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Assessing Educational Standards and Psychometric Properties of the Certification Test for Primary School Teachers and its Implications for Teacher Performance. The case of Shashemenne City Administration, Ethiopia
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Kite Badasa Churuke
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Key words: educational standards, alignment, licensure test for teachers and educational implication.
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Abstract The main purpose of this study was to assess educational standards, alignments and educational implications of certification test for primary school teachers in Oromia regional state. A mixed research design was employed, and data were collected from primary school teachers, education office experts and the subject teachers from college of teachers’ education in the 2024 academic year. The participants were selected using multistage sampling techniques. The research was carried out based on analysis of primary data obtained from examination (N=25) and interview guide and secondary data obtained from reviewing documents (N= 5). There is a moderate inter-rater reliability for academic content standards (K= .5985) and fair agreement between the raters for the alignment of subject objectives and exam items (k = .219) and items importance evaluation (k= .2482). Thus, in all alignment evaluations, there are supportive values of agreement obtained between the raters that indicate the evidence for the content validity of the certification exam. It also indicated, there are significant value of internal consistence of each domain and entire items of the exam, alpha = .808 for content, .813 for pedagogy and .876 for total exam respectively. However, there is insignificant and low association between test core and teaching performance. As the results from the interview panel, the implementation of licensing system for the in-service teachers is not effective. Therefore, it is important to internalize its goals within teachers, building positive perception on teachers, and to incorporate all elements of education system and all subjects of the level in the studies.
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Kite Badasa Churuke (July-2024). Assessing Educational Standards and Psychometric Properties of the Certification Test for Primary School Teachers and its Implications for Teacher Performance. The case of Shashemenne City Administration, Ethiopia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(7), b551-b572. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2407156.pdf
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Volume 9 Issue 7, July-2024
Pages : b551-b572
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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_224846
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2407156
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Research Area: Social Science and HumanitiesÂ
Country: Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia
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