Comparative Analysis of Early Childhood Care Education Pre- Service Teachers Performance in Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Computer Based Test (CBT) Examination in Mathematical Creativity

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The study investigated Comparative Analysis of Early Childhood Care Education Pre-Service Teachers Performance in Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Computer Based Test (CBT) Examination in Mathematical creativity. Based on the purpose of the study two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. The population for the study comprises 172 pre-service teachers in the school of early childhood care education. A sample size of 104 participants was used for the study involving24 males and 28 females for PPT while 23 males and 29 females in CBT examination. The instrument used for data collection was a Mathematics Creativity Test (MCT).The reliability of the test was ascertained using the Kuder-Richardson Coefficient and found to be 0.82. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation for the research question while t-test was used test the hypotheses. Results showed that Early Childhood Care Education Pre-Service Teachers perform better in CBT than PPT Examination in Mathematics irrespective of gender. It was recommended that Government should provide an enabling environment for Computerized testing Nigeria in Tertiary institutions.

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