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The document outlines various tools and methods of assessment, including objective methods, achievement tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, personality inventories, subjective methods, rating scales, project methods, self-reporting techniques, anecdotal records, autobiographic techniques, interviews, and e-techniques. Each method is described with its purpose, types, benefits, and uses in educational and psychological contexts. The document emphasizes the importance of selecting appropriate assessment methods to evaluate knowledge, skills, and personal attributes effectively.

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The document outlines various tools and methods of assessment, including objective methods, achievement tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, personality inventories, subjective methods, rating scales, project methods, self-reporting techniques, anecdotal records, autobiographic techniques, interviews, and e-techniques. Each method is described with its purpose, types, benefits, and uses in educational and psychological contexts. The document emphasizes the importance of selecting appropriate assessment methods to evaluate knowledge, skills, and personal attributes effectively.

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TOOLS AND METHODS OF ASSESSMENT

Lecture No.6
Objective Method
• Highly Structured
• Objectivity Of Scoring
• Easy To Score
• Easy To Administer
• Time Saving
• Reliable
• Economic
ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Test designed to access the leaner knowledge and skill in a specific area, measuring what they learned after
instruction
Purpose : Measure knowledge of a particular case
Uses: Educational assessment
Educational accountability (feedback to students, parents, educators
Stakeholders)
Inform - -instructional decision maker (what students know, do not know,
adjustment of teaching)

Types: Teacher made tests: tailored with specific needs, specific objectives.
Standardized tests (developed by experts, to compare the student
performance across the groups
ACHIEVEMENT TEST
Diagnostic tests
Formative tests
Speed tests
Prognostic tests
Summative tests
Performance tests
Benefits
Morale upgrading
Collaboration
Belongingness
Innovative
APTIUDE TEST
Test designed to assess a persons potential or natural ability to learn and Perform specific tasks, skills rather than to
measure some which already Knows ( prediction of person capacity)

Types: Verbal Aptitude: (recalling, comprehension, vocabulary written expression)


Numerical Aptitude: (evaluate mathematical ability to visualize and manipulate in space)
Mechanical Aptitude : ( mechanical principles and tools)
Abstract Reasoning:( ability to analyze information, pattern, solve problem on a complex intellectual level)

Uses: Career Counselling


Recruitment and Selection
Educational Placement
INTELLIENCE TESTS
A series of task designed to measure a person capacity to make abstraction, learn and Deal with noval
situations

Tests Stanford-- Binet Intelligence Scale


Binet, Stanford University, American version
1937,1960, 1971, 1986, 2003
(Age -- Grade Series) CHILDREN
IQ = Mental AGE
----------------- x 100
Chronological Age
Binet- Simon Intelligence Test
INTELLIENCE TESTS
Raverns Progressive Matrices

Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WAIS)


(Standardized Intelligence Test)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults (WAIS)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISE)
(Measure intelligence and cognitive abilities in adults and adolescence)
PPERSONALITY INVENTORIES

These are to test Human personality construct


most are introspective in their nature (subjective)
Self Report, Questionnaires, Report from life Records (L _ data) e.g. Rating Scales
First Test : 1920 selection for army
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MIMI)
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ( 16 PF)

Purposes
Clinical Assessment (diagnoses: psychological problems/ disorder)
Research : Personality traits and their relationship with other variables

Career Guidance
Employee Selection
SUBJECTIVE MEHTODS
Assess areas of students performance which are complex and qualitative, using questionnaires
which have more than one correct answers or more ways to respond
Personal Opinions
Feelings
Experiences
Thoughts
Benefits
Less time to develop
Offer students to be creative or critical
Response short answers
Answer in an easy
Define term, concept in their own words
Response to theoretical scenario
Interpretation
Defending opinion
Excellent to subjects: philosophy, political science
RATING SCALES

A structured tool together information about quantitative or qualitative attribute


By providing respondent with a set of predefined choices or categories to evaluate a specific criterion

Purposes
To quantify subjective experience, opinion making it easier to collect and analyze it
e.g. Likert Scale, Numerical Scales, Star Rating (using stars to represent level of satisfaction
TYPES
Ordinal Scale (rank of item in preference or importance
Interval Scale: provide equal interval between values
Ratio Scale: A true zero point allowing for comparison of absolute values
Uses
Market Research
Performance Evaluation of Employees
Customer Satisfaction
Educational Assessment
PROJECT METHODS
Method where students engage in a hand on problem solving activity over a period of time :
Learning through experience and collaboration
Types
Construction Type
Enjoyment Type
Problem Solving type
Skill type
Steps Creating a Situation
Selection of a Problem
Planning
Execution
Evaluation
Benefits Learning through experience
Purpose and relevance
Engaging Students
Developing Skills
Students lead
Promoting Independence

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SELF REPORTING TECHNIQUES
Methods where individuals provide information about themselves, through
Questionnaires, diaries etc. to gather data
Questionnaires: Structured, Non – structured
Interview: Structured, Non structured
Diaries: Personal record
Liker Scales:
Semantic Differential Scales: Used to measure attitude by asking students to rate a Bipolar Scale (good / bad)
Psycho metric Tests: Standardized tools which measure abilities, personality Traits or other Psychological constructs

Advantages: Direct access to the subject


Ease of use
Disadvantages: Potential of Biase
Social desirability Bias
Recall Bias
Validity Concerns
ANACDOTAL RECORD
A brief factual, descriptive narrative of a specific observed behaviour or interaction, used to
Document a child development and learning often in early childhood.

Purpose: to understand strengths and challenges, learning styles and Who, What, When, How
Assessment, communication, planning
Advantages: Factual
Descriptive
Concise
Structured
Disadvantages: Time consuming
Personal Bias

Lack of desired skill


AUTO BIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE
Various methods and styles used to craft personal narrative including thematic exploration,
confessional writing, and ue of specific format like interview, graphic novel, or letter collection
Purpose
To tell a factual, chronological and useful story of one life
Elements: Genuine Story Telling
Personal voice
Story telling Techniques
Dialogue
Symbols
Chronical order
Thematic Focus
Memory Togging: old photos. journals to recall past events

Seeking feedback
Revision
Research
INTERVIEW
A structured conversation
One ask questions ither replies
Common method to gather information
Assessing skills: Technical skills, soft skills: communication, problem solving, team work, leadership
skills)
STEPS;
Preparation
First impression
Run offensive
Not defensive
Use non verbal strategy
Be positive
Connect Dots
E-TECHNIQUS
Utilize technology for assessment and evaluation
Online quiz
exams
simulations
portfolios
rubrics
peer assessment
feedback
automatic test tools
online interviews
Socrative
static analysis
open ended (easy) questions
drag and drag activities
online inter views
dialogue simulations
on line polls
game type activities
forum posts
on line assessment tools for distance education (I spring suite, Socrative, google forms)

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