Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to make a survey on the current status of continuous assessment in
physical education class in Jimma Zone some selected wreda high schools. Five basic questions
were raised to achieve the objectives of the study. To answer these basic research questions,
descriptive survey research method was employed. For the study three wereda high schools were
purposely selected for the setting of this study. From the total students of the schools
approximately 2500, the sample size 107 male and 78 female generally 185 students were
randomly selected from grade 9 and grade 10, nine (9) physical education teachers purposely
selected as the sample. The needed data were obtained by means of questionnaires distributed to
9 physical education teachers and to 185 students, interview which was designed for physical
education teachers and finally observational check list was used and percentage was used as a
main technique of analysis for quantitative data and qualitative data were analyzed
quantitatively (in words). The data were analyzed using SPSS for windows version 16.0
statistical tests were performed at the level of significance of 0.05. Accordingly the research
revealed the following results, mostly the schools indicate the following problems; most physical
education teachers did not include a variety of continuous assessment tools/ techniques in their
plan, they did not use in the class activities. As a result the status of continuous assessment
implementation was far from the standard and they concentrated on few tools and large class
size, shortage of time, lack of teaching aids lack of availability of a few or no instructional
media, lack of awareness about continuous assessment, teacher’s class load, and the student’s
negative attitude towards the subject matter. As a result, it is difficult to practice continuous
assessment in physical education class. Therefore, physical education teachers were not
carrying their responsibilities such as awareness creation, using Varity methods of teaching,
facilitating to full fill materials and generally they did not show their commitment
