INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
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Continuous assessment had always been one means of measuring students’ progress during a course of study and as well serve as modalities for effective teaching and learning, it focuses on all instructional objectives of learning outcome. It sometimes does not provide a holistic description of the students’ performance. This paper examines the influence of continuous assessment (CA) on students’ academic performance. In order to do this, various educational publications were consulted and cited in the work. A little digression was also made in attempting to examine the importance and problems of continuous assessments. Relevance of continuous assessment to students’ academic performance were also discussed and recommendations were made.
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