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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes • Rational mode
• Formative mode
• Summative mode
• All the four basic techniques of assessment, i.e. testing, observation, inquiry and analysis, will
be employed in different situations to collect the relevant evidences about pupils’ growth and
development in both cognitive and non-cognitive areas.
• Tests
(a) Readiness tests
(b) Criterion-referenced unit-tests
(c) Annual or half-yearly tests
(d) Diagnostic tests
• Depending upon the hard spots of learning as revealed in different unit-tests, specific diagnostic
tests would be used on such selected areas.
• Performance on Assignments : Home and school assignments will be regularly used by teachers
to reinforce what is taught and develop in students the ability to use what is learnt.
• Performance on Orals : Oral testing by means of class questioning, oral unit-tests, oral review
sessions, quizzes, peer discussion etc.
(a) Unless protagonists of reform develop a deep conviction and full faith (not 20% or 25%) in
teachers’ assessments and conceptualise dichotomy observable in theory and practice,
establishment of a pedagogicaly sound system of SBA would be difficult.
(b) Unless a theoretically sound, indigenous, growth-oriented and functionally operative model
of SBA is developed and made the basis of continuous and comprehensive evaluation, we
are not likely to achieve the intended objectives of SBA to the desired extent.
(c) No system of school-based assessment would succeed unless we have full faith in the
competency of practising teachers and provide them continued motivation, encouragement
and recurrent training for empowering them to implement SBA system effectively to achieve
the desired attainment targets.

1.10 Keywords

Testing : The activity of examining something/somebody to find something out.
Assessment : An opinion or a judgement about something that has been thought about very
carefully
Context : The situation in which something happens and that helps you to understand it.

1.11 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by Concept of Educational testing ?
2. What is the nature of Educational Testing ?
3. Write the Testing Techniques.
4. What is Educational Assessment ?
5. Give current trends in Educational Assessment
6. What are the issues of Educational Testing?

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