Abstract
Educational research and evaluation has taken root in Nigeria and the field is
growing along with its peers in the rest of the world. Its influence on the education
sector is also being felt and the Association of Educational Researchers and
Evaluators of Nigeria (ASSEREN) is a major organ responsible for this. The
Association comprises membership cutting across the academia, research and
assessment agencies in Nigeria and operates in collaboration with similar ones at the
regional and international levels. From annual conference of ASSEREN comes
evidence based studies on theories and practices that provide fertile and viable
decision options for the education sector in Nigeria. Articles, essentially empirical,
meeting acceptable quality standards are harvested from members and published in
the ASSEREN Journal of Evaluation and other scholarly journals of the Association