Role of Assessment in Curriculum Practice and Enhancement of Students' Learning at Secondary Level: Gender and School Location

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to investigate the “Role of Assessment in Curriculum Practice and Enhancement of Students' Learning at Secondary Level.” This study was to analyze the importance of role of assessment in curriculum practice and enhancement of students learning at secondary level and to find out the relationship between of these variables. The quantitative research study was used a Correlational survey design. Simple stratified sampling was used for the collection of data. All the public and private secondary schools of Multan were selected as a population of study. Data was collected from 711 male and female as well as rural and urban school students from district Multan all four tehsils. Researcher was adopted the questionnaire. The validation and amendment of questionnaire was based on expert opinion. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed through Cronbach’s alpha. There was one questionnaire selected for research for the students. Research questionnaire was contained the two sections like first section described the demographic information of participant and the second section  contained the questions to analysis of students’ perception about role of assessment in curriculum practice and enhancement of students learning at secondary level. The data was analyzed by SPSS. The descriptive analysis (mean as well as percentage) and inferential statistics (independent t-test and one way ANOVA) were used to analyze and interpretation of data. This study was also measure the relationship between variables, by using Pearson’ correlation method was used.