Assessments and Academic Achievement: A Critical Analysis

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Critical analysis...............................................................................................................................2
Synthesis of research findings.........................................................................................................4
Development of research questions.................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 2
Introduction
Student’s academic achievement is achieved through various activities and task which are
provided by the teachers to the student (Abudllah & Ahmed, 2019). The estimation describes that
assessments is one of the major activity which helps in raising the academic achievement by
student. Therefore, academic achievement is the extent to which a student attained their short and
long term educational goals and objectives that is completing the education benchmark which
includes bachelor’s degrees etc. The present discussion is made on the research question “Do
assessments increase a student’s academic achievement”.
This research question is selected because much of the studies are conducted to
understand the assessment task provided to the student. However, not much of the study is
performed to investigate the relationship between assessment and students academic
achievement. The estimation describes that majority of the students increase their performance
and achieve their personal goals because of indulging in various assessment activities (Aidoo,
Boateng, Kissi, & Ofori, 2016). It is because of the reason that this increases the learning and
knowledge of the students as well as through that student will undergo from several types of
challenging which increase the intellectual skills of the students.
Assessment leads in support the students to make use and involve empirical data on the
learning of the students it is because this refines the new programs and strategies for enhancing
the knowledge and learning of the students (Aidoo, Boateng, Kissi, & Ofori, 2016). The research
question focuses on understanding the association it with the student academic achievement it is
due to the reason because this helps the student to develop by including in the procedure of
gathering, collecting and make discussion about the information through different sources so that
teachers can support the student to enhance subsequent learning in the particular field. Further, in
this report, a critical analysis of the literature is done and findings will be discussed through
which research question is refined.