Thoughts on Testing: Multiple Choice and Essay Style

Blog Week 3: Test and Essay Questions 

Teachers need to make sure the ideas and teaching style is being absorbed by their students. So, they need to come up with a way to test and validate the unit in which they are learning and that is through testing, projects, worksheets, and even oral examination. Teachers will prepare quizzes, tests, and assessments to offer feedback to themselves and their students. It will allow them to know what is working and what is not. Where improvement might be needed or what skills need further work. 

 Since, this unit and learning outcome is based towards the first grade, limited responses are demanded of students, but the thought process and the results is what is graded. Students are not graded on grammar, punctuation, or spelling. There will be visuals around the room to help students recall what was said.

Preparing ways to test the learning outcomes is an important part of validating the overall success of information retention in students. Teachers need to make sure they use proper sources, ideas, and testing to verify the skills learned and maintained by the curriculum. By using a restrictive response essay question will allow students to recall specific information and organize it into proper manner without requiring them to go into vast detail (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2013).

Offering multiple choices and listing items will give the student a variety of options in taking the test. Not all test questions will be an essay form, but an offer of a using their best guess if they are not sure. Multiple-choice questions can be challenging for younger students but they still can be used on tests and they help give an insight on behavior at the higher levels of the taxonomy of educational objectives (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2013).

Finally another way to test understanding is through picture recognition in younger students. They can match the correct picture to the correct representation of the item. Making sure directions are easy to follow and understandable will help the testing go smoothly (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2013).

Reference

Kubiszyn, T., & Borich, G. D. (2013). Educational testing & measurement: Classroom application and practice (10^th ed.).  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.