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

27.6 Remedial Teaching Notes
Remedial Measures

Remedial-Teaching is conducted to eradicate the shortcomings which are found out by the diagnostic
tests. The success of remedial measures depends on the fact how widely the teacher knows of the
students’ shortcomings. The plan for individual or collective remedial measures are adopted
according to the nature of shortcomings. It is necessary that the remedies of shortcomings are done
readily and immediately, else the shortcomings may become permanent. For remedial measures,
the students are divided into different groups, as dull, common and intelligent, etc. The collective
and individual remedial measures for these different groups are prepared differently for each of
these groups. The form of remedial measures are determined by the teachers, but this task must be
conducted immediately. The following factors should be kept in view while conducting remedial
measures :
(1) The weak students should be asked to sit on the front seats in the class.
(2) The development of the subject matter should be done with the help of examples and
illustrations.
(3) The attention of the students should be drawn to those concepts, principles and activities
related to the subject matter in which they commit errors.
(4) The fundamental concepts of mathematics and other subjects, such as factors, percentage, unit,
square root, etc. should be taught carefully.
(5) The students should be provided sufficient opportunity for thinking and reasoning in the
class.
(6) The concepts should be made clear to the weak students by using models, charts and other
audio-visual aids.
(7) The matter written on the blackboard should be clear, correct, orderly and useful.
(8) The exercises on each sub-topic should be such which the students can think about themselves.
(9) The correction in the written work of the students should be done in their presence.
(10) The students should be given individual counselling even after the class, to help them in
learning.

What is prognostic test ?

Educational Diagnosis and Remedial Teaching
Diagnostic test is constructed for educational diagnosis, and remedial teaching is conducted on the
basis of diagnosis. We shall clarify it by an example.
For example, take teaching of a sub-topic of mathematics : square root. Suppose, after the teacher
has taught the method of finding out square root, some of the students still commit error in it. The
teacher will conduct diagnostic and remedial work in this order:
1. First, the teacher will construct different questions of decimal numbers to find out square root;
such as :
(a) Find out square root of the following numbers :
(i) 1355.23 (ii) 25.2143 (iii) 44.135678
(b) Find out square root of the following numbers up to two decimal points :
(i) 210.7 (ii) 12345.071 (iii) 7.0357

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