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Educational Measurement and Evaluation Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 27 : Diagnostic Test : Concept and Construction,
Remedial Teaching

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
27.1 Concept of Diagnostic Test
27.2 Objectives of Diagnostic Test

27.3 Characteristics of Diagnostic Test
27.4 Construction and Standardization of Diagnostic Test
27.5 Process of Diagnosis Test
27.6 Remedial Teaching
27.7 Summary
27.8 Keywords
27.9 Review Questions
27.10 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarised as below :
• To explain the Concept of diagnosis test
• To discuss the objectives of diagnosis test
• To describe the Characteristics of diagnostic test
• To discuss about the Construction and standardization of Diagnostic test
• To explain the process of diagnosis test
• To describe about the Remedial teaching
Introduction

A diagnostic test is a form of an achievement test, under which specifics and shortcomings of
knowledge acquired from learning experiences of a specific object or topic are evaluated. In these
tests, the level of a student is not found out, rather the purpose of a diagnostic test for a teacher
is to found out what difficulty is being faced by a student in understanding a topic, what can be
its possible cause, how this difficulty can be eradicated etc. Instructional diagnosis is related not
merely with students’ individual abilities and strengths, but with the remedy of their weaknesses
and difficulties too. A teacher has to bring about suitable changes in his instruction and method
of teaching in order to remove any difficulty of a student, so that he can gain maximum learning
experiences as per his ability. This type of teacher’s process is called remedial teaching.

27.1 Concept of Diagnostic Test

The teaching in schools is carried out in a planned way. In it, the teachers try to find out at
regular intervals how much the students have learnt out of what has been taught to them. The
tests that are prepared to measure it are known as achievement tests. The results of these tests
present a new problem before the teachers that which part of the subject matter taught, the

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