Alternative Assessment and Women Education in Nigeria
Women in Nigerian society are in most cases not seen to have been well treated. This in most cases has been attributed to cultural factors which saw the place of…
33rd annual conference (2007)
Parental informal payments in school: monitoring study
Education represents an essential public good, particularly to developing economies. But persistent problems with transparency and accountability affect both the quality and equality of opportunities in education. For example, parents…
Use ict in test examinations’ preparation and conducting
The State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) was established with the purpose of organizing and conducting of the centralized test entrance examinations to higher and secondary specialized schools. Every year the…
CONDUCTING ORAL EXAMINATIONS OVER THE INTERNET
Oral examinations are usually conducted face-to-face between examiners and candidates. This works well for a small country like Singapore where almost all examiners and candidates do not have to travel…
Sensitivity to instruction: the missing ingredient in largescale assessment systems?
Educational policymakers all over the world rely on the results of large-scale accountability tests to inform policy. In doing so, they assume that the scores obtained by students indicate the…
GENDER ASPECTS OF THE RESULTS OF THE ADMISSION EXAMINATIONS
The presented material represents the common and different aspects in specialty preferences of male and female university applicants, the comparison of distribution histograms of their scores as well as their…
The methods in preparation of the new type of test questions In Chemistry and their grading ability
For 15 years,we have a new test system for admitting students to institutes of higher educationion and it has an important role in providing the objectivity.The new system includes chemistry…
AN ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIA’S GOALS ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION THE JOURNEY SO FAR AND THE WAY FORWARD
Nigeria is presently concerned with developing educational policies that will transform her status from a developing to a developed economy. The acquisition of technical education is possible from secondary to…
Preliminary Stages of a Validity Study of the Use of an Aptitude Test in University Entrance
This is a report on the first stages of a research study to examine the validity of an aptitude test in higher education admissions in England. It describes and explores…
Translating and Adapting a Test, yet another Source of Variance, the Standard Error of Translation
Test transadaptation (translation and adaptation) is the process whereby a test constructed in one language and culture is prepared for use in a second language and culture. Test transadaptation involves…