Achievement tests are designed to measure students' knowledge and academic progress over time in the subjects and skills learned in school. They evaluate the effectiveness of schools, teachers, and help determine appropriate course placement for students. Achievement tests are "backward-looking" in that they assess how well students have learned expected material. Characteristics of a good achievement test include reliability, validity, ease of administration, cost, time, acceptability, specificity, and being precise and clear. The construction of an achievement test involves planning, designing, preparing items and scoring keys, and analyzing questions.

1. ACHIEVEMENT TEST
Presented by :
Surekha V S
Assistant Professor in Commerce Education
SVTEC Akkikkavu

2. Meaning
Achievement tests are designed to measure the
knowledge and skills students learned in school or to
determine the academic progress they have made over
a period of time.

3. Achievement tests evaluate the effectiveness of a
schools and teachers, or identify the appropriate
academic placement for a student—i.e., what courses
or programs may be deemed most suitable, or what
forms of academic support they may need

4. Achievement tests are “backward-looking” because it
measure how well students have learned what they
were expected to learn.

5. Any test designed to assess the achievement in any subject
with regard to a set of pre- determined objectives is called an
achievement test.

6. Definition
Any test that measures the
accomplishments of an individual
after a period of training or learning
N M DOWNIE

7. “The type of ability test that
describes what a person has
learn to do”
Thorndike & Hagen

8. Characteristics of a good achievement test
 Reliability
 Validity
 Ease in administration
 Cost
 Time
 Acceptability
 Specificity
 Precise & clear

9. Construction of an Achievement Test
• Plan for the test
• Design for the test
• Preparation of
• Writing of items
• Preparation of scoring key & marking scheme
• Question- wise Analysis

10. Plan for the test
Paper setter consider :
 What he/ she intends to measure/ find out
 Learing outcomes
 Maximum time & marks
 Nature of the test

11. • Preliminary Details:
• Name of the Student Teacher :
• Name of the School :
• Standard & Division :
• Subject :
• Unit :
• Duration :
• Date :
• Learning Outcomes :
• Thinking Skills :

12. Design for the test
• Weigtage to unit/ topic & learning outcomes
• Weightage to Thinking Skills
• Weightage to form of questions

13. Weightage to unit/ topic & Learning Outcomes

14. Weightage to Thinking Skills

15. Weightage to form of Questions

17. Preparation of Scoring key & Marking Scheme

18. Marking Sheme

19. Question- wise Analysis

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