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CONTENTS

Unit 1: Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation:
Introduction to Assessment – Languages of Assessment – Different forms of
Assessment – Preparative Assessment – Formative Assessment – Diagnostic
Assessment - Summative Evaluation – Questioning in formative assessment.

Unit 2: Two-Dimensional Learn – Assess Approach:
Determine the objectives of the assessment – Learning
Question – Instruction Question – Assessment Question – Alignment Question - Mapping Two-
dimensional approach of preparing the Instructional objectives with complexity of questions – Factual
Questions – Conceptual Questions – Procedural knowledge Questions – Meta - Cognitive Questions.
Unit 3: Assessment procedures:
Types of Assessment – Direct Assessment strategies – Indirect Assessment strategies – Maximum
performance – Typical performance – Construction of Achievement Test -Types of questions items –
Supply type – Selection type – Numerica l problem- solving methods – Connect the item type with
context.

Unit 4: Design of Question Paper:
Introduction to Table of Specifications (TOS) – Modules vs Levels in the TOS – Scheme of Evaluation
in TOS – Factors to be considered for preparing TOS.
Unit 5: Performance Assessment:
Overview of Performance Assessment- Check list – Rating scale - Rubrics – Need for the rubrics
– Holistic rubric – Analytic rubric – preparation of Criteria and descriptors for Rubrics – Consolidation
of rubric values – B.Tech / M.Tech / PhD thesis Evaluation – Portfolios.

Unit 6: Establish Characteristics of Assessment:
Characteristics of evaluation tool – Validation of the tool - Reliability – Validity vs Reliability – Logical
and statistical validity – Usability – Discrimination factors in the Evaluation tool – Interpretation of Test
score – Estimate Reliability.
Unit 7: Item Analysis:
Introduction to item Analysis – Difficulty index – Discrimination Index – Distractor analysis - Norm
referenced interpretation – Criterion Referenced Interpretation.

Unit 8: Software tools for Assessment:
Technology aid for Assessment - Benefits of using digital tools for assessment - FOSS tools for
preparative assessment, formative assessment and Evaluation – Performance assessment tool.

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