The document discusses the purpose of assessment and provides examples to test understanding. It emphasizes that assessments should provide students accurate and unbiased information about their progress and achievement levels. A good assessment plan, or blueprint, is important to ensure assessments are valid by being within the scope of learning and reliably measure outcomes in a standardized way. It provides an example blueprint template to guide designing different sections of a test based on learning outcomes and difficulty levels. The key is for assessments to have the right form, scope, standards and mark distribution to fairly and accurately evaluate students.

9. ASSESSMENT What is its purpose?

10. Purpose of Assessment TO OBTAIN INFORMATION TO: Ascertain progress Measure levels of competence/ achievement Certify levels of competence/ achievement Select/ rank/ group Which do you identify with most?

11. Test! 16 X 8 = 1125 ÷ 9 = Give another word that means “beautiful” Explain the meaning of “sous vide” Name four world class badminton players Who is Malaysia’s present Minister of Education? Name a song sung by ABBA Name the 37 th President of USA How is rain formed? Describe the function of PowerPoint

12. Answers 128 125 Pretty, good-looking,… French for &quot;under vacuum&quot;, it is a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bath for a long time Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan, Peter Gade, Taufik Hidayat,… Y.A.B. Tan Sri Dato' Haji Muhyiddin bin Haji Mohd Yassin Mama mia, Fernando,… Richard Nixon Rain is a form of precipitation in which water falls back to earth as a liquid Powerpoint is used to create slideshows , on-screen projection s, for printing or web based displays . Scoring (total: 20) Q1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8: 1 mark each Q4, 5: 4 marks each Q9, 10: 3 marks each WHAT IS YOUR SCORE? 16-20: Good 10-15: Average <10: Poor Is the description correct/ fair to you?

13. Assessments should be able to tell test-takers “some truths” without “fear/ favour” VALIDITY: Accurate and correct RELIABILITY: Consistent and unchanged

14. What Next? a master plan: BLUEPRINT

15. Task 1: Assessment Plan Choose a subject at a particular level Plan a set of assessments for the year (you wish to monitor students’ progress and ascertain level of achievement) Indicate purpose of each assessment No Month Form of assessment Purpose 1 March Quiz/ short test Check progress 2 June 3 ? 4 ? 5

16. Purpose of Blueprint Safeguard validity: Topics are within scope of syllabus/ learning Modes that can indeed measure outcome Correct standards (level of difficulty) are used to measure Safeguard reliability: Correct amount of information obtained (time & nature) Standards are maintained; year to year/ cohort to cohort Standard is independent of the setter/ marker

18. Bloom’s Taxonomy : Cognitive Domain

19. Task 2: Test Blueprint Set up a template that reflects test format; section- item type, number of items and mark allocation per section List topics for each section and ascertain number of questions per topic Decide on learning outcome/ level of learning Decide on level of difficulty

20. An Example Sect A: 50 marks (Structured Qs) Learning Outcomes (Bloom’s Taxonomy) Marks 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Topic 10 2 Topic 8 3 Topic 14 4 Topic 6 5 Topic 12 Sect B: 30 marks (MCQ) 1 1 each 2… … 30 Sect C: 20 marks (Essay Qs) 10 10 10

21. Summary: Check blueprint Face validity- form of test/ scope; EXPECTED? Good number of test items; ENOUGH, TIME? Level of difficulty; CORRECT standard, TIME? Good mark distribution; FAIR?

22. PLAN or you may miss the mark! VALIDITY: Accurate and correct RELIABILITY: Consistent and unchanged

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