Practice and challenges of continuous assessment in teaching physical education in gurage zone selected secondary schools

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate practice and challenges of continuous assessment in teaching physical education in Gurage Zone selected secondary schools. The study was employ cross sectional research design and four basic questions were raised to achieve the objectives of the study. To answer these basic research questions,descriptive survey research method was employed. The researcher was conduct on two wereda selected secondary schools purposely select for the setting of this study. The total number of students in the schools approximately 1330, the sample size for the study was 65 (52.0%) male and 60(37.5%) females generally 125 students were randomly selected from grade 10th, six(6) Administrations, eight (8) physical education teachers 5(62.5%) male and 3(48.0%) females availably include as the sample. The needed data were obtained by means of questionnaires distributed to 8 physical education teachers and 125 sample students, interview which was designed for Administrations and physical education teachers finally observational check list was used. For this study both qualitative and quantitative research approach was employed. percentage was used as a main technique of analysis for quantitative data and qualitative data were analyzed quantitatively (in words). The data were analyzed using SPSS for windows version 24.0 statistical tests were performed at the level of significance of 0.05. Accordingly the research revealed the following results, mostly the schools indicate the following problems; most physical education teachers did not include a variety of continuous assessment tools/ techniques in their plan, they did not use in the class activities. As a result the status of continuous assessment implementation was far from the standard and they concentrated on few tools and large class size, shortage of time, lack of teaching aids lack of availability of a few or no instructional media, lack of awareness about continuous assessment, teacher’s class load, and the student’s negative attitude towards the subject matter. As a result, it is difficult to practice continuous assessment in teaching physical education. Therefore, physical education teachers were not carrying their responsibilities such as awareness creation, using Varity methods of teaching, facilitating to full fill materials and generally they did not show their commitment.