Measurement And Evaluation In Education

Paper I: Measurement and Evaluation in Education

Objectives:

The Pupil-teacher will be able to:

v  Comprehend the concept and purpose of measurement and evaluation.

v  Understand the various techniques and tools of evaluation.

v  Know the various examination systems of India at different levels.

v  Compute and apply the statistical techniques in measurement and evaluation.

Unit I

• Measurement and Evaluation: concept, need, purpose and importance.
• Levels of Measurement.
• Relationship between measurement and evaluation
• Evaluation: Functions of evaluation and the basic principles of evaluation.

Unit II

• Techniques of Evaluation: Written, Oral, Practical, Grading System.
• Tools of evaluation: Observation, Socio-metric, Projective, Questionnaire, Interview, Tests, Inventories, Check-list, Rating Scales.
• Characteristics of a good Measuring Tool: Objectivity, Practicability, Reliability, Validity, Item analysis, Norms.

Unit III

• Approaches of Evaluation: Formative    and    Summative    Evaluation, Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation, Internal and External Evaluation, Criterion and Norm referenced Evaluation, CGPA, GGPA.
• Intelligence, Personality and Creativity: Concept and Measurement (study at least one tool of each)
• Examination systems in India at Elementary, Secondary and University level

            Unit IV

• Measures of Central Tendency:  Mean, Median and Mode (Meaning, Computation and its Uses).
• Measures of Dispersion:   Inter-quartile Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation (Meaning, Computation and its Uses).
• Measures of Position: Percentile, Decile.
  • Correlation: Concept, Uses and Methods of Computing Correlation Coefficient By Spearman’s Rank-Difference Method