Abstract

This study investigated effect of continuous assessment on chemistry students’ performance in senior secondary schools in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. The descriptive research design was adopted in the study. The population of the study covered 495 Senior Secondary School (SSS) Two students (SSS2) students offering Chemistry and their Chemistry teachers in the seventeen (17) senior secondary schools in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. The total of 240 Senior Secondary School two (SSS 2) and all the Chemistry teachers in eight selected senior secondary schools in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State was drawn for the study. The research instrument that was be used for the collection of data was a questionnaire titled: “Teachers’ Continuous Assessment Practice Questionnaire (TCAPQ)”. The content validity of the instrument was carried in the study. The test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) was used to test hypotheses 1, 2 and 3. The entire hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there was significant relationship between dissemination of pre-evaluation information by teachers, teachers’ assessment feedback, teachers’ use of data gathering instrument and students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Esan South East local government area of Edo State (p