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. The annual conference of ASSEREN had by 2015
convened seventeen times. From that forum 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. In pursuance
of the goal of ASSEREN to continue to improve the quality and value of education
and related programmes in Nigeria and the world at large, the Editorial Board hereby
commend this maiden issue of the Journal of Evaluation to researchers and
educationists