Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

Effect of Structured Question Paper on Teachers Evaluation – A Comparative Study

Dr Varsha Shenoy, Dr Sangeetha S

Abstract :

 

a) Background: Written assessment methods, especially long and short essay questions are the most commonly used assessment tools for cognitive domain. Even though very commonly used, essay questions are considered to be poor in reliability of grading. Different examiners may vary in their grading of the same answers (inter–rater reliability) and the same examiner can vary significantly in his/her grading (intra–rater reliability) depending on many factors. Structured essay questions are presumed to improve the reliability of evaluation. But when previous university question papers were analysed for the pattern of questions, it was found that majority of the question papers were not having structured questions. Hence it was decided to conduct this study.

b) Materials and methods: Anatomy test was conducted for I MBBS students with 2 question papers: Paper I (Unstructured question paper) and Paper II (structured question paper). 30 answer scripts each of Paper I & II were collected randomly and coded. All the 60 answer scripts (Paper I –30 scripts and Paper II–30 scripts) were evaluated by 3 teaching faculty twice at an interval of one week. Marks were tabulated analysed for intra–rater and inter–rater variability for structured and unstructured question papers using student t test.

c) Results: There was a significant difference in both inter–rater and intra–rater scoring in Paper I compared to Paper II.

d) Conclusions: Structuring of essay questions will help to improve inter and intra–rater reliability of its grading.

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

Cite This Article:

Dr Varsha Shenoy, Dr Sangeetha S, Effect of Structured Question Paper on Teachers Evaluation – A Comparative Study, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018

Number of Downloads : 262

References :