Bøger af Milcah Nyaga

The purpose of this book is to equip learners with knowledge and skills of assessment and evaluation. The book explores the importance and use of evaluation to all education stakeholders. Most importantly, evaluation helps to determine to what extent the broad objectives of a programme have been achieved. In addition, the book focuses on the scales of measurement, various ways a teacher can use to estimate reliability of measurement instrument using test-retest, measure of equivalence and measure of internal consistency. Guidelines of test construction are also discussed which include test blue print construction. Further, the book highlights the statistical ways of analyzing learners test results such as measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. Finally, this book provides a discussion of statistical item evaluation such as item difficulty level and the discrimination index.

Middle-life is that period of life from approximately thirty-five years to approximately age sixty-five years. The teacher may experience challenges in menopause, climacteric, external and internal aging, health problems and marriage conflicts due to impotence, which affect the work performance. These problems have attributed to misunderstanding between the teacher and the school administration. This book determines factors which attribute to mid-life challenges and also gives recommendation on how to prevent, control and cope with these challenges in order to increase work performance.