Exam Description
The range of questions that are fill in the blank on the exam paper
What is questions 1-8
The domain encompassed around the fill in the blanks.
What is cognitive (remembering and understanding stage)
Advantages of true or false in the exam
It was short, only 6 items, so it saved time for the students doing and the teacher scoring .All the items were stated positively so it reduced confusion of the students.
Weaknesses of the fill in the blank seen for the traditional assessment
What is students may get confused since a variety of options may go for one item.
The definition for alternative assessment
What is an assessment used to determine what students can and cannot do in contrast to what they know or do not know
The range of questions for true or false items
What is questions 17-22
The domains encompassed around the matching items
What is cognitive and psycho motor
Advantages of fill in the blank
What is the options were given and the options were greater than the blanks so it mitigated the act of guessing
The disadvantage of true or false
What is the instruction was to write T if true and F is false but if poor penmanship is an issue the student may be at disadvantage. All of the 6 questions were related to different topics so even if the student got all correct or incorrect it will not show much to if the child had actually learnt.
The activities that are apart of the alternative assessment
What is students are required to create an "Information Booth" based on a selected topic.
The range of questions for Matching
What is questions 9-13
The domains encompassed around multiple choice
What is cognitive and affective
Advantage of matching
What is the number of questions did not exceed ten( 4 questions) so it did not take a lot of time for the students to complete them and the questions were kept on the same page so it would not confuse the students.
Disadvantage of matching
What is the options were the same amount as the premise so that made it too easy to answer.
The weaknesses of the rubric of the alternative assessment
What is type of rubric cannot be easily identified because of poor representation, No guide to the scores were given, some of the categories were not described
The range of questions that were multiple choice
What is questions 14-16
The domains encompassed around supply response
What is cognitive and affective
Advantages of supplied response
What is Students are given the opportunity to recall, think and be creative with response.
Disadvantage of supply response
What is students will try to guess if they do not know.
A strength of this alternative assessment
What is students can become creative, discovery learning can take place and collaborative skills may improve due to group work
The range of question for supply response
What is questions 23-32
The domains encompassed around the true or false items
What is cognitive
Advantage of multiple choice
What is there was a diagram for which the multiple choice question and answers related to so students' senses were actually engaged.
Disadvantage of multiple choice
What is the options were limited and repeated hence students could easily guess
A recommendation for the current alternative assessment
What is use an analytic rubric