Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2015

TEST CONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION: A BRIEF REVIEW

Shafaat Hussain, Sumaiya Sajid

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 Beginning from intuitive via scientific, today we are in communicative era of testing. The pursuit for professionalism is evidenced by a host of standards or codes of practice which have been developed, implemented and enforced by testing organizations from all over the world. Creating professionally sound assessment requires both art and science. Engaging in fair and meaningful assessments and producing relevant data about students’ achievement is an art. Designing a test, formulating item, and processing grade is a complete science. This review article reports a survey of test construction; its cyclic formulation process; the phases that it involves (deciding content, specifying objectives, prepå table of specification and fixing items); and the way it is evaluated (item difficulty and item discrimination). Teaching and testing are inseparable and in order to be professionally sound in judging the student’s performance, it is significant to know the norms, standards and ethics of test construction and evaluation.

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Shafaat Hussain, Sumaiya Sajid Test Construction and Evaluation: A Brief Review Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 6 June 2015

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