Assessment and Evaluation: Course Outline

1. Introduction

• Concept, nature and scope of assessment &evaluation.
• Need and role of evaluation
• Modern international trends in assessment and evaluation.
• Assessment and Evaluation at higher education level.
• Assessment of Behavioral Outcomes and Behavior modification
• Participants’ views and reflections.

2. Assessment of knowledge & Behavior

• Classroom assessment techniques
• Types of assessment
• Behavioral Outcome based assessment (values, devalues, character etc)
• Theories and models of evaluation in education.
• Evaluation models and their implementation

3. Integration of objectives with assessment and evaluation

• Objectives and educational outcomes
• Taxonomy of objectives
• Preparing a table of specification
• Practical consideration in planning a test
• Principles of constructing good test items
• Qualities of a good test (Validity and reliability)
• Item Analysis

4. Tools and Methods of assessment

• Objective methods
• Achievement tests
• Aptitude tests
• Intelligence tests
• Personality inventories
• Subjective methods
• Rating scales
• Project methods
• Self reporting techniques
• Anecdotal record
• Autobiography techniques
• Interview
• Questionnaires
• Socio metric techniques
• E-techniques

5. Assessment & evaluation in Islam

• Islamic concept and nature of evaluation
• Evaluation as a practical Muslim
• Internal and external evaluation
• Self-evaluation and accountability
• Guidance for life Here after
• Philosophical consideration of evaluation in Islam

6. Students Evaluation & Statistics used in assessment & evaluation

• Understanding the assessment data
• Criterion referenced and norm-referenced interpretations
• Frequency Distribution
• Measures of central tendency
• Concept of Normal curve and t-score

7. Evaluation -------- New Trends

• Evaluation of Assignment
• Computer based evaluation (E-evaluation)
• Evaluation of Project, Seminar and Presentations.

8. Evaluation and Record keeping  

• Marking student work promptly and inform students about the results.
• Recording activities and progress in an orderly way and inform relevant people.
• Evaluation of the progress of students using various methods.
• Evaluation of the progress using national criteria.
• Evaluation of morals and values