ED 503 E01 Fall 2021-2022 Chapter 14 Test.

Instructions

Chapter 14 addresses how to prepare your students to be assessed and to use students' results to improve your assessment (even instructions.) To prepare students for an upcoming assessment, give them the information and skills they need to perform their best. The chapter discuses the taxonomy of testwiseness skills and nature of test anxiety. The teacher should know there are at least (identify) three types of test-anxious student: 1) those who lack good study skills, 2) those who have good grasp of he material and good study skills but have fears of failure, and 3) those who believe the have good study habits but do not. Also, how to help test-anxious students is presented. The chapter discuses several concepts such as effects of assembly and administration of assessments on the validity of the scores, use of item analysis results to improve the quality of true-false, matching, and multiple-choice items, etc.

An encouragement: Read the Chapter 14 thoroughly to prepare well as to use students' assessment results to improve your instruction. Remember, assessment(s) drives instruction. Should you have any question, contact the lecturer immediately via cahan@mvsu.edu or 662-254-3614.