2. What Are Tests ?
Purpose and Principles Of Tests
Types Of Tests
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Bloom Taxonomy
Solo Taxonomy
Table of Specification and its Preparation
Learning Objectives
Today’s session will cover the following aspects
3. Why Test is necessary for Assessment?
(Your previous knowledge)
4. What is a Test
It is a tool with organized questions to collect
information about students learning.
Test is set of questions asked in specific order. It
is a tool to collect information about students’
learning in quantitative form.
5. Purpose Of Tests
• Monitoring Students’ Progress
• Diagnosing Learning Problems
• Assigning Grades
• Classification and Selection of
Students
• Evaluating Instruction
6. Principles Of Tests
• Clear purpose
• Relevancy
• Clear Language
• Validity and Reliability
• Table Of Specification
7. Test and its Types
Types of test
Subjective type tests
Objective type tests
Multiple choice tests
Close ended tests
Matching items tests
8. Taxonomy and Classification of
Educational Objectives
Taxonomy of educational objectives
(three domains )
( I ) The Cognitive (Knowledge)
( ii ) The Affective (Attitude, Values)
( iii ) The Psychomotor (Skills)
11. Preparation of Table of
Specification
• Table of specifications is a tool used to ensure that a test measures
the content and thinking skills that the test intends to measure.
Sr.
no.
Content
Strand
K C A Total
No of
Items
%
weighta
ge in
Test
No of
Items
%
weightag
e
in Test
No of
Items
%
weighta
ge
in Test
No of
Items
%
weight
age in
Test
1 Geo
metry
4 12.5 4 12.5 3 9.31 11 34.3
2 Algeb 6 18.7 9 28.12 6 18.7 21 65.6
12. How to Calculate Test Items in
Cells?
For example Knowledge has 31% weightage in curriculum. There are 11
items for Geometry in the test (i.e. 34% in curriculum). Then items of
geometry to measure knowledge level of students can be calculated as
(Number of test items for content strand or Unit)x(knowledge wise
weightage in %)
= 11x(31/100)
