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What is the advantage of setting short answer questions in test papers?
In multiple choice questions, how many alternatives do students have to choose from?
What is a key drawback of essay type questions?
Matching type questions require students to match words from which groups?
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What is the major role of short answer type tests in English evaluation?
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Why are essay type questions particularly useful in evaluating students?
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What advantage do short answer questions have over essay type questions?
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What is the main drawback of matching type questions?
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'Why do you love your nation?' is an example of what type of question?
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Study Notes
Role of Examinations
- Examinations determine the success or failure of a student at the end of the year, playing a greater role than tests.
Designing Good Questions
- To construct a valid question paper, the following steps are necessary:
- Listing the major objectives
- Defining each objective
- Writing the table of specifications or blueprint
- Checklist
- A blueprint is necessary to construct a valid question paper with appropriate weightage, testing various skills of the students.
Characteristics of a Good Test
- A good test synchronizes evaluation with the objectives of teaching English.
- It aims to serve as a yardstick to find out whether the aims have been realized or not.
- It should give various emphases to skills.
- A good test should be highly reliable, yielding essentially the same or consistent score when administered to the same students at multiple times.
- It should be valid, measuring what it is supposed to measure and predicting some criterion.
- A good test should cater for weak, average, and bright students, with a fair mixture of easy, average, and difficult questions.
- It should have a standard procedure in time limit, scoring sheet, and trained tester.
- The question paper should be neither too long nor too short, with clear instructions, definite language, and specified answer lengths.
- The questions should aim to test the real mastery of structures and vocabulary items, rather than testing knowledge of memorized answers.
- A good test must have norms for proper interpretation of the scores.
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Learn about the steps involved in designing a valid question paper to evaluate students' performance, including listing objectives, defining objectives, and creating a blueprint for the test.
