The document discusses objectives and assessment for an educational assessment and evaluation course. It covers the purpose of tests, different types of tests, taxonomies for educational objectives including Bloom's taxonomy, and how to create a table of specification. Tests are used to monitor student progress, diagnose learning problems, assign grades, and evaluate instruction. A table of specification ensures a test measures the intended content and skills by listing items in cells of the content strands crossed with cognitive levels. The document provides examples of how to calculate the number of test items in each cell based on the weightings.

1. OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT
Course Code: 8602 (Educational Assessment and
Evaluation)
Unit 2

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)

9. Writing Cognitive Domain Objectives

10. Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy (2001)

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)

13. SOLO Taxonomy

14. • SOLO: Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes
• Developed by Biggs and Collis (1982)

16. Thank You for Listening!