JAMB: Board Upskills 180 Teachers, Lecturers On Assessment Competency

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has educated 180 teachers and lecturers on critical assessment competency. 

Dr Ariyo Akinyele, the Director Psychometrics, JAMB disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Dutse.

According to Akinleye, the training, conducted from August 1 to 5, in Dutse, Jigawa State, and included teachers from several secondary schools and tertiary institutions was organised to improve the student assessment capacity of the educators.

“This training is for non-education lecturers or teachers who find themselves teaching in tertiary institutions or secondary schools.

“We have to train them about assessment; we are looking at critical assessment competency because one should be competent in assessment.

“So they are trained to be good teachers and good assessors of our students,” he said.

Akinleye decried the state of the economy which has led some into seeking employment in secondary schools.

He maintained that this affects the image of the country negatively, hence the need for the training of the teachers by the Board.

“At the end of the exercise, the capacity of the participants will be built on good assessments.

“We can see that many of our students are failing examinations not because they are not intelligent, rather the assessors themselves have problems.

“So when they do the right thing, you find that there will be improvement and results of the students will be improved,” Akinyele said.