Assessment of Learning in the Cognitive Domain CHAPTER 3
May 27, 2015
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