HOW TEACHER MADE TEST IS IMPORTANT THAN STANDARDIZED TEST?

Test is an assessment which intends to measure students’ knowledge, skills, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics. A test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer or a confined area that require a test taker to physically perform a set of skills. While Standardized test refers to any form of a test that requires all students to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way and that is scored in a standard or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or group of students.

Teacher made tests this are test constructed by Teacher according to what they teach in the classroom. Teacher made test give teacher the availability of easy assessment if their learner understood.

Standardize tests are test which made by experts in the form of test that require all test takers to answer the same selection to questions from common bank of questions Example Form Two National Examinations which require all students Tanzanian to answer that examinations

Teacher made tests are more appropriate to the situation rather than the standardized test because of the following reasons.

Help teacher to understand goals and objective to be achieved. Through Teacher made Test it is easy to make the evaluation goals and objective if understood through the test which teacher constructing to the learner by looking on the attempted answer from the learners if it is correct.

Help to control over format, the teacher made test give teacher more options which style to be used to construct the questions either multiple choice, short answer, true and false while standardized test have one format to all students through control over format can help teacher to evaluate their learner which kind of questions have attempt good.

Integration to instruction teacher made test give Teacher the option of choose whether what to construct from the text book or provide another provide another alternative like experiment, fiction book to reach course content, Also through alternative method teacher will look student understand while mostly of standard text used the text book to construct the examinations

Help teacher to understand the progress of their learners through made test it give the feedback to teacher if their leaner understand or not,  because teacher can teach one topic and give the test according to what he taught while standardized comprise the different topic without knowing if have already covered or not.

It encourages memorization to the students. When a teacher announces a test to the students, then the students will be concentrating on studying hard targeting to the test they have been announced by teacher. Also during a test when a student trying to remind what he or she has studied before, so this makes long memory among learners. (Mwamwenda, 2004)

The teacher made test motivates learners in the sense that a teacher provides feedback to the students which absolutely may increase performance to students particularly to those who have done well because high performance motivates students. (Thongo, et al, 2008)

It evaluates skills and efficiency of the students. A teacher who constructs a test for their learners intend to evaluate the ability of his or her learners, this help teacher to immediately evaluate what learners have done in the given test.

Teacher made test helps a teacher to achieve the intended goals. Always teacher make his own goal to his student, hence the test will help him to see whether he has achieved or not after evaluating the students performance.

It helps teacher to design a customized test that matches the learning goals and contents of the class. The focus is at whole content or what covered in classroom in order to make and increases performance of students. (Bloman, at al, 2007)

Therefore, in assessing the goals and objectives whether are achieved, the Teachers can use the Teacher made Test because it carries the reality of the feedback from the learners rather than standardized test.

REFERENCES

Bloman G. and Maritus, P. (2007). Elementary Statistics. A step by step Approach (1^st ed.) MacGraw Hill. New York.

Thongo, J. et all (2008). Matering PTE Education. Oxford University press.

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