Attitude of primary school teachers towards assessment of pupils in the Cape Coast Metropolis

The purpose of the study was to determine the attitude of primary school teachers in the Cape Coast Metropolis towards assessment of their pupils. The stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 227 primary school teachers from 36 out of 65 schools in the metropolis for the study. The subjects responded to a questionnaire from which the data were collected. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and the independent t-test. The resultsshowed that the teachers generally have positive altitude towards assessment of their pupils and that there is no significant difference between the attitudes of male and female teachers towards assessment. However, there arc some aspects of thecomponents of assessment that the teachers were not well disposed to or comfortable with. In view of this it was recommended that the Metropolitan Education Directorate, in collaboration with the University of Cape Coast should conduct inservice training on assessment for re-orientation of the primary school teachers.