NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ COMPLIANCE TO THE NIGERIA NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION

The importance of evaluating learning outcomes, using wide variety of instruments and containing data from a wide variety of sources, rather than the use of one-shot and one-type examinations, have long been recognized worldwide, hence the Federal Government of Nigeria, mandated in 1982 the use of evaluations of this nature, known as continuous assessment, in Nigeria schools, Several problems, confronted it’s planning and implementation. The authors of this study went out in the field to evaluate the nature and scope

of this activities and problems that have to do with implementing continuous assessment in Nigerian primary schools. The findings of this study suggest that, by and large the continuous assessment procedure is accepted in preference to the previous narrower scope of one-shot evaluation, but many problems continues to threaten the benefits derivable from using this method to evaluate primary school pupils.

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