Sunday, December 23, 2007

Writing Essay Items

  • Convey to students a clear idea regarding the extensiveness of the response desired

  • Construct items so that the student’s task is explicitly described

  • Do not employ optional items

  • Provide students with an approximate time to be expended on each item as well as each item’s value

  • Precursively judge an item’s quality by composing, mentally or in writing, a possible response


Source:
Popham, W. James (2002). Classroom assessment: What teachers need to know (3rd ed.). MA: Allyn & Bacon

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