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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes • Character disorders may be indicated by impetuous and uncritical responses that are incorrect
but are given with assurance and pretentiousness.
• The selective character, if any, of a person’s vocabulary and information (two subtests widely
used) will shed light upon his experiences, interests, cultural background.
• A personality trait such as compulsiveness (as opposed to desirable thoroughness and self-
criticism) may be revealed by excessively detailed responses and by numerous and
unnecessary alternative responses.
• Organic damage may be detected through selected kinds of subtests; for example, disturbance
of the visual-motor function as indicated by the diamond copying test (Stanford-Binet) and
the object assembly test (Bellevue), among others.
• Scatter analysis (discussed in detail in Chapter 14) is essential to the discernment of superior,
inferior, and impaired psychological functions.
• Sensitized observations on the part of the examiner will enable him, in general, to evaluate
how the subject proceeded in both success and failure.

13.5 Keywords

Relative : Considered and judged by being compared with some else
Quantitative : Connected with the amount or number of something rather than with how
good it is

13.6 Review Questions

1. Explain the terms “Percentile and Decile” ranks.
2. What is intelligent Quotient ?
3. Discuss about qualitative interpretation of test scores.
4. Describe the quantitative interpretation of test scores.

Answer : Self Assessment
1. (i) relative rank (ii) percentile rank
(iii) Decile rank (iv) Intelligence quotient
(v) deviation IQ
2. (i) T (ii) F (iii)T

13.7 Further Readings

1. Education Measurement and Evaluation : J.Swarupa Rani, Discovery Publishing
house.
2. Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching : Norman Edward Gronlund Macmillian
3. Measurement and Assessment in Teaching : Robert L. Linn Pearson Education
India.
4. Program Evaluation and performance measurement : James C. Me. David, Laura
R.L. Hawthorn, Sage Publications.

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