The effect of continuous assessment on students achievement in physical education subject abbichu secondary school: mendida town oromia regional state

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of continuous assessment on student’s achievement in physical education subject in Abbichu secondary school: Mendida Town Oromia Regional State. The study design was experimental research method. Simple random sampling technique was used to select subjects. The data were analyzed 33 male and 27 female total of 60 sample students were taken from 748 of students. The selected subjects were divided into 2 equal groups (n=30) CG and (n=30) EG were selected from grade ten of eight section two section by using random sampling. These students were studying physical education as a compulsory subject. Method of data analysis was included frequency, mean and standard deviation. The effect of continuous assessment on student’s achievement variables would determined by Wilcoxon signed Rank test. The main instrument of data collection was pre and post-test for both group and assessment (individual and group assignment, home work, class work, group work, test, mid, and final exam) during twelve weeks for experimental group. The result indicated the experimental group trained continuous assessment like individual and group assignment, home work, class work, group work, test, mid and final exam was develops the performance, skill and knowledge of the participants. So the assessment used for experimental group during continuous assessment training was developed the effect of continuous assessment on student’s achievement in physical education subject. There was significant difference between the experimental and control groups at alpha level of 0.05for a two tailed t-test, degree of freedom=58 in their students’ achievement. Based on the findings of this study the researcher recommends that: It is good if schools plan and use continuous assessment on students’ achievement. To make the learning of student’s physical education meaningful, teachers might use continuous assessments for effective achievement of students. Although Continuous assessments helps teacher to know strengths and weaknesses of the students, plan redesign the teaching in accordance with the needs of the students.