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Download full textWalker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2006
What are the purposes of exams? Would teachers give exams if they were not grading students? Exams provide information that should inform the instructional program, let the students know their strengths as well as areas for growth, and tell teachers what information their students know and what they still need to know. When determining how…
Descriptors: Tests, Test Items, Test Construction, Teacher Made Tests
Williams, Jane M. – 1986
Suggested accommodations for mainstreamed secondary learning disabled students on teacher made tests are presented. Suggestions are grouped into general; format; and test taking modifications (presentation, recording, and scoring). Among the many suggestions made are the following: watch readability of questions; assure test is clearly printed;…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Teacher Made Tests
Peer reviewedConderman, Greg; Koroghlanian, Carol – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article presents guidelines for writing better test items to evaluate student learning better. Recommendations are provided for writing true-false items (test only one idea in each item), multiple-choice items (include the bulk of information in the stem), and matching items (only use homogeneous lists). Examples are provided. (Contains 7…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Teacher Made Tests
Brown, William R. – 1988
The evaluation tools written by teachers are rarely valid or reliable. One teaching aid that can help in the creation of an effective evaluation instrument is called a test map. A test map is a systematic method to consider variables that are important in the construction of the format of a test. Five variables that are discussed in the test…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
Brown, Dean R.; And Others – 1983
The four chapters in this resource book provide general considerations for the development of teacher-made achievement tests in science for students with visual, hearing, and/or orthopedic impairments. Chapter 1 focuses on changes in classroom testing by considering the testing of handicapped students, norm-referenced versus criterion-referenced…
Descriptors: College Science, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Physical Disabilities
Talbot, Gilles L. – 1994
This paper offers college teachers guidelines for improving their teacher made tests. It notes that teachers may focus on how well students have learned course objectives while being unaware of how the testing process itself contributes to the results obtained. The paper reports the results of a test-taking workshop designed to improve college…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Control
