EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN VISUAL ARTS IN SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ILORIN METROPOLIS
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2017
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Centre for Entrepreneurship, Kwara State University Malete
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This study investigated the Evaluation of Visual Intelligence and Academic performance of Selected Senior Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis. A Survey into some Senior Secondary Schools revealed that Visual Arts Teachers spend much time to teach Theory than practical’s. The Visual Arts Program is saddled with numerous problems such as unqualified teaching personnel, equipment's, materials and Subsidy. The objectives are to examine students performance in Senior Secondary schools Visual Arts examinations from 2011-2015 and to examine the types of assessment techniques used to measure students performance. The methodology was qualitative with survey research procedure. The population for the study constituted 346 teachers of 68 senior secondary schools out of which 22 public and private schools were sampled. Purposive sampling procedure with 5 point Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect data. The study used descriptive statistics of standard deviation, mean and simple percentages with an index score of 3.0 and above as the bench mark for agreed otherwise
disagreed. From the study, the following findings were advanced, performance of students from 2011 to 2015 were good except for 2013 that had poor performance in 2013, different evaluation techniques were used for assessment of visual arts performance by teachers with portfolio assessment being the major technique and small group discussion being the least of all the techniques used for assessment. The study recommends that there is a need for teachers to
develop audio-visual aids for teaching arts, in the era of information technology, the use of modern equipment like computers should be encouraged, as none of the schools visited has any serious link between their computer laboratories and the visual arts departments as well as the need to improve in the used of other forms of evaluation such as small group discussions, large group discussion as well as public display (critics).
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International Journal of Entrepreneurship Innovation & Management
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Prof. Binta Ajibola Sulyman