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Friday, April 1, 2011
Teacher made test...
I have learned so much this semester about creating test. I now understand why we should have a good mix or a variety of at least three different types of questions included in a test. In the past I primarily gave multiple choice test to prepare my students for the state board exam. But I now see how placing a variety of test questions in one test will help meet the needs of all of my students. I really like the idea of saving a free/response short answer or essay question until the end of the test after the student has had time to warm up during the evaluation. I am also pleased to learn about modified true and false questions, and fill-in-the-blank assessments. In addition, by using all capital letters to identify responses will be helpful to clarify answers. I have acquired a lot of valuable information which I look forward to using in generating future test.
Angie, I share some of your comments. I also learned that it is a good ideal to have 3 different types of questions and modifing true and false questions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about learning alot this semester. I never thought about having different types of questions either. I can see why that would be important due to different types of learners. I have heard students in the past say " I hate true/false" or " I love matching". I guess this way we do not cater to one type of learner or another. I have always used scantron due to the number of test that I have to grade, but I guess this is not really fair to those students that benefit from the modified true/false or the one's that like short answer. I will use more variety as well ;)
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