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Zelda Elisifa Sam
The current study made analysis of scores by short term pre-session students at UDSM. The aim of the analysis was to make appraisal of effectiveness of course so as to empirically account for its worth and continuance. Two programmes were involved; a COET group that consisted of 19 Tanzanian students (8 females and 11 males) and a programme for a group of 36 Mozambican students (25 females and 11 males). Data were obtained from coordinators of the programmes; the data were recorded scores of pre-test and post-tests as well as marked scripts of the same. The data were analyzed through content analysis and sums and means were computed via excel spread sheet formulae. Findings show that after the candidates whose baseline proficiency was high in pre-test scores showed significant gain of proficiency after the post-test while those who score very low marks during pre- test either stagnated (no improvement resisted) or decreased further. As for gender comparison, bigger gained proficiency was registered more in female students than male ones. It is conclude that while score analysis showing high achievers improving more and low achievers stagnating or decreasing in terms of gained proficiency doesn’t tell the full story about overall learner proficiency, it does provide insights on the role of pre- action motivation for learners.
