Evaluation of education of the Nigerian child: The way forward

Abstract

This paper is aimed at highlighting some of the challenges of effective evaluation, assessment and testing in the education of Nigerian  child for the attainment of sustainable development goals. It identified factors such as poor standard of living, indiscipline, poor quality  teaching/learning, poor funding, population explosion, assessment procedures, gender inequality, poor quality assessment instruments,  wrong use of test/examination results and politicization of education among others as factors responsible for these constraints. This  paper concluded with some suggestions which will go a long way in ameliorating the obstacles encountered in educational evaluation in  the management of innovative education for the attainment of sustainable development goals.