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Unit 26: Achievement Test: Concept, Types and Construction

• clearly indicate each expected point or the parts under the outlined major areas Notes
• provide direction as to whether all points will count towards a complete or correct answer
or a set of points will be adequate enough for full credit (All this should clearly reflected),
and
• indicate marks for each expected point. Marks so distributed over expected points or their
sets should be equal to the total marks assigned for a question.
• Achievement tests are used in selection of candidates in different fields and for admission of
students in schools.
• These tests are important from the standpoint of determination of class and promotion.
• In the field of medicine and counselling, achievement tests are used extensively. These tests
are very important from the standpoint of identifying backward students diagnostic and
remedial teaching.
• Achievement tests are helpful in measurement of minimum abilities of an individual.

26.7 Keywords

Achievement : The act or process of achieving something
Construction : The process or method of building or making something
Psychological : Connected with a person’s mind

26.8 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by achievement tests ?
2. Explain the types of achievement tests on the basis of nature and types of questions asked in
the tests ?
3. Write the process of Construction of achievement type test stop by step
4. What are the significance of achievement test ?
Answers : Self Assessment
1. (i) Achievement test
(ii) oral, written, practical
(iii) essay type, short answer type, objective type
(iv) practical tests (v) simple recall
2. (i) T (ii) F (iii)T (iv) T
26.9 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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