ii) Educational Evaluation
Unit I: Concept of Evaluation
1. Meaning and scope, standards for educational evaluation- content-related, construct-related and criterion- related measurement
2. New concept of evaluation,- objective-based; continuous; comprehensive evaluation
Unit II: Instructional Objectives
1. Instructional objectives as the basis of scientific evaluation, pupils’ performance; relationship between and among educational objectives, learning experiences and evaluation; objectives-based evaluation
2. Taxonomies of educational objectives of Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domines; subject- wise objectives; ‘create’ as an objectives
Unit III: Tools of Evaluation
1. Types of evaluation- formative and summative; product vs process; internal vs external, criterion-referenced vs norm-referenced
2. Purpose of evaluation- assessment; diagnosis; placement and prediction
3. Tools of evaluation- types of tools - tests, checklists, rating scales inventories- their nature and functions; achievement tests- oral, writers and practical; projects- individual and group; process- oriented tests
4. Characteristics of a good evaluation, tool- objective- based, comprehensiveness; discriminating power; reliability; validity; objectivity and practicability
Unit IV: Achievement Tests
1. Construction of Achievement test- design, blueprint, writing and arranging items, scoring key and marking scheme; question- wise analysis; significance of planning in realising the qualities of a good test
2. Construction of objective- based questions; different forms of questions; different forms of objective type questions ; their relative importance in evaluation
Unit V: Evaluation for Diagnosis and Remediation
1. Concept of educational diagnosis
2. Purpose of diagnostic test
3. Steps in the construction of a diagnostic test
4. Analysis of the results and identification of difficulties
5. Distinction between diagnostic test and achievement test
6. Remedial teaching- different techniques.
Unit VI: Statistics for Analysing Test Scores
1. Classification of data- need and purpose
2. Graphical- representation of data- Pie diagram, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Frequency curve- advantages and limitations
3. Measures of central tendency- mean, Median, Mode- their advantages
4. Measures of Dispersion- Range, Quartile deviation, Mean deviation, Standard deviation- their advantages.
5. Concept of correlation- Calculation of Coefficient of Correlation by
a) Rank difference method and
b) Product- moment method
6. Test of significance- significance of the difference between
a) Mean; and
b) percentages
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