OVERVIEW OF ATTITUDE OF ADULT LEARNERS TOWARDS EXAMINATION IN MASS LITERACY PRORAMMES IN BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
1Abubakar Abba Aji And 2Mariam M.A Zakari
1Department of Continuing Education and Extension Services, Faculty of Education, University of Maiduguri
2Department of Primary Education Studies (PES), Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri.
E-mail: abbaganabenisheikhali@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Attitude is a general term which refers to one’s feelings, thought and predisposition to behave in a particular manners towards some aspects Mukherjee (2008) in this case attitude can be defined as the way of thinking, feeling, interest and behaviour of adult learners towards examination. Examination in the other hand is administered to adult learners enrolled in basic literacy programme at the end of their course duration aimed at certifying them. Examination is a yardstick by which learners learning abilities and potentials are identified, help learners to discover how much they know and areas to improve upon, provide feedback to the teacher as to how much impact he is making on his learners (Oni, 1994). Therefore, seeing the importance of examination to students and adult literacy programmes, this paper attempted to give an overview of the attitude of adult learners towards examination, with close look at attitude, examination, proper teaching and learning situation, classroom communication and their implications in literacy programmes in Borno State. The paper concludes by making some suggestions to address negative attitudes of adult learners toward examination.