The Correlation between Continuous Assessment Scores and National form four Examination Results in Tanzania: A Case Study of Morogoro Municipality
Abstract
This research work aimed to find out whether there is correlation between continuous assessment (CA) scores and national form four final examination results in Tanzania 2021/2022 in Morogoro Municipality. The specific objectives were to assess the correlation between CA scores and form four final examination results basing in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and English Language. The study used Ex post facto research design because it groups the qualities that already exist and compared on some dependent variables. This study preferred this design because it has an ability to use the information that has been grouped based on a particular characteristics or trait. The study also used purposive sampling technique to select the two government secondary schools in Morogoro Municipality as well as five subjects which were taken as a sample these are Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English language following the low performance to most of the candidates to the mentioned subjects above. The data were collected by using documentary instrument where the head of schools had given the Mock results of 2021which were caped as CA documents due to the fact that mock is regarded as a reflection of the NECTA results since it is always done after undergoing several number of assessments to the candidates where mock becomes the almost last measure of the candidates to attempt the national form four examination and national form four results 2021/2022 were taken from the NECTA website. The data were analyzed using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient (r) and the null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings that from five subjects that is Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and English language. There were positive correlation between CA scores and NECTA results 2021/2022 because the significance level was .000 then in Biology (r) = .845, Physics r = .773, Chemistry r = .886, Mathematics r = .715 and English language r = .849 respectively. So they rejected null hypothesis and accept alternative hypothesis. This indicated that there was positive correlation between CA scores and national form four final examination results.
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