Mathematics Curriculum Content Assessment of Seldom Taught Concepts in Senior Secondary Schools in Port Harcourt Metropolis

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This study examined the assessment of seldom taught concepts in the Mathematics curriculum in senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt metropolis of Rivers State. The expost-facto design was adopted for the study. The study was guided by three research questions and the Mathematics content assessment instrument (M.C.A.I.) was used in the collection of the data and its reliability was analysed with the use of Kudar-Richardson 20 (KR-20) and Cronbach alpha. The answers to the research questions were analysed using means. The results from the analysis revealed that the extent of compliance in the recording of activities had a grand mean of 8.76, which is equivalent to a high extent of compliance with record-keeping templates. It was also observed that the extent of content implementation of the intended and the implemented for senior secondary one, two and three respectively. When compared among themselves, that SS1 to SS2, SS1 to SS3 and SS2 to SS3. It was observed that it had a high extent among SS1 and SS2, SS1 and SS3, but a low extent of implementation among SS2 and SS3. In line with the results, recommendations were made accordingly in line with the observed areas of low extent in content gap implementation.

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