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Development of Tools For Classroom Base Assessment
Development of Tools For Classroom Base Assessment
Classroom Base
Assessment
SECTION 3
Planning the Test
CHAPTER 7
Overview Teachers use summative
testing as their principal
means to arrive at objective
measures of students’
performance , a practice also
accepted by the stakeholders.
This chapter intends to assist
you and the teacher in
planning for the development
of Classroom-base tests to
ensure their validity for
measuring student
achievement. It will provide
Specifyingthe purpose of the test from
the very outset.
Identifying
what essential learning
outcomes to be measured, and
Preparing a test blueprint that guide
the construction of items.
Overall Test Development
Process
B.Item
Review Contructio
C. Review and
Constructio
n pool of n Phase
phase revise
items
item
Preparing a Test Blueprint
Chapter 8
The previous chapter has familiarize you with the initial
process classroom test. True to all types of assessment tests,
it always start with a planning phase that basically answer the
question, What Do I Test? ,and leads you to the preparation of
a test blueprint or Table of Specifications which delineate the
essential learning outcomes to be assessed following a
balance distribution of items across the desire cognitive
behaviors. The present chapter now brings you to answer the
question, How Do I Test?, How do I operationalize assessment
of the learning outcomes intended for a period of study. It now
introduce you to a useful menu test types that are
appropriate to guage the learning outcomes propose by the
curriculum
standards,
how to select them and how to construct them.
CATEGORIZING TEST TYPES
TEST TYPES
Selection Performance
Supply Type Type Type
1. Paper-pencil
1. Binary Choice 2. Identification
1. Completion
2. Multiple Choice 3. Stimulated
2. Short Answer
3. Matching performance
3. Essay Restricted
4. Essay Extended 4. Work sample
A.Measuring knowledge and
Simple Understanding