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Test anxiety
Tests categorize and label students.
Tests damage students’ self-concepts. Focus on
effort to
explain failures. Do not over-generalize from
scores.
Why
Tests?
1. To gather information:
Achievement of learners
Selection among competitors
Comparison for levels/ranking
Examination/Evaluation on teaching methods
Identification of problem areas
Measurement Measurement
(non-test)
(test)
Evaluation
Evaluation, Measurement &
Test
Not all measures are tests, not all tests
are evaluative, and not all evaluation
involves either measurement or tests.