THE FACTORS AFFECTING ASSESSMENT OF WRITING WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TEACHERS’ FEEDBACK AT SSS II LEVEL

ABSTRACT
This study sought to assess the factors affecting the assessment of writing with particular reference to teachers’ feedback at SSS II Level. Seven research questions were formulated to guide the study. Relevant literatures were also cited. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the population for this study comprised English teachers in selected schools in Yaba Local Government Area and Somolu /Bariga Local Government Area of Lagos state. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 12 senior secondary schools and 10 students from each school, 4 teachers each were selected from 10 schools and 5 teachers each were selected from two schools. This brings the number of teachers to be 50 and the students to be 120. The instrument used to gather information was questionnaire and the data were analysed using percentage. Some of the findings of the study are: There are factors that direct effective assessment of writing, both teachers and students prefer analytic scoring, teachers’ educational qualification has a significant effect on the assessment score, teachers’ years of experience affect the assessment of writing, teachers’ marking strategies affect the assessment of writing. Based on this, the study recommended among others, that government should embark on accelerated construction of classrooms to decongest crowded classes.