Fairness in School Based Assessment

 

Fairness in School Based Assessment

        Recent trend across the globe is the concern on fairness in matters concerning the various issues in education. In some context, fairness and equity are used synonymously. Fairness or equal opportunity in assessment relates to two issues. Fairness in comparison, in essence, have the group being tested had the same opportunity to learn? (Uwakwe, 2005).

        Fairness however does not only relate to learning but has to do with the way and manner in which continuous assessment procedures are in the Nigerian classroom context, can we create an assessment system that is fair to all learner? It’s a categorical no but urges that we can however make it fairer.

        Meanwhile in the implementation of school based assessment, Njabilu (1999) cited in Njabilu et al (2005) identified some factors that may pose challenges to the authenticity and dependability of all continuous assessment marks. These are:

-      Number of continuous assessment test/assignment to be given per subject.

-      Absenteeism/late/non-submission of test assignments.

-      Make up tests/assignments

-      Plagiarism

-      Calculation of final continuous assessment marks for each subject
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