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As a teacher, there are some things you should know about evaluation, assessment and measurement in order to achieve success in assessing your pupils’ progress in learning. Continue reading to know them. 1. What is Evaluation? Evaluation is a purposeful, cyclical process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting relevant...
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05/03/2023 Mohamed Ramadan
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Difficult Job It is not easy to construct a good test to measure what you want. Writing good effective test items is a difficult job as it needs much practice and experience and there are many things to be considered to create good test items. A Valuable Resource...
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23/07/2022 Mohamed Ramadan
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Multiple choice questions or MCQs are less subject to guessing. They are the most common objective-type questions. In addition, they can be used to assess higher-level thinking. An MCQ has several choices from which the student must select the correct answer to get the full mark. It is...
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08/04/2021 Mohamed Ramadan
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There are eight kinds of testing. They are as follows: 1. Direct Testing: Testing is said to be direct when the student is required to perform directly the skill which we wish to measure, e.g. we ask students to write compositions if we want to know how well...
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26/07/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
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How to prepare a good language test? Here is a list of 16 tips to consider when you are about to prepare your test. 1- Determine the purpose of the test. 2- Define the content area to be tested. 3- Choose and prepare appropriate and relevant items. 4-...
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04/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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It is not easy to construct a good test to measure what you want. Writing good effective test items is a difficult job as it needs much practice and experience. These items must achieve many things to be considered good ones. The following are some. Functions of the...
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25/04/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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Some educators argue against using tests. They say students study for tests only at the end of the semester. Students also tend to study when the school year is about to finish, while not working throughout the course. Once the test has finished, students forget all that had...
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23/04/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
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