Student teachers’ perceptions about teaching practice evaluations by supervisors and co-operating teachers in Enugu state

The problem centers around the suspicions that student teachers do not often heartily accept the marks awarded to them by the their supervisors and the co-operating teachers, where the latter take part in the grading at the end of their teaching practice exercises. But some individuals hold the view that there are no ground for these state of minds. These necessitated the study to identify the student teachers beliefs about teaching and evaluation of their performances by the co-operating and supervising teachers. One hundred and fifty student teachers from Eha-Amufu college of Education and Alvan Ikoku College of Education Owerri were sampled. Questionnaire was used for the data collection. Statistical analysis used was the percentage. The study revealed that; student teachers believe that the co-operating teachers comments on their performances were not biased; student teachers recommended that supervisors be matched with students from their own disciplines only, also that they should be more frequently supervised to enable them received enough corrections before final gradings are made. The researcher recommended that; the co-operating teachers whose classes are usually taken over by the student teachers should physically witness every lesson delivered by the student teachers. This will enable proper guidance to be made. Also, that supervising teachers preferably should come from same disciplines as the student teachers. Finally, it is recommended that the evaluation sheets should be made available, at least for a glance to the student teachers for maximum corrections to be made.