STAKEHOLDERS’PERCEPTION OF THE BENEFITS, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES OF IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

Abstract

This paper determine stakeholders perception of the benefits, challenges and strategies of implementing continuous assessment  in business education programmes in selected Colleges of Education in North Central Nigeria. The objective of the paper was to examining benefits, challenges and strategies of implementing continuous assessment in business education programmes in Colleges of Education .Related literatures to the study were structured and reviewed in line with the purposes. A descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 414(101 lecturers and 313 final year students) of business education from colleges of education in North Central Geographical Zone f Nigeria. Purposive sampling was adopted. The instrument for the collection of data was questionnaire while frequency count and percentage was used to analyze the demographic data of the respondents, mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the data collected to answer the research questions, One-way ANOVA was used for the research hypotheses in order to investigate the occurrence of variations and different levels of measurable effect that exist among the variables, validity of the instrument was done to express the degree to which a test measure what it supports to measure and reliability of the instrument was determine by the statistical analysis of the data collected from the pilot study. Results show that perception of respondents on the benefits of implementing continuous assessment in business education programmes in Colleges of Education agree that lecturers attitudes towards continuous assessment are more of an overload than a natural part of their practice with a mean score of 2.81 and a standard deviation f 0.748,. Recommendations, Government should organize, seminars, conferences and workshop for lecturers on correct implementations of continuous assessment in schools, Maintain ongoing communication with stakeholders to address their concerns and provide updates on the progress and outcomes of the implementation, conducting pilot tests to gather feedback from stakeholders and identify any potential challenges or areas for improvement, Encourage collaboration and engagement among stakeholders, including educators, students, parents, and administrators and Establish mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the implementation process and outcomes regularly.

Keywords: Stakeholders, Perception, Benefit, Challenges, Strategies, Continuous Assessment, Business Education.