CORRELATION BETWEEN MARKS OBTAINED BY STUDENTS IN ASSIGNMENTS AND FINAL EXAMINATION OF MASTER OF EDUCATION CONDUCTED BY ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY

The main objective of the research was to find out the correlation between the marks obtained by the students of Allama Iqbal Open University in assignments and final examination of M.A (Education) M.Ed in Autumn 2006.For this purpose, the result gazette of M.A (Education) M.Ed was got from regional campus Allama Iqbal Open University, Bahawalpur. All the students who appeared from this region were taken as sample. The value of correlation in the subject, Elementary Education was 0.228, in Secondary Education -0.033, in Higher Education was 0.069 and in Teacher Education in Pakistan was 0.154.There were 16 students who got more than 80 marks in assignments but they were fail in the final examination because they did not get at least 40 marks in the final examination.