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EDU 3101: Educational Evaluation and Testing

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Mode of Delivery:

  • Online
  • Blended mode: mixed online and face-to -face
  • Face-to-Face


1. Rationale

Evaluation is an integral part of education. It affects the way students study, their motivation, performance and their aspirations. At school levels, it enables inspectors and officials from the Ministry assess the quality of education offered in a specific school, region or throughout the country. At curriculum level, it gives us an idea of whether the curriculum we have set up – means – is leading us to our educational goals/objectives – ends. For you as a teacher, this module will give an idea of the importance of evaluation in education. It would also help you come up with appropriate means of measuring and evaluating students.

2. Prerequisite or knowledge

The prerequisites for this module are General Psychology, Educational Psychology and Learning Psychology.

3. General objectives

At the end of this course, students are expected to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of basic principles of educational evaluation
  • And testing;
  • Construct, analyze and improve assessments that adequately appraise general or specific instructional objectives;
  • Critique and interpret standardized test results;
  • Integrate assessment results to evaluate student performance;
  • Interpret assessment findings for students, parents and community;
  • Construct and interpret tests.


4. Time

The total time required to complete this module is 120 hours. The time is broken down as follows:

Unit 1: 25 hours
Unit 2: 25 hours
Unit 3: 25 hours
Unit 4: 25 hours
Unit 5: 20 hours

5. Materials

Computer with internet connection and basic operating and application software.