ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING AT SECONDARY LEVEL- SOME ISSUES

Being an important constituent of general education, Science adds capability to the learners to understand and transform nature, to produce goods and services for the community. Assessment is an essential element of teaching learning process which guides teachers to reform and reconstruct their teaching strategies. Assessment Practice meant a set of activities undertaken by the teacher and student about student learning. Present paper reveals a research study with mixed-method approach to identify the problems of assessment practices in Science teaching and learning in 15 Secondary schools of Nawada district in Bihar.