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Instruments for Monitoring and Evaluating National INSET

Post-INSET Evaluation Questionnaire
NB: the instrument applies to all subject departments (Mathematics, Science and Technology, Biology and Home Economics).

School: Sex:

The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the SMASSE Biology trainees’ opinion on their roles during normal
school teaching sessions in their respective schools/districts.
Please consider each of the following statements and indicate the response that reflects your opinion about your situation
by checking (✔) in the appropriate column on a separate mark sheet using a pen or pencil. the stem to items under
category A also applies to all other categories in this instrument.
Key: 0- Strongly Disagree; 1- Disagree; 2- Not Sure; 3- Agree; 4- Strongly Agree

Category A
Item
No.
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
1 How to encourage students to think logically during teaching/learning sessions
The importance of helping students to understand procedures in biology
2
experiments/practical work
3 How to encourage biology students to think creatively during teaching/learning sessions
How to assist students to view the relevance of biology learned in class in relation to what
4
they come across in real-life situations
How to encourage students to design investigations aimed at solving problems on biology
5
issues
6 How to view biology as a primarily practical and concrete subject
How to make students voluntarily opt to do biology work above and beyond the minimal
7
expectations
The importance of teaching biology to enable students master the subject content and not
8
necessarily to excel in the final examinations

Category B
Item
No.
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
How to help biology students to make precise/and accurate observations during the
9
practical sessions
10 How to encourage class discussions during biology teaching/learning sessions
The importance of encouraging biology students to write reports on experiments/practical
11
work they do in class
The importance of encouraging students to make their own predictions/hypotheses during
12
biology experiments/practical work sessions
The importance of encouraging biology students to verify their predictions or hypothesis
13
through evidence/facts in science text books/journals in class
The importance of encouraging students to verify their predictions or hypotheses by doing
14
experiments that are based on scientific ideas
15 The importance of students taking notes as biology lessons progress
16 How to pay individual attention to students in biology class
17 The importance of encouraging group work during biology teaching sessions
18 How biology teachers can guide students with poor study habits
19 The importance of not teaching biology as sets of rules and experiments
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Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
How to give biology students with difficulties more exercises and practice on
20
observations/practical work
How biology teachers can use appropriate question/answer techniques with reinforcement
21
of students’ responses accordingly
How biology teachers can provide their students with comprehensive instructions that
22
include what to do, how to do it and when and why to do it
How biology teachers may promote retention of content taught by giving out review
23
activities and opportunities for students to practice what they have learnt

Category C
Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
How school duties, other than teaching, may not hinder effective teaching/learning sessions
24
in biology
How high student/teacher ratio in school may not hinder effective teaching during biology
25
sessions
How biology teachers can incorporate students’ practical experiments (or ideas) when
26
planning for teaching/learning sessions
The importance of biology teachers planning for their students to do other meaning ful
27
learning activities where class experiment sessions are not possible
The importance of biology teachers trying out experiments ore any other practical work and
28
obtaining sample results going to call to teach
The importance of biology teachers preparing worked-out examples related to subject
29
content they are going to teach
How biology teachers can prepare teacher-friendly but student-centred work-plans for their
30
daily lessons
31 The importance of biology lessons being based on aims and objectives of learning the topic
How biology lessons can be designed such that the sequence of ides of events makes sense
32
and the relationships among them are clear to the student

Category D
Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
How biology teachers can conduct teacher demonstration sessions where facilities in school
33
are limited
How biology teachers can conduct class experiment sessions with the facilities available in
34
school
How biology teachers can conduct teaching sessions even where there in shortage of
35
conventional teaching media and aids in school
36 How biology sessions may not be hindered by low morale among fellow teachers in school
How biology teachers can deal with students with different socio-economic backgrounds in
37
class
38 How low morale among students may not hinder teaching of biology in school
39 How team teaching enhances teaching/learning of biology
How teachers can practice improvisation to supplement shortage of equipment and
40
materials
41 How teachers can practice improvisation to raise the interest and curiosity of the student
Category E
Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
The importance of making biology students perform experiments to aid learning of
42
scientific concepts
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Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
The importance of making biology students perform experiments not necessarily to
43
understand the science involved
The importance of making biology students perform experiments so that they develop
44
various scientific skills
How biology teachers can conduct practical sessions that require elaborates safety
45
precautions
46 How biology teachers can simplify or modify experiments, where necessary
47 How biology teachers can conduct small-scale experiments
48 How biology teachers can guide their students on project work

Category F
Item
The INSET Workshops have prepared and made me aware of: 0 1 2 3 4
No.
The importance of biology teachers planning for assessment as a basic part of the
49
teaching/learning process
The importance of continuously monitoring biology students’ achievement during the
50
teaching/learning process by a series of tests and quizzes
The shortcomings of using continuous assessment to prepare biology students for national
51
examinations
52 How continuous assessment can promote mastery of biology content
How continuous assessment contributes more to effective teaching/learning of biology than
53
just covering the whole syllabus in time
The importance of biology teachers using results of classroom assessment to gauge their
54
own effectiveness in teaching the subject
The importance of considering the learner’s mental state of readiness when designing
55
biology assessment
The importance of making provision for learners to experience moments of success when
56
designing biology assessment
57 How to use suitable assessment procedures to determine the level of readiness of the learner
The importance of making effort, through suitable assessment procedures, to identify the
58
root cause of students’ persistent learning difficulties in biology
The importance of assessing students’ level of achievement in practical work in biology
59
through the performance of the actual tasks
The importance of making an effort to check textbook questions for their suitability before
60
through the performance of the actual tasks
The importance of giving students a variety of questions that promote their interest and
61
understanding
The importance of biology teachers setting positive and realistic goals for their classes and
62
for individual students when assessing
The importance of using the question-answer technique in teaching/learning of biology as
63
an important assessment tool
How results of biology classroom assessment can be used to improve on the process of
64
teaching/learning the subject
The importance of giving students and opportunity to provide the teacher with feedback on
65
the lesson presentation
The importance of asking fellow teachers, from time to time, to sit through a biology lesson
66
presentation, evaluate it and give feedback
The importance of using assessment results to guide students in career choice or areas for
67
further studies