Gain a critical understanding of issues in assessment and evaluation. 🤔
Differentiate between various types of assessment. 📊
Use a wide range of assessment tools. 🛠️
Select and construct various types of assessment tools appropriately. ✅
Evolve realistic, comprehensive, and dynamic assessment. 📈
(B) Syllabus
SECTION – A
Assessment and Evaluation: meaning of assessment and evaluation, purpose; diagnostic, formative, and summative evaluation. 📝
Tools of assessment: assignments, projects, tests: objective and essay type - their merits and limitations, kinds of test items, oral testing. 🛠️
Continuous and comprehensive evaluation: concept, significance, merits, and limitations. 🔄
SECTION – B
Statistical tools and techniques: percentage, percentile rank, graphical presentation of performance, frequency distribution, central tendency measures - mean, median, and mode; normal distribution and standard scores. 📊
Examination Reforms: flexibility, quality and range of questions, school-based credit, alternative modes of examination. 🔄
Activities (Any one of the following)
Prepare a report on the implementation of CCE at the school level. 🏫
Construction of an achievement test in any school subject at elementary/secondary. 📝
Critical appraisal of learning outcomes – scholastic and co-scholastic. 🧐
(C) Books Recommended
Gregory, R.J. (2014). Psychological Testing: History, Principles and Applications (6th Edition). New Delhi: Pearson Publications. 📘
Newman, F.M. (1996). Authentic achievement: Restructuring schools for intellectual quality. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 📗
Nitko, A.J. (2001). Educational assessment of students (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 📕
Norris N. (1990). Understanding Educational Evaluation, Kogan Page Ltd. 📘
Rao, Manjula (1998). Training material on continuous and comprehensive evaluation (monograph) Mysore: Regional Institute of Education (NCERT). 📗
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