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Effect of Diagnostic Assessment with Remediation on Secondary School Student’s attitude in Jos North Local Government Area, Plateau State, Nigeria

Comfort Jerry Gushop, Prof. Georgina C. Imo, Prof. Saurayi Isa Dadughun

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of diagnostic assessment with remediation on secondary school students ’attitude in Economics in Jos North local government area, Plateau State, Nigeria. To achieve this, three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design, specifically the pre-test and post-test non-equivalent control group research design. The population of the study was made up of 1,626 SS II students from 22 secondary schools in Jos North LGA. Simple random sampling was used to select two Schools within the school population after which the two SSII intact classes from the two public secondary schools were used for the study. School A was used as the experimental group, having 25 students, while school B was used as the control group, having 22 students. A questionnaire items was used for data collection. The reliability coefficients of the instruments was determined using Cronbach’s Alpha method. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer research questions 1 and 3, while research question 2 was answered using graphs. The hypotheses were tested using ANCOVA, at 0.5 level of significance. The findings revealed that students assessed in the experimental group achieved significantly higher than the control group after treatment. The study showed that male students had higher attitudes direction than females in the experimental group, there was no statistically significant difference in the attitudes between male and female students. There was no interaction effects of treatment and gender on attitudes of students in Economics. It was recommended that the State Ministry of Education should organize training workshops and seminars for secondary school teachers to enhance their understanding of how to use and apply diagnostic assessment for an improved attitude of Economics students.

Keywords

Diagnostics AssessmentRemediationAchievementAttitude IJEE IJEE www.ijee.io

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