SOME INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AS PREDICTORS OF UNDERGRADUATES’ ATTITUDE TO CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: Implications for policy, qualitative education and counselling

Abstract

Periodic assessment is an integral part of education process. It provides opportunity for teachers andlearners to assess learning outcomes with a view to adjusting methods and improving academicachievement. It also provides the required basis for admission, placement, promotion, demotion orrepetition and at the end certification of learners. If there is no form of assessment in education, theprocess would be marred by obscurity and it would be very difficult to classify the products of thesystem (Omoifo, 1998). Periodic assessment makes it possible to know the direction of students’performance and to determine the direction of change of students’ attitude (Alutu & Alutu, 2007).