Practices of continuous assessment system at basic level

Abstract

The present study entitled ''Practices of continuous assessment system at basic level " was aimed to find out the practices of CAS at basic level education and identify teacher perceptions on CAS anditsrole in students learning achievement. Survey research design was used. This study was carried out by using both sources of dataprimary andsecondary. Teachers were selected by using purposive random sampling procedure from different community schoolsof district. Bothclosed ended and open-ended questionnaire were used as the tool for data elicitation about practices of continuous assessment system at basic level. The major findings of this study were that, teachers werepracticing Continuous Assessment System by using different tools such as attendance, class test, homework, project works, change behavior and classroom discussion, they were positive towards implementation of CAS if there was enoughand propermonitoring and supervision from concern authorities and it had positive impact on the student’s learning achievement. Thisstudyincludesfive chapters. Thefirst chapter consists of backgroundunder this different sub topics such as statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study,and delimitationsof the study andoperational definitions of the key terms.Similarly, the second chapter includes theoretical and empirical review of the related literature, implication ofthe study of the literature review and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology applied in the study, the sources of data, sample population, sampling procedures,and researchtools, procedures of data collection, analysis procedure and ethical consideration. In the same way, the fourth chapter includes results and discussion of the study more specifically the analysis and interpretation of the data. The fifth chapter presentsthe finding, conclusions and recommendations.Italsoconsistssomerecommendations related tothepolicy, practice and further research are presented. References and appendices are attached at the end.