Better Testing for Better Learning

Autor: John P. Murry
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: College Teaching. 38:148-152
ISSN: 1930-8299
8756-7555
Popis: One of the most odious tasks of teaching is testing. A great deal of time and energy goes into the writing and grading of exams. Most teachers will go to any extreme to avoid such tasks. They will adopt only text books that have an accompanying test bank or assign the chore of grading to graduate students. Disappointment in the results of test ing causes much of this disdain. Teach ers often wander the halls of academic institutions proclaiming their inno cence. "I do not know how they got this from what I taught." "I know I emphasized this point repeatedly, yet most of them missed it." These and other familiar refrains have their ori gins in confusion over the purpose and goal of testing. Although few would consciously ac knowledge it, most of us act as if test ing were an aspect of submarine war fare, that is, it should torpedo the stu dent. Most professors teach and test the way they were taught and tested. We rarely have the time, inclination, or awareness to explore alternative testing techniques. When one of us does have a revelation, he or she might share it with a few colleagues or write a short notice for a teaching newsletter. How
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