THE LINK BETWEEN EVALUATIONS, REMEDIAL AND EXTENSION WORK: A CASE OF ZOU PGDE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT TEACHERS IN HARARE

THE LINK BETWEEN EVALUATIONS, REMEDIAL AND EXTENSION WORK: A CASE OF ZOU PGDE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT TEACHERS IN HARARE

THOMAS MUSANKULENI KAPUTA

TAZIVEI DONDOFEMA

This qualitative study considers the importance of evaluation to teaching and learning specifically its link to remedial and extension work. It focused specifically on student teachers on the Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). This study focused on determining the link that existed between evaluations of schemes of work, lesson plans and continuous assessment versus remedial and extension work in the curriculum subjects taught in secondary schools from Form 1 to Form 4. The study was carried out in High Glen and Glenview-Mufakose education districts of Harare Province. The population consisted of members of 11 Government secondary schools, one private secondary school and one community school in Glenview/Mufakose Districts of the Harare Metropolitan Province to the northwest of the capital city of Harare. The sample consisted of one, Heads of Secondary Schools, Heads of Departments and 50 student teachers doing PGDE) with the university and a district schools inspector. Document analysis focused on purposively selected students’ remedial and extension work exercise books providing the researchers with evaluative data during. Open-ended questionnaires were used to collect primary data on how remedial and extension work in secondary schools was being managed. The major finding shows that teachers used lesson plan evaluations and test records to superficially link to remedial and extension work. The study recommended that the university develop a students’ guide on teaching practice specifically on evaluation showing how student teachers should link it to remedial and extension work to enable the effective evaluation and implementation of remedial and extension work in the classroom.

Zimbabwe Open University Journal of Applied Social Sciences

2026