ED365 Assessing Pupil Performance

This course examines ways of monitoring pupils performance in schools. It looks at the advantages and the disadvantages of the different forms of assessment and helps students to identify appropriate methods for measuring a particular performance. Emphasis is also given to planning, devising and analyzing tests and exams. Students are introduced to the item analysis using difficulty and discriminative indexes as well as how to construct good clear questions. Using statistics to analyze and how to interpret and report results are also important components of this course.