Making Test

1. Making Test Richard Mitchell

2. Why do people need test? • Testing is the best way to evaluate the knowledge or progress a person has in a particular subject or specific area of a subject. • Testing can be formal or informal • Testing can be on the knowledge a person has or the ability they have. • Testing can find out how people feel, think, act upon, or view certain details in life

3. Testing Goals • Enhance learning-is testing that will help the students learn while taking the test. • Measure learning-gives an idea of the progress the students are making through different portions of a learning objective. Horton, (2012)

4. Measuring Progress • Assessment for grades usually happen at the end of a lesson plan. • The testing is a normal standardized format that takes in the account of the information in which a person remembers through the period of that lesson plan • These assessments are normally given a full value of score to be placed in a record or report. • The final assessment averages all the grades together Horton, (2012)

5. Enhance Learning • Quizzes are given to give the student an opportunity to know what they know so that they can prepare better for the up coming test • Short test are small test that take a portion of the lesson plan. Student can use these as steps of a process to reach the final point. • Open book test or quizzes help the student practice their independent learning skills. Horton, (2012)

6. Certified Testing for Knowledge • In most cases the certified testing needs a proctor or a person that will witness the taking of the test. • Types of certified test are: SAT ASFAB PRAXIS LAW

7. Certified Test for Ability • These test are normally to evaluate how a person performs physically in different task and abilities. • They must remember sequence, procedures, and specific measurements. Nurse or Doctor Surgeon Architect or Engineer

8. Formal Assessment • Achievement test are usually exams • Readiness test a specific for the preschooler to help better determine their level of learning • Developmental screening takes an account for the physical growth of a child and compares that to thousands of similar children • Intelligence test evaluate the level of a persons intelligence • Diagnostic test The testing to diagnose a particular disability or even advancement is necessary to be done by a professional (Luby, Joan, 2006)

9. Informal Assessments • There is much knowledge of preschoolers and beyond that can be done with informal testing (Wortham, 2012). • Just by watching and observing the students while they perform certain task. • Informal test can take place at any time and place. • The teacher just have to recognize possible issues in the students progress or abilities to record and make an effort to correct the problem

10. Review • What kind of testing is needed to know if someone can perform a surgery?

11. Certified Ability! GREAT!! JOB!!!

12. What Kind of Testing was Just Used? • Did the testing help: ENHANCE LEARNING MEASURE LEARNING

13. FANTASTIC!!! • The best answer is Enhance learning but if this test was measured for a real grade then both answers would be correct.

14. Why are Surveys Necessary? • A survey is another form of testing that ask a group of people specific questions to better find out their thoughts and feelings. • The survey can determine if procedures or actions need to be changed or implemented. • If enough people get involved then the surveys can take action to resolve issues.

15. Make a Great Survey • What is important? Make a choice on what to focus on in the survey. • Set objectives on how to achieve the goals. Gather the data that is needed. • Never ask leading questions. Let the respondents make a choice. • Try the survey out on people that are known before a group of unknown • Collect, record, and analyze the results then act upon the results. Horton, (2012).

16. Compare • Making a test or a survey require the same principles. • Both need to define goals of what the test want to accomplish • Both need to measure and or enhance learning in some way • Both need to accomplish objectives • Both test the activities of people and record the results

17. Test Questions Subjective Objective Have a clear correctness answer Can be evaluated by a computer • Require human thought and response. • Require a human to judge the response

18. Give it a Try • Multiple choice, true/false, and fill in the blanks question can use a computer to grade the answers • Summary questions will require a human to grade the answer • Humans can grade both but can a computer grade both? Yes NO

19. NO • Summary question have feelings and content that will contain personal information. • Summary question require a human to judge if the content is with in certain grading standards. • This especially true for Physical testing

20. Feedback • As shown in the previous slide the use of feedback is a good practice to use to help enhance learning more. • Even though the answer was incorrect, the feedback left by the instructor, helped the student gain further knowledge. • With feedback the learner can now use that information the next time the same question is used

21. Result Processing • Once the test are finished the results are processed. • Even surveys need to be processed • The test will have a grade point value depending on how many questions are in the test versus how many question are right compared to being incorrect • The results from the survey will show those in charge of changing procedures or laws what the people want. • Results of test will help instructor know how much information the students have retained.

22. Conclusion • Testing is a important process to help evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each individual • There are different way to make evaluation and for different reasons • Once a define purpose for evaluation is set in place the objective to make the evaluation is made • Then all that is left is to find the right questions to better measure and enhance the learning of the students.

23. Conclusion • Supply feedback where and when needed • Use results to judge how much the students know • Find ways to correct without harmful words • Make the results of surveys do all the work

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25. References • Horton, W. (2012). E-Learning by design (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley. • Luby, Joan, 2006, (Handbook of Preschool Mental Health), retrieved October 19, 2012, at http://books.google.com/books?id=VopO64gPLmwC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=Pre school+diagnostic&source=bl&ots=W6URu9jwA3&sig=MhkbrdKwGnZw4M9pLN9X-oGAooA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=t5CUMuwMeW60AHikYH4BA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Preschool%20diagnostic&f=false • Wortham, S.C. (2012). Assessment In Early Childhood Education. (6th edition) Upper Saddle River: New Jersey.