CHAPTER ONE

1.0   INTRODUCTION

1.1   BACKGROUND OF STUDY

        In the past years, ability test were used in admitting students into secondary and technical schools. For instance, the common entrance examination and aptitude test which measures both aptitude, intelligence and achievement. The aptitude test measure accomplished skills and indelicate what a person can do at present.

        But the essential requirements for any test include reliability, validity and uniform testing procedure. The test which measure general intelligence ability are often called “INTELLIGENCE TEST”.

        Intelligence test are usually designed and implemented for a group of candidates to access the nature and course of metal development, intellectual associated with age, sex and facial membership, differences that might be attributed to hereditary or to environmental factors, differences among persons at different occupational level and among their children. Intellectual and other traits of a typical group such as the mentally gifted, the mentally retarded, the nautical an the psychotic.

1.2   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

        A close look at the operations of the Enugu state post primary education board (SPEB) and the Ministry of Education, the organizers of common Entrance Examination and First School Leaving Examination shows that a part of these examination comes as objective questions and the answer expected to be marked by  computers, while the theory section of the examination which of course carries the greater mark is marked by examiners leaving much to be desired especially in the Nigerian Context of it.

        More so, in admitting pupil’s into secondary school or technical schools, differences among parents at different occupational level and among their wards, residence of pupil’s or where their homes are located and facial or physical attributes may lead to bias. Instead of admitting only qualified students, non-qualified students may also be admitted.

        Again, the delay in the release of common Entrance Examination result and also the delay in admitting pupil’s causes anxiety on the pupil’s that participated in the examination the area of intelligence test, mental abilities and their measurements, computer Assisted learning (CAL), The nature of intelligence and scholastic Aptitude test (SAT).

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