Module 4 - Development of Assessment Tools

This module contains different kinds of test, and assessment tool that a teacher can used in assessing students learning. A teacher can choose among true or false modified true or false, multiple choice, matching type, completion test, cloze test, and essay test in making his or her examinations such that it is congruent on his or her objectives. The advantages and the disadvantages of these tests were also discussed in this module. The intelligence test, personality test, aptitude test and interest inventory were also discussed in this module and the importance of it. Intelligence test measures the intelligence quotient of an individual. There are two types of intelligence test, the verbal which is the ability to comprehend ad solve language-based problems and the nonverbal intelligence which is the ability to understand and solve visual and spatial problems. The personality test are those test s in which it measures the ways in which the individual’s interest with other individuals or in terms of the roles an individual has ascribed to himself and adopts in the society. The Aptitude test refers to the possessing more of a natural talent for a task, even if that talent is not yet fully developed. It is one of the most important tests that could be considered in choosing one’s career. The Interest inventory is a self -assessment tool used in career planning, which assess ones like or dislikes of a variety of activities, objects, types of persons. Teachers can also choose among case study, questionnaire, rating scales and sociogram in assessing his or her students. Teachers can use sociogram or also called as the friendship chart in knowing his or her students attitude in class.