Course Code: 8602 (Educational Assessment and

Evaluation)
Unit 2
OBJECTIVES AND ASSESSMENT
 Learning Objectives
Today’s session will cover the following
aspects

 What Are Tests ?

 Purpose and Principles Of Tests
 Types Of Tests
 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
 Bloom Taxonomy
 Solo Taxonomy
 Table of Specification and its Preparation
Why Test is necessary for Assessment?
(Your previous knowledge)
 What is a Test

 It is a tool with organized questions to collect

information about students learning.
 Test is set of questions asked in specific order. It
is a tool to collect information about students’
learning in quantitative form.
 Purpose Of Tests

• Monitoring Students’ Progress

• Diagnosing Learning Problems

• Assigning Grades

• Classification and Selection of

Students

• Evaluating Instruction
 Principles Of Tests

• Clear purpose

• Relevancy

• Clear Language

• Validity and Reliability

• Table Of Specification
 Test and its Types

Types of test

 Subjective type tests

 Objective type tests
 Multiple choice tests
 Close ended tests
 Matching items tests
 Taxonomy and Classification of
Educational Objectives

Taxonomy of educational objectives

(three domains )

( I ) The Cognitive (Knowledge)

( ii ) The Affective (Attitude, Values)

( iii ) The Psychomotor (Skills)

Writing Cognitive Domain Objectives
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
(2001)
 Preparation of Table of Specification
• Table of specifications is a tool used to ensure that a test measures the content
and thinking skills that the test intends to measure.

K C  A  Total
Content Strand

No of % No of % No of % No of %

Items weightag Items weightage Items weightag Items weight

Sr. no.

e in Test in Test e age in

in Test Test

1 Geom 4 12.5 4 12.5 3 9.31 11 34.3

etry

2 Algeb 6 18.7 9 28.12 6 18.7 21 65.6

 How to Calculate Test Items in
Cells?

 For example Knowledge has 31% weightage in curriculum. There are 11 items
for Geometry in the test (i.e. 34% in curriculum). Then items of geometry to
measure knowledge level of students can be calculated as

 (Number of test items for content strand or Unit)x(knowledge wise weightage

in %)

 = 11x(31/100)
SOLO Taxonomy

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• SOLO: Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes

• Developed by Biggs and Collis (1982)

Thank You for Listening!