December 2014 Vol. 2 No.12

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Original Research Article

The impact of capacity building training to biology teachers’ competence in assessment: the impact of monitoring trainees

Peragia F. Bikongoro and Saukwaeli E. Swai*

The National Examinations Council of Tanzania

*Corresponding Author’s E-mail: saukwaelieliakimu@yahoo.com

Accepted December 17, 2014

Abstract

This paper explores the impact of capacity building training to Biology teachers’ competence in setting test items after introducing a competence based curriculum. It also examines the impact of monitoring trainees’ involvement in capacity building between the years 2005-2013. A survey study was carried out to obtain data from 219 respondents. The study established that only (149) 68% of the sampled Biology teachers in studied schools had received capacity building. Also it was found that, monitoring of teachers who underwent capacity building was poorly done. Furthermore, the findings revealed that on average 68.46% of teachers who received capacity building were able to construct items at higher levels of cognitive objectives. The paper concludes that, lack of monitoring of teachers involved in capacity building has led to the failure of capacity building delivery system to accommodate all Biology teachers in capacity building and consequently affected their assessment competencies negatively. The authors recommend that, keeping records could make enhance monitoring the teachers involved in capacity building and make the intention of improving teachers’ assessment competencies realistic.

Keywords: Bloom‘s Taxonomy, Capacity building, Competence based syllabus, Monitoring trainees, Teachers’ assessment competences.