Group 8_Scholastic Minds

Instructor: Dr. Shazia Awan

Module 3: Assessment and Evaluation, Day 1, Reading Boot Camp

Consider Bloom’s Taxonomy in Assessment

For conceptual understanding, assessment must include different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy

in evaluation. Lower level will outlined the understanding and remembrance of fundamental

concepts. Middle level will check the application and analysis of those concepts. Higher level

will test the decision making how students evaluate certain situations. In this way, we would

be able to include learners with different levels of knowledge.

Take the Test Yourself

One suggestion is that a teacher should look at his/her designed test with a student’s

perspective. Most instructors think their designed tests are perfect but that is usually not the

case, as it may not address the skills that need to be evaluated. The test must be scrutinized

in search of any shortcomings; this could be done by drafting the test weeks earlier, taking

the test yourself, or asking the teaching assistant to take it. The process may be repeated to

make the test better.

Consider Test Length

The questions should be designed by keeping in view each student's identity e.g.

brainstorming level of each students and medical related problems. This suggestion is related

to my own experience of having a medical problem related to hand tremoring. It was

difficult of me to compete with fast pace students and few professors used to design the exam

questions in a way that they only assess the speed of the student to complete the task and not

to check their understanding and their learning potential.