Teachers Perceptions on the Use of Summative Assessment at Secondary Level

Abstract

The thesis entitled “Teachers Perceptions on the use of summative assessment at secondary level” is an attempted to find out Teachers Perceptions on the use of summative assessment ELT Classrooms. I collected the data by administrating the questionnaire to 30 Teachers of different secondary school of Kathmandu district.Two types of Questionnaire (Closed-Ended, Open-Ended) were employed to elicit data. The sample of the study was selected through purposive non-random sampling procedure. The data where analyzed and interpreted in order to find out their perceptions of using summative assessment in ELT classroom, I conduct survey research to achieve the objective of the study. The major findings of the study show that summative assessment were used for teaching for providing the feedback to the students, to improve the teaching learning process. Most of the teachers used the summative assessment in the form of terminal examinations and final examinations project work in classroom at secondary level. Moreover, it was perceived that use of summative assessment beneficial to the students as well as teachers at secondary level in ELT classrooms may hinder learning of the students .it is recommended that regarding appropriate judicious use of summative assessment in classrooms This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction which consists of background of the study, research questions, significant of the study,delimitations of the study and operations definitions of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related literature and conceptual framework that consists of review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with methods and procedure of the study which covers design and methods of the study,populations, sample and sampling strategies, research tools and techniques , sources of data, data collections procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. Likewise, the fourth chapters includes the analysis and interpretations of the data. Furthermore, fifth chapter includes finding, conclusion and recommendation. Finally, the references and the appendices, which are necessary for the validation of the research, have also been presented