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  title info:
    title: Factors influencing assessment practices among academic staff in universities in Uganda
  name:
    name part: Musa, Matovu
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Institute of Education
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Institute of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2013
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xvi, 243 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: This research analysed the factors influencing assessment practices among academic staff in Ugandan universities. An Assessment Practices Inventory Modified (APIM) scale was distributed to a sample of 350 academic staff selected from both private and public universities in Uganda. A purely quantitative approach with a stratified random sampling technique to select the participants was adopted for this study. The objectives of this study were; to test the psychometric properties of the APIM scale, to find out the differences in assessment practices of academic staff in Ugandan universities, to find out the significant predictors of assessment practices among academic staff in Ugandan universities and also, to find out whether the extended hypothesised model explains the assessment practices among academic staff in universities in Uganda. The collected data for this research was analysed using Rasch measurement analysis, three-way MANOVA, multiple regression analysis, and structural equation modelling in respect to the research questions. The results of the psychometric properties revealed that the APIM scale is an adequate instrument in measuring assessment practices among university academic staff. The hypothesised model was found to be adequate in explaining assessment practices among academic staff in universities; χ² = 902.619, χ²/df = 1.842, df = 490, p = .000, CFI = .906, RMSEA = .052, and SRMR = .050. Also, differences were revealed in academic staff's assessment practices according to their academic levels and specialisations, and not in the type of university. Differences in academic levels cut across all the assessment practices sub-scales (design, administration, interpretation, and application) while in specialisations differences were only in assessment interpretation. Additionally, this study has found out that academic levels and assessment courses are the only significant predictors of the academic staff's assessment practices among the many hypothesi…
  note: by Matovu Musa
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2013.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-236).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  classification: LB2331.65.U33
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/3858
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 131022
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng