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This study assessed the performance of senior secondary school students in Economics as a school subject in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The study specifically examined the assessment techniques utilized in assessing students and the students’ academic performance in Economics. A survey research design was adopted for the study on a population of 1,981 senior secondary school students in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. The sample size was 283 collected from nine public secondary schools. Data were collected from a representative sample of students with a face-validated structured performance records sheets. The instrument was not subjected to reliability computation because it was a checklist naturalistic in nature which does not require the establishment of reliability index before usage. Data ⁴were collected independently from Economics teachers records. Mean and Analysis of variance statistics were utilized to analyzed collected data.