Assessment of Teachers’ Use of Test Blueprint for Enhancing Validity of Achievement Test in Economics in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers
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The study assessed teachers’ use of test blueprint for enhancing validity of achievement test in Economics in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The study adopted non-experimental design of survey research. The population of this study comprised 6,573 senior secondary school Economics teachers with sample size of 115 randomly selected from 6 selected Local Government Areas with 1 senior secondary schools each per Senatorial Districts of Rivers State. An instrument: Teachers’ Awareness and Use of Test Blueprint (TAUTB) (0.83) was used for data collection. The instruments were validated by experts in Measurement and Evaluation and Cronbach Alpha was used to establish a reliability coefficient. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Frequency and percentage were used to answer the research questions, while the null hypotheses were tested with Chi-Square at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there is a positive significant difference on the level of economics teachers’ awareness and utilisation about test blueprint for test construction in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State Rivers (East, West, and South-East) Districts. Based on the findings, it was recommended that school management should occasionally organise seminars and workshop for Economics teachers to enhance their awareness and utilization of the test blueprint as a procedure for test construction.
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