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A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING POLICY FOR
TECHNICAL TEACHERS

Module 6:Student Assessment and Evaluation

RATIONALE

Student Assessment and Evaluation is an online
SWAYAM course specially designed and developed for
the AICTE Technical Teacher Training Module. The
main theme this MOOC is that the assessmen t of
learning plays an important role in the instructional
process and that its effectiveness depends heavily on
the ability of teachers to construct and select tests and
assessments procedures that provide valid measures of
learning outcomes. This course is structured to provide
interactive learning experience to the faculty members and
also to develop an understanding of how to assess the students
in-terms diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. The
assessment would provide 360- degree feedback of the student in
connection to quantitative as well as qualitative performance. The assessment
practices must give the clarity between learning versus scoring. Since, assessment gives the
feedback to the faculty members about their instructional strategies,it helps to plan and improve the
Instructional strategies scientifically. So, this course helps to the faculty member to gather information
about the impact of instructional strategies and how well the student learned subject. Further,
assessment and evaluation provide pathway to improve the institution as whole.

MODULE OUTCOME

After completing the learning tasks in this module, the learners will be able to:
To define the functional role of assessment and evaluation in an educational institution.

To explain the complexity of the content and ability need to be developed among the students.
To differentiate convergent and divergent questioning in the assessment practices.

To differentiate the Direct and Indirect assessment strategies and select appropriate method.

To design a Table of Specification (ToS) for the preparation of the question paper.
To design a question paper based on the table of specification.

To establish the characteristics of the assessment such as validity and reliability.
To assess the performance of the student using rubrics.

To perform item analysis of the assessment tool.

To interpret the assessment score with respect to difficulty index and discrimination index.

To integrate different technology tools for class room assessment and summative
examinations.

National Initiative for New Technical Teachers Training