This module contains the keys to effective testing and the making of table of specification. Testing is a technique of obtaining information needed for evaluation purposes. Test administration is concerned with the physical and psychological setting in which students takes a test. Test scoring may be done by competent persons or sometimes by the use of scoring machines and lastly the test interpretation of the test scores on any test should not take place without a thorough knowledge of the technical aspects of the test. There are two test- preparation first is the Professional Ethics Guidance and the Educational Defensibility Guidelines. The no test preparation practice should violate the ethical norms of the education profession is called the professional ethics guidance , where the no test practice should increase students’ test scores without simultaneously increasing student’s mastery of the assessment domain tested is the educational defensibility guidelines. In constructing classroom tests, the first thing that a teacher should do is to identify instructional objectives and learning outcomes, listing the topics to be covered by the test, prepare the table of specification selection of the appropriate types of tests, writing and sequencing of test items then writing the direction or instructions and lastly, preparation of the answer sheet and the scoring test. A good test is one that measure learning and accurately discriminates between those students who have mastered the content and required skills from those who have not. A good test must possess the validity, reliability, objectivity, scorability, administrability, and relevance. In this module we also tackled the ways in preparing table of specification, first thing to do is to list down the topics covered for the inclusion in the test, determine the objectives to be assessed by the test, specify the number of days/hours spent for teaching a particular topic, determine the percentage allocation of test items for each topics covered, determine the number of items to construct foe each topic and distribute the number of items to the objectives to be tested.
Module 3 - Keys to Effective Testing
This module contains the keys to effective testing and the making of table of specification. Testing is a technique of obtaining information needed for evaluation purposes. Test administration is concerned with the physical and psychological setting in which students takes a test. Test scoring may be done by competent persons or sometimes by the use of scoring machines and lastly the test interpretation of the test scores on any test should not take place without a thorough knowledge of the technical aspects of the test. There are two test- preparation first is the Professional Ethics Guidance and the Educational Defensibility Guidelines. The no test preparation practice should violate the ethical norms of the education profession is called the professional ethics guidance , where the no test practice should increase students’ test scores without simultaneously increasing student’s mastery of the assessment domain tested is the educational defensibility guidelines. In constructing classroom tests, the first thing that a teacher should do is to identify instructional objectives and learning outcomes, listing the topics to be covered by the test, prepare the table of specification selection of the appropriate types of tests, writing and sequencing of test items then writing the direction or instructions and lastly, preparation of the answer sheet and the scoring test. A good test is one that measure learning and accurately discriminates between those students who have mastered the content and required skills from those who have not. A good test must possess the validity, reliability, objectivity, scorability, administrability, and relevance. In this module we also tackled the ways in preparing table of specification, first thing to do is to list down the topics covered for the inclusion in the test, determine the objectives to be assessed by the test, specify the number of days/hours spent for teaching a particular topic, determine the percentage allocation of test items for each topics covered, determine the number of items to construct foe each topic and distribute the number of items to the objectives to be tested.
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