Testing : A critical part of good teaching

Authors

Khedair S. Al-Khedair

Publication Date

1994-01-01

Abstract

Teachers and academics are always involved in testing. This function takes a great portion of their time either for making a test or testing students for measuring their achievement. Tests always involve a great deal of prepararing . administering. correcting and assigning grades. The notion of testing has always been a fact of life to academia since testing measures and evaluates students' learning. Tests are constructed in different formats to meet different functions. There are some general ability tests such as the Stanford Binet Test and Achievement Tests which are generally given after a period of teaching and administered by teachers to measure how much students have learned from the classroom instruction. There are also syllabus-based and non-syllabus-based performance tests. The distinction between the two is useful, because it enables us to capture the essence of the difference between achievement tests and general performance tests (Dunseath. 1981). The purpose of the achievement test is to find out how much of a syllabus or part of a syllabus a student has learned and understood. In this sense, the achievement test is an extension of the mastery test, which is used to test control of single items or patterns.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.24.1.2

First Page

10

Last Page

15

Recommended Citation

Al-Khedair, Khedair S. (1994) "Testing : A critical part of good teaching," PASAA: Vol. 24: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.24.1.2
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol24/iss1/2