Evaluation of Educational Dimensions

Course Contents
Nature of Educational Assessment and Evaluation: Concepts of assessment and
evaluation. Uses and purposes of assessment. Types of assessment; Formative and
Summative, Criterion- referenced and Norm-referenced.
Assessment of abilities in the cognitive domain: Stating objectives: general and specific;
Classification of educational objectives in the cognitive domain: Bloom’s Taxonomy, and its
revision
Assessment Techniques of cognitive abilities: Instruments for measurement of
achievement in the cognitive domain; Free- Response type: Essay and Short answer tests;
Restricted–Response type: Matching, Alternative, MCQ; Structured Essay type.
Assessment Techniques of Affective characteristics: Construction and use of instruments
to measure affective characteristics: Check lists, Observation schedules, Interview
schedules, Rating scales, Attitude scales, and Personality inventories.
Assessment Techniques of Psycho motor characteristics: Assessment of psycho-motor
aspects of student behaviors; Performance Tests: Evaluation of the process and the
product.
Characteristics of Measurement/ Assessment instruments: Concepts of Reliability and
Validity of assessment tools; Methods of determining the reliability and validity of tests.
Recent trends in Assessment and Evaluation: Continuous assessment and In – course
assessment; School Based Assessment; Assessment of Assignments and Projects; Portfolios
Use of statistical procedures and processes for the interpretation of student
Performance: Depicting student’s performance using frequency distribution, ranks,
percentiles, and pictorial and graphical representations; Explaining the distribution of
performance scores by measures of central tendency and variance; Comparison of
performance using concepts of normal distribution and correlation; Interpretation