Effects of Test Feedback on Junior Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Social Studies in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State

Hilary Ejim Egan; Dauda Adeyemo Ariya Ph.D; Prof. Gladys O. Oti; Ruth James Umaru Ph.D

doi:10.56201/ijee.v10.no3.2024.pg62.69

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Effects of Test Feedback on Junior Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Social Studies in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State

Hilary Ejim Egan, Dauda Adeyemo Ariya Ph.D, Prof. Gladys O. Oti, Ruth James Umaru Ph.D

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The study investigated the effects of test feedback on junior secondary school students’ achievement in Social Studies in Bekwarra, Cross River State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses and employed the quasi- experimental research design. Specifically, the non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design, since intact classes was employed as experimental and control groups without randomization. The population consists of is 2,215 JS II students from 7 public secondary schools and two intact classes were purposively sampled. The experimental group had 94 students and the control group with 92 students. Social Studies Achievement Test was used for data collection and the result revealed that there was a significant effect of test feedback on students achievement in Social Studies and that male students performed slightly better than their female counterparts in Social Studies when exposed to test feedback. The study concluded that test feedback is an effective instructional in tool in fostering significant improvement on the achievement of students in Social Studies.

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AchievementBekwarraTest Feedbackand Social Studies

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Effects of Test Feedback on Junior Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Social Studies in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State

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