This document discusses the role of testing in teaching. It suggests that testing has traditionally been and remains an integral part of the teaching process, whether through systematic teaching and testing or discovery-based learning. The document also notes that test results can be useful for teachers and administrators to share information with boards, parents, and the public, and to measure the effectiveness of instruction and student learning. Teachers appear to have a generally supportive attitude toward testing when it is integrated with their teaching experience and knowledge.

1. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

2. INTEGRATING TESTING WITH
TEACHING
 Introduction
 Whether this process took place through
systematic teaching and testing, or
 whether it was through a discovery
approach, testing was, and remains, an
integral part of teaching.

3. IN WHAT WAYS CAN TESTING BE
LINKED TO TEACHING?

4. IN WHAT WAYS CAN TESTING BE USED TO HELP TEACHERS AND
ADMINISTRATORS?
 Test results are  Test results are
important devices to useful tools for
share information with measuring the
boards of education, effectiveness of
parents, and the instruction and
general public learning
through the media.

5. what appear to be teachers' and
administrators' attitudes
towards their use of tests?
 Teachers generally seem to be more
supportive of testing than typified in the
literature.
 Teachers attitudes are in part a function of
their experience and their knowledge of
 testing.

6. what do students feel about the
tests they take?

7. THANK YOU