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Test Writing Presented by: Mike Zellmer Franklin Summer Academy June 16 - June 19, 2009 Franklin Summer Academy June 16 - June 19, 2009

Learning Targets 1.Determine the appropriate combination of assessments to use throughout your project. 2.Know how to use a matching matrix to select appropriate assessments for learning targets. 3.Understand concepts and characteristics of high- quality test questions. 4.Know how to use a test planning tool as a guide to creating balanced tests that reflect the weighting in the teaching of the unit or part of the unit.

In Addition......understand the features and benefits of using an on-line tool for the construction and scoring of quizzes and tests.

Assessment Timeline/Plan

Assessment Plan - Template Pre-Assessment Formative Assessments Growth Assessments Final Product Assessments

Assessment Plan - Template Pre-Assessment Formative Assessments Growth Assessments Final Product Assessments

Teacher-Made Test: Definition “Simply defined, a teacher-made test is an evaluation tool designed by a teacher for his/her students that can be used at any point during a unit of study. Often the most instructionally relevant tests are those created by a teacher for a specific group of students to emphasize information important to the concepts taught” (Childs,1989).

Test Writing - Steps 1. Create an ASSESSMENT PLAN

Test-Writing - Steps 2. Determine the LEARNING TARGETS

Test-Writing - Steps 3. Match the type of test to the type of learning target.

Original Terms New Terms Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge Creating Evaluating Analyzing Applying Understanding Remembering (Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

Creating Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging Analysing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding Applying Using information in another familiar situation Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining Remembering Recalling information Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

Test-Writing - Steps 4. Create a Test Plan.

Test-Writing - Steps 5. Write/use High- Quality Questions.

5. High-Quality Test Questions - Multiple Choice Comb Handouts for Multiple Choice Comments Derek Cheung paper (on screen; in wiki) BYU Paper (on screen; in wiki)

5. High-Quality Test Questions - Other Selected Response True-False Matching Short Answer Fill-ins Other

5. High-Quality Test Questions - Essay Essay (Extended Written Response)

Test-Writing - Steps 6. Check for Test Quality.

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