Evaluation of Learning Outcome at the Tertiary Education Level in Nigeria

Research Article

Chinelo Mercy Igwenagu

Corresponding Author : Chinelo Mercy Igwenagu,

Department of Industrial Mathematics/ Applied Statistics, Enugu state University of Science and Technology, Nigeria.

Email ID : chineloigwenagu@yahoo.com

Received : 2014-01-02 Accepted : 2014-01-10 Published : 2014-01-10

Abstract : Evaluation is a very important aspect in teaching and learning process, for it is the major tool which helps to assess the quality of teaching and learning respectively. Hence, this paper has looked at the evaluation process adopted by tertiary institutions in Nigeria, using scores of forty students in a statistics course from the department of Mathematics and Statistics of Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Analysis revealed studentsâ€™ poor performance with skewness value, ranging from -1.1 to -0.51. Further analysis revealed that the poor performance may not be blamed on the teacher rather on the students. However, effective evaluation could be achieved by employing the use of some fundamental statistical tools which shows some details concerning the shape and distribution of the result obtained in any examination. This in turn will help to improve teachers/students performances.

Keywords : Examination, Evaluation, Learning, Performance and Teaching

Citation : Chinelo Mercy Igwenagu (2014) Evaluation of Learning Outcome at the Tertiary Education Level in Nigeria. J. of Advancement in Engineering and Technology. V1I1.05 DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.998897

Copyright : © 2014 Chinelo Mercy Igwenagu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Journal of Advancement in Engineering and Technology

ISSN : 2348-2931

Volume 1 / Issue 1

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