Assessment of learning in the cognitive domain (my part)

Assessment of Learning in the Cognitive

Domain

CHAPTER 3

Behaviors Measured and Assessed in the Cognitive Domain

Behaviors related to recognizing and remembering fact, concepts, and other important data on any topic or subject.

Knowledge Level

Behaviors associated with the clarification and articulation of the main idea of what students are learning

Comprehension Level

Behaviors that have something to do with problem solving and expression, which require students to apply what they have learned to other situations or cases in their lives.

Application Level

Behaviors that require students to think critically, such as looking for motives, assumptions, cause effect relationship, differences and similarities, hypotheses, and conclusion

Analysis Level

Behaviors that call for creative thinking, such as combining elements in new ways, planning original experiments, creating original solutions to a problem and building models

Synthesis Level

Behaviors that necessitate judging the value or worth of a person, or idea or giving opinion on an issue

Evaluation Level

Preparing for Assessment

Of Cognitive Learning

What Should Be Tested

Identification of the information, skills, and behaviors to be tested is the first important decision that a teacher has to take.

Knowledge of what shall be tested will enable a teacher to develop an appropriate test for the purpose.

What Should Be Tested

How to Gather Information

About What To Test

How to Gather InformationAbout What To Test

A teacher has to decide whether he should give a paper and pencil test or simply gather information through observation.

Should he decide to use a paper-and-pencil test, then he has to determine what test items to construct.

How Long The Test Should Be

How Long The Test Should Be

The answer to the aforementioned question depend on the following factors:

Age and attention span of the students;

And type of questions to be used

How Best To Prepare

Students For Testing

Teaching students for teaching, Airisian(1994) recommends the ff. measures:

(1) providing learners with good instruction

(2) reviewing students before testing (3) familiarizing students with question

formats (4) scheduling the test (5) providing students information

about the test

Source

Garc ia , Car l i to D . , ED.D. “Measur ing And Eva luat ing Learn ing Outcomes: A textbook un Assessment of learn ing 1 & 2” Mandaluyong C i ty : Books Atbp. Pub l ish ing Corp . , 2008