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Dinesh Kumar, LPU Unit 1: Educational Testing and Assessment : Concept, Context, Issues and Current Trends

Unit 1: Educational Testing and Assessment : Concept, Notes
Context, Issues and Current Trends

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
1.1 Concept of Educational Testing
1.2 Context of Educational Testing
1.3 Issues of Educational Testing
1.4 Current Trends in Testing
1.5 Concept of Educational Assessment
1.6 Context of Educational Assessment
1.7 Issues of Present System of Assessment
1.8 Current Trends in Educational Assessment
1.9 Summary
1.10 Keywords
1.11 Review Questions
1.12 Further Readings

Objectives

Objectives of this unit can be summarised as below :
• To explain the Concept of Educational Testing
• To discuss about the Context of Educational Testing
• To describe the issues of Educational Testing
• To discuss about current trends in Educational Testing
• To explain about the Concept of Educational Assessment
• To discuss about the Context of Educational Assessment
• To describe about issues of Educational Assessment
• To discuss about current trends in Educational Assessment

Introduction
Almost all the Commissions on education as also the National Policy on Education (1986), Programme
of Action (1992) and National Curriculum Framework (2000) of NCERT have all stressed the need
for a more continuous and comprehensive evaluation of students in order to pass more sound
judgments about students’ learning and growth. Regular Testing assessment through pupils’ lives
in school is considered essential for remedial treatment of those who fall below the acceptable
performance level. It is in this context that the role of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
(C.C.E.) is highlighted in appraising the whole child and recognising it as a complement of external
examination by providing due weight age to C.C.E. in the final assessment of the total development
of the child.

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