The document discusses different types of behaviors that can be tested in students, including recalling facts, clarifying ideas, problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. It also discusses the important first step of identifying what information and skills will be tested. A teacher must then decide whether to use a paper and pencil test or observation, and what specific test items to include based on factors like student age, attention span, and type of questions. Preparing students by providing good instruction, review, familiarizing them with formats, and sharing test information is also recommended.
The document discusses different types of behaviors that can be tested in students, including recalling facts, clarifying ideas, problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. It also discusses the important first step of identifying what information and skills will be tested. A teacher must then decide whether to use a paper and pencil test or observation, and what specific test items to include based on factors like student age, attention span, and type of questions. Preparing students by providing good instruction, review, familiarizing them with formats, and sharing test information is also recommended.
The document discusses different types of behaviors that can be tested in students, including recalling facts, clarifying ideas, problem solving, critical thinking, and creative thinking. It also discusses the important first step of identifying what information and skills will be tested. A teacher must then decide whether to use a paper and pencil test or observation, and what specific test items to include based on factors like student age, attention span, and type of questions. Preparing students by providing good instruction, review, familiarizing them with formats, and sharing test information is also recommended.
fact, concepts, and other important data on any topic or subject. Behaviors associated with the clarification and articulation of the main idea of what students are learning Behaviors that have something to do with problem solving and expression, which require students to apply what they have learned to other situations or cases in their lives. Behaviors that require students to think critically, such as looking for motives, assumptions, cause effect relationship, differences and similarities, hypotheses, and conclusion Behaviors that call for creative thinking, such as combining elements in new ways, planning original experiments, creating original solutions to a problem and building models Behaviors that necessitate judging the value or worth of a person, or idea or giving opinion on an issue Identification of the information, skills, and behaviors to be tested is the first important decision that a teacher has to take. Knowledge of what shall be tested will enable a teacher to develop an appropriate test for the purpose. A teacher has to decide whether he should give a paper and pencil test or simply gather information through observation. Should he decide to use a paper-and- pencil test, then he has to determine what test items to construct. The answer to the aforementioned question depend on the following factors: Age and attention span of the students; And type of questions to be used (1) providing learners with good instruction (2) reviewing students before testing (3) familiarizing students with question formats (4) scheduling the test (5) providing students information about the test