| Seq #73 | Thursday, 9 March 2006 | |||||||
| 2:00 PM-5:00 PM Swan Hotel Mockingbird 1, Workshop | ||||||||
| [JOINT] Creating Effective Classroom Tests | ||||||||
Sponsored by: ADEA | ||||||||
| Description: All educators involved with student learning must have the ability to construct high-quality tests. To that end, this workshop provides a method to design educational tests. The program concentrates on student outcomes rather than simply process. All presented information is based on “best practice” methodology, using research-based evidence to support the guidelines. We cover different types of exams and provide an atmosphere where attendees will feel free to share their views and ask questions. The first segment, “Specifying What a Test Measures,” focuses on the purpose of classroom testing, general issues involved in developing classroom tests, different types of learning domains, and specific steps one follows when planning classroom tests. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding the cognitive domain, achieving congruence of testing with lecture, and identifying appropriate content domains for a test. The second segment, “Writing Selected Response Tests,” begins by introducing rules and suggestions for selected response items and then focuses on three specific types: (1) binary (true/false), (2) matching, and (3) multiple choice—stand alone and stimulus response types. We conduct an interactive session in which attendees are asked to write and present questions that measure the learning objective they wrote in the first segment. The third segment, “Writing Constructed Response Tests,” begins with a review of general considerations, guidelines, and suggestions for constructed test items. Next, we focus on short answer and essay-type of exams, providing guidelines and suggestions for writing “good” items. We conclude the segment with an exercise in which attendees write a constructed response question that measures their learning objective written under the first segment | ||||||||
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