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Pros and Cons of Essay Tests in Education

Explore the advantages and disadvantages of using essay tests in education. Learn how these tests can empower students to showcase critical thinking and creativity, but also understand the challenges of subjective grading and limited content sampling. Consider the impact on different learning styles and the potential for encouraging bluffing.

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Pros and Cons of Essay Tests in Education

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  1. Essay Advantages and Disadvantages Daisy E. Gonzalvo

  2. Advantages

  3. Advantages: • It is easier to prepare and less time consuming compared to other paper and pencil tests.

  4. Advantages: • Require students to demonstrate critical thinkingin organizing and producing an answer beyond rote recall and memory

  5. Advantages: • Empower students to demonstrate their knowledgewithin broad limits beyond the restraint of objective tests (true false, multiple choice)

  6. Advantages: • Allows learners to demonstrate originality and creativity • Presents more possibilities for diagnosis

  7. Disadvantages

  8. Disadvantages: • Grading is often subjective and not consistent, colored bypreconceptions of student, prior performance, time of day, neatness and handwriting, spelling and grammar, and where the actual test falls in

  9. Disadvantages: • Can be a limited sampling of content • Good writing requires time to think,organize, write and revise • Time consuming to correct

  10. Disadvantages: • Advantageous for students with good writing and verbal skillsas opposed to those who have alternative learning styles (visual and kinesthetic)

  11. Disadvantages: • Essay questions are not always properly developedto assess higher thinking skills (often only test for recall and style)

  12. Disadvantages: • Advantageous for students who are quick,as opposed to those who take time to develop an argument or may suffer from writers block

  13. Disadvantages: • Usually encourages bluffing. • Low variation of scores.

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