Statistical Analysis of TTC Students’ performance in the examinations for the Award of a Primary Teacher Education Certificate

Abstract

This study aimed at analysing Teacher Training Colleges students' performance in final examinations for the Award of a Primary Teacher Education Certificate “A2”. Students' results from 2012 to 2015 inclusively were collected from the Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the University of Rwanda-College of Education. In addi-tion reports of academic monitoring and evaluation conducted in all TTCs during May-June 2015 were explored to identify the factors which may influence the observed difference in students' performance. Means, standard devia-tions and one-way analysis of variance were applied to explore the relationships in students' performance. The study indicated a good performance throughout these years. Even though the variation in students' results among the TTCs was not significant, the study revealed a constant highest performance at Save and a persisting lowest per-formance at Matimba. This apparent difference may result from different factors such as variation in availability of teaching-learning resources along with the management of students across the TTCs.

Keywords: TTC, student’s performance, one-way analysis of variance