Recommendations

 Assessment

a)      Assessment is essential for improved teaching learning and needs to be integrated within systems of learning.

b)      Teachers need to develop their own module of assessment (formative) that includes higher order thinking tasks which are creative and challenging.

c)      Feedback and remedies are important components for intensive learning and formative assessment tasks and activities need to be formed to aid conceptual understanding.

d)      Assessment should focus on conceptual understanding in different contexts for application of knowledge.

e)      Descriptive feedback for performance of learners needs to be provided as a part of CCE.

f)      Assessment should be made not only within a school but also across schools and systems.

g)      There is a need to make provision for effective feedback to students.

h)      The active involvement of students in their own learning will help them learning to learn.

i)       Adjusting teaching to the results of assessment will further improve learning

j)       Recognition of the profound influence that the assessment has on the motivation and self-esteem of students.

k)      There is a need for students to be able to assess themselves and understand how to improve and the classroom to provide such opportunities.

l)      Reliability of assessment on creative teaching and credible evaluation.

m)    The correlation between performance in academic and non academic domains needs to be appreciated; and as an initial step measurement of non-academic domains needs to be encouraged.