Administration of Education Test and Measurement as one of the Core Courses in Education Programmes in Nigerian Public Universities: Problems and way Forward

Abstract

Measurement and Evaluation (Test and Measurement) as used by some universities, is one of the core educational course offered in the Nigerian public universities. Education Test and Measurement is an education based course made to equip the educators with skills and ability to carry out assessment, prepare achievement test scores, and collect relevant data to make valid judgments and decisions on issues of education concern. It provides the medium to evaluate the progress in the achievement of educational programme. Test and Measurement like other courses offered in education among the Nigerian public universities is faced with many problems affecting the effective administration of the programme at the faculties and departments levels. This paper examined the problems facing the administration of Test and Measurement in the public universities in Nigeria. The paper concludes that inadequate funding, shortage of lecturers, inadequate instructional materials, inadequate infrastructural facilities, strike actions, poor research, poor capacity development and Brain-drain were the problems hindering effective administration of Test and Measurement in the Nigerian public Universities. The paper came up with the following recommendation; adequate funding, employment of more lecturers with specialization in Test and Measurement, provision of adequate instructional materials, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, implement unions agreements, provision of effective training programme for Test and Measurement lecturers and increase the salaries of lecturers in the Nigerian public universities among others as ways of improving the administration test and measurement among Nigeria public universities.