The document discusses practicality and efficiency as important factors for teacher assessments. Assessments should be familiar to teachers and easy to administer and score so they don't require too much time or resources. Multiple choice tests are efficient to score but time-consuming to create, while essay tests are quicker to make but longer to grade. Performance assessments take the most time. Assessments should also have simple instructions, accurate scoring methods, clear results, and low costs.

1. PRACTICALITY AND EFFICIENCY

2. Refers to the teacher’s familiarity with
the methods used, time required for the
assessment, complexity of the
administration, ease of scoring, ease of
interpretation of the test results and the
materials used must be at the lowest
cost.

3. Teachers need to be familiar with the
assessment. Know the strengths and limitation
therefore they can properly interpret students’
responses. Taking an unfamiliar assessment
method creates a risk on time and resources
therefore, will get questionable results from
students’ responses.

4. Multiple choice tests take a long time to
prepare but a relatively short time for
students to complete and for teachers to
score
Essay tests take less time to prepare,
but longer time to score
Performance assessments probably the
most time intensive

5. Assessment that requires long,
complicated directions and setup are
less efficient.

6. Scoring need to match your method and
purpose.

7. Provide sufficient information so that
whatever interpretation is made is
accurate.

8. Assessments are inexpensive.