CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The worth of a school graduate is a product of good teaching and assessing. Superficial effort in this regard will only breed deception and defects students parading high grades from theory and the conventional practical examination without the corresponding skills to go with them. The advantages of on-the-spot assessment, as a complement or supplement of the conventional type, are many and overwhelming. It promotes balance in teaching and assessing. It can signal curriculum reform. It will also make the certificate issued in our school to be of worth and pride. If the school system and education sectors can pay the price, and if the teachers and the students are ready to adopt on-the-spot assessment of skills in addition to assessing products of investigation in science, the practice will enhance the prestige of the system and create a paradigm shift in our science and technological aspirations.