Testing and essays show how well students are doing within the class. Though I think some students do not test well at all. I know for myself I did not test well and did not do so well in school.
"Good multiple-choice items are the most time-consuming kind of objective test items to write. Unfortunately, most multiple-choice items are also written at the knowledge level of the taxonomy of educational objectives" (Kubiszyn, 2010). I have had some test that when you were taking them and you were like who thought up these questions. I have had some where you are not fully sure the right answer but think you do.
"Although essay tests are relatively easy to construct, the items should not be constructed haphazardly; consult the table of speciļ¬cations, identify only the topics and objectives that can best be assessed by essays, and build items around those" (Kubiszyn, 2010). With one class I took the teacher did mostly essay questions for his tests. For some writing might not come easy for them so they might do poorly on an essay test.
Each test has some form and reason behind them. Even if a student does not do well on a test does not mean they do not know the information. Which is why there are many different type of tests that are given to students.
Kubiszyn, T. & Borich, G. (2010). Educational testing & measurement: Classroom application and practice (9th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
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