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What Teachers Should Know About Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement?

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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...

05/03/2023 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment No Comment

Writing Effective Test Items: The Definitive Guide

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...

23/07/2022 Mohamed Ramadan Publications No Comment

The Guidelines Every Teacher Needs To Create Effective MCQs

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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 a number of alternative choices from which the student must select the correct answer to get the full...

08/04/2021 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment 2 Comments

Recognize The 8 Kinds Of Language Testing & The 6 Types Of Tests

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...

26/07/2020 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment 12 Comments

The Guidelines EFL Teachers Need To Write Effective Test Questions

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It is a challenging task for teachers to write test questions, especially when a test is being used to measure certain learning outcomes. Take into account the following guidelines before you begin writing test questions. Prepare Students For The Test By: Telling them the main purpose of the...

13/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment No Comment

16 Tips To Prepare A Good Language Test

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-...

04/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment No Comment

Writing Effective Test Questions: The Definitive Guide

What This eBook Is About? It is a practical guide to constructing effective test questions. It provides teachers with step-by-step instructions they need to go deeper, further and faster toward making a success in preparing effective classroom exams with ease and comfort. Why I’ve Created It? I created...

22/04/2019 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment 2 Comments

Practical Guidelines For Developing Good EFL Test Items

Before providing you with some important guidelines for writing good EFL test items, I want to assure you that you know the following terms used in testing. Test Blueprint (or Test Specifications) It identifies the objectives and skills that you test and the relative weight on the test...

07/04/2019 Mohamed Ramadan Testing and Assessment 2 Comments