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    INVESTIGATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ PHYSICS CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION AND PUPILS LEARNING PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL ZONE OF SIDAMA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA
    (HAWASSA UNIVERSITY, 2024-06) Daniel Solomon Boroda
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of continuous assessment in selected government secondary schools in central zone of sidama regional state. For this study, the researcher was employed concurrent triangulation mixed design, Simple random sampling, systematic sampling and purposive sampling techniques respectively. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. The study was also involved 5 secondary schools, 230 respondent students, 15 teachers, 5 principals, 5 vice-principals, 3 school supervisors and 6 education office officers. Data gathering instruments were questionnaire, interview, document analysis and observation. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics through applying SPSS soft ware version.26. The qualitative data were summarized by using narrative technique of analysis. The major findings show that: Teachers fail to discharge their professional responsibility to implement continuoues assessment strategies. There is no effective & objective orreinted follow up and support from school leaders. More over the major factors affecting the implementation of continuous assessment were: lack of understanding, lack of commitment, irregular students’ presence in class, lack of adequate curriculum materials, large class size, lack of providing laboratory practical activities, lack of in-service training, lack of integrated uniform guide lines for curriculum & continuoues assessment implementation. based on the major findings and conclusion drawn possible recommendations were made: pysics teachers should implement physics curriculum & continuoues assessment in detail & integrated way to improve studets learning performance, physics teachers should participate in school based continuous professional development program to improve their knowledge & skill of continuoues assessment, school leaders & education office should supply necessary materials & they should also conduct follow up regurarly, the regional education bureau should prepare and provide in-service training and continuoues assessment implementation guideline.