ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ PERSONAL QUALITIES BY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN AWKA EDUCATION ZONE, ANAMBRA

The study was carried out to determine the assessment of students’ personal qualities by secondary school teachers in Awka Education zone, Anambra State. Seven research questions were formulated and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of 1544 secondary school teachers in Awka Education zone, Anambra State. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 279 secondary school teachers from the population. Fifty structured item question was developed by the researcher for the collection of data. Three experts from the field of measurement and evaluation validated the instrument. Internal consistency using Cronbach alpha method was used to obtain a reliability coefficient o .89. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. It was found that majority of teachers do not assess their students’ personal qualities but they accepted the techniques used in assessing students’ personal qualities. They also accepted the uses of assessment result. It is recommended that effort should be made by teachers to increase the assessment of students’ personal qualities. Teachers should be attending seminars, conferences, in-service training so as to be updated in the process of assessing students’ personal qualities. Salary increase is required to sustain teachers’ interest in teaching and assessing students’ personal qualities. The government should motivate their teachers by paying them regularly. More teachers should be employed so that they will not be engaged with too many responsibilities.