Tests in Classroom
Multiple choice tests are a favored method of testing due to its numerous advantages. First of all a faculty is familiar with developing them and it is easy to monitor cheating. These tests are easy to administer and are cost effective. The test facilitates rapid feedback due to the ease of scoring. The test also covers a broad part of the content. However the ability of a student can not only be measured using one mode of testing. Therefore, a student's ability to meet the course outcome has to be measured using different testing methods. Multiple choice tests are advantageous for some students as opposed to others who are not good at this mode of testing amend hence they will not be truereflection of the capabilities of a student. Every student has the right to a fair education and an equally mode of testing. There is need of examining the disadvantages of multiple choice tests when it comesto meeting the course outcome for students. These tests are particularly disadvantageous when it comes to the students who are learning English as an additional language. These tests are difficult to the EAL students and they are often last and score lowest in these tests as compared to the knowledge they demonstrate in class. This is because they are struggling to read through the test questions since they are constructed in English. This is a new language to them hence it would be difficult for them to understand this test and answer the questions with ease. To them actually this seems like taking tow test at the same time. Therefore, the construction of tests has to take intoconsideration the fact that there are so...
Therefore language and culture bias have to be considered when it come stop the construction of test due to the fact that there is an increased diversity among students.
Multiple choice are a useful tool in evaluation of students however, they are difficult to design well. Procedures require that learners use their contextual as well as linguistic knowledgeso as to reconstruct the meaning of a particular text.They are easy to prepare as well as correct but the score of students is dependent on the particular words that they understand on the questions as opposed to their general knowledge of English language. This means that the rules that apply to the construction of multiple choices have to be taken seriously. For instance, the stem which is the question has to brief and clear. The alternatives where the possible answer could be should be of the same length, in a sequential order and meaningful. Thedistractor, which is an incorrect choice but is a plausible one. Each of the multiple choices needs to have only one answer from the choices that have been provided. The construction of these tests has to be based on the learning objectives. If multiple choice tests are properly constructed then it would be very easy for students to understand them and hence score well…
Level 2: Beginning: Children can make use of simple phrases. Level 3: Developing: Children exhibit hesitant use of written and spoken academic and social English. Level 4: Expanding: Children show comfort with social English, while have difficulty with academic English. Level 5: Bridging: Children are capable of understanding both academic and social English with competency, although with some difficulty (Law & Eckes 2007, p.47). The question of whether an incoming
Classroom Discipline Cook-Sather, a. (2009). "I'm not afraid to listen: Prospective teachers learning from students." Theory Into Practice, 48(3), 176-183. Cook-Sather's article describes a teacher education program she conducts at Bryn Mawr College and the results of a survey of teachers who went through the program. The program is called the Teaching and Learning Together (TLT). Through TLT, secondary education students at the college have substantial interaction with high school students from area
Increasingly, Courts are understanding that clothing that depicts sexual acts, coarse language, bodily fluids, or offense and bigoted messages disallows an appropriate educational experience. One response to this is a school dress code at one end of the spectrum, and school uniforms at the other. One can debate the efficacy of these provisions, but the basic difference is that the Tinker case was classified as a non-offensive protest (a
Certainly, there is a difference between mastery and expertise, but depending on the curriculum the idea of mastery goes beyond Bloom's rote memory and moves so that student's can demonstrate competence and an ability to synthesize past information (Lalley and Gentile, 2009, 29-30). The idea, though, is to ask ourselves as educators what the point of assessment is: grading for parents and administrators, checking progress, or as a learning tool
According to Bales, 1999, the concept behind SYMLOG is that "every act of behavior takes place in a larger context, that it is a part of an interactive field of influences." Further, "the approach assumes that one needs to understand the larger context -- person, interpersonal, group, and external situation -- in order to understand the patterns of behavior and to influence them successfully." With SYMLOG, measurement procedures are
It is a quantitative instrument, that has been statistically validated, and probably most appropriate as an instrument to ensure adherence to certain state and/or national standards. MCC -- Dialogue approach to rating a teacher's performance. Both qualitative and quantitative in nature, does encourage robust dialogue between teacher and observer, and more self-analysis from the instructor. Essentially an evolving template that can be used in multiple grades, classrooms, and subject areas.