By Odo Emmanuel Sunday
The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ practice of formative and summative assessment and feedback mechanism in teaching and learning. The study was guided by seven purposes, seven research questions and four null hypotheses. Chapter two was presented under conceptual framework, theoretical framework, review of related empirical studies and summary of literature review. Descriptive Survey design was adopted in this study. The study was carried out in Obollo-Afor Education Zone. The population of the study comprised 662 SS2 teachers in the 48 public secondary schools of the zone. The sample size for the study was 130 teachers. The instrument for data collection was a researcher-developed questionnaire titled Teachers Assessment Techniques and Feedback Mechanisms Questionnaire (TATFMQ). The questionnaire was structured on a 4-point rating scale of Strongly Agree (SA); Agree (A); Disagree (D); Strongly Disagree (SD) with numerical values of 4, 3, 2 and 1, respectively. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts in Measurement and Evaluation Unit in Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.