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    Continuous Assessment: Its Validity, Reliability and Feasibility
    (Addis Ababa University, 1994-01) Tesseha, Bogale; Leta, Dejene (PhD)
    In this stud y an attempt was made to find out wh e ther or n o t continuous asses.me nt in the t eac hing of En g li sh is more pf f "" ti ve than the non-continuous traditi ona l assessment p ra c ti se d in ollr hi jrh sc hoo ls . To te st this. a n experi ment was co ndu c ted for t en weeks in which a samp le population of 1 38 Grade Ele ve n Students in two groups (74 con tro l and 64 ex perimental) t ook part . A teaching mat eria l was prepared along the principles of th e 'Communicative Approach ' and g iven to both groups. Th e statistical test made o n the pre-test scores of the study a nd contro l g r o ups sh owed n o significant difference . Neve rth e less , in th e post-test scores ob tained , the s tudy ~ r o up pe rf o rm ed better than the control group at a .ijrnificance l eve l of O.OS. The study bein g esse ntially a testin g approach was interested in invpqig a ting th e va l iditv . reliabili ty and fp'lsi hi lity of conti nu ous a.sessment . The b e tter sco res of the s tlld y grou p on the pos t- te st r eveal the ef f ec ti ve ness of the n e~ met h od tried. Moreove r . t h e r espo nses from the studpnt qu es tionnaire v alidate this v i ew . The aggregate sco res obtained fr o m the co ntinuous assessment and from the post-test were corre lated to test re li a bilit y . Th e r es ult shows a v e r y strong positive co rr e lation. The f e asibility o f co ntinu ous asse ss me nt in the present c ircumstances i s rather stro ngly doub t ed. The low morale of