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Assessing Laboratory Skills Performance in Undergraduate Biology Students

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  • Getachew Fetahi Gobaw
  • Harrison Ifeanyichukwu Atagana

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the laboratory skills performance of undergraduate biology students in Ethiopian universities based on skill performance rubric. Individual laboratory practical skill performance test was implemented with 55 randomly selected third year biology students from three universities in a laboratory setting under supervision of the raters. Five level scale questionnaires were administered to 208 third year biology students, 26 biology instructors and 2 laboratory assistants. The results showed that the laboratory skill performance test score was below the midpoint with significantly different between the old and the middle as well as the new university. Correlation and multiple regression analyses showed that teachers’ experience had significant positive regression weight. From the results of the analysis, it is recommended that in biology laboratory, performance-based assessment needs to be undertaken in placement to written exam and instructors need much more assistance and professional development of biology laboratory performance skills as well as pedagogies of how to assess the laboratory performance skills of their students.

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  • Getachew Fetahi Gobaw & Harrison Ifeanyichukwu Atagana, 2016. "Assessing Laboratory Skills Performance in Undergraduate Biology Students," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 5, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjz:ajisjr:1522
    DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n3p113
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