on Practices of Internal Assessment in Semester System: A Case of University Campus
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2016
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Faculty of Education Engish
Abstract
This research entitled Teachers’ and Students’ Beliefs on Practices of Internal
Assessment in Semester System: a Case of University Campus,
is an attempt to find out the teachers’ and students’ beliefs on practices of internal
assessment system in semester system of T.U., Kirtipur. I used survey research and
utilized a set of questionnaire consisting of 20 close and others open ended questions in
order to collect the required information. The sample of this study, 30 students of first
semester and third semesters Majoring English and 10 teachers from the Department of
English Education, University Campus, T.U., Kirtipur were selected by using purposive
non- random sampling procedure in order to fulfill the objectives. After analysis and
interpretation of the data it was found that most of the teachers and students have positive
beliefs on internal assessment system. The study also found that, still there are some lacks
in the well implementation of assessment system, such as, teacher’s hello effect, not
conducting the test timely and teachers reluctant. Similarly, major problems encountered
by the teachers while practicing internal assessment in semester system were lack of
operational calendar, reluctantness in providing teachers incentive; students may not take
internal assessment exam seriously like final exam, and low involvement of
administration.
The study contains altogether five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background
of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions,
significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key
terms. The second chapter consists of the review of related theoretical literature, review
of empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework. The third
chapter includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research
tools, source of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical
considerations. Similarly, chapter four is about analysis of data, interpretation of result,
the analysis of students’ and teachers’ responses presented in suitable form. The final
chapter presents findings, conclusion and recommendations, which are derived from
summing up of analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The reference and
appendices have been included in the last part of the thesis.
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Keywords
Internal assessment, semester system, teachers’ and students’ beliefs