Chapter 7: CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD TEST

Developing Classroom based tests:

Tests and other evaluation instruments serve a variety of uses in the school. For example, tests of achievement might be used for selection, placement, diagnosis, or certification of mastery; aptitude tests might be used for predicting success in future learning activities or occupations; and appraisals of personal- social development might be used to understand better pupils' learning problems or to evaluate the effects of a particular school program. Regardless of the type of instrument used or how the results are to be used, however, all of the measurements should possess certain characteristics. The most essential of these are validity, reliability, usability and objectivity.