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Educational Measurement and Evaluation Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 26: Achievement Test: Concept, Types and

Construction

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
26.1 Concept of Achievement Test
26.2 Aims of Achievement Test
26.3 Types of Achievement Test
26.4 Construction of Achievement Test

26.5 Significance of Achievement Test
26.6 Summary
26.7 Keywords
26.8 Review Questions
26.9 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarised as below :
• To explain the Concept of Achievement test
• To discuss about the aims of Achievement test
• To describe about the types of Achievement test
• To explain about the construction of Achievement test
Introduction

As a teacher one is involved directly in the evaluation of the learner. The theory that you have
learnt will have to be applied by you as a teacher in the classroom situation. It ‘Learner’s Evaluation
in general and this unit in particular is concerned with this very important activity of teachers.
Teachers teach and help the learners to learn. The learning that takes place is assessed or evaluated
not only for the learner’s benefit but also for the teacher to evaluate his/her own work. At the
end of a lesson or a group of lessons, the teacher needs to get feedback on what the learner has
achieved, as a result of the teacher’s efforts and also, indirectly to assess his/her own achievement
as a teacher. This feedback comes with the help of a tool, generally an achievement test. An
achievement test is designed to evaluate a unit during the teaching-learning process. The unit of
teaching-learning may be, as has already been mentioned, one lesson or a group of lessons
transacted in a particular time period. You have already read about achievement tests in the
previous unit. In this unit we will discuss the same in detail.

26.1 Concept of Achievement Test

Teaching work in schools is carried out in a controlled manner. Under it, the teachers try to find
out after a certain interval, how much the students have learnt. The tests which are prepared to
find it out, are called achievement tests. In the words of Ebel :

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