Preparation of Blue Print of Achievement Test Or Construction of Achievement Test

 Preparation of Blue Print of Achievement Test Or Construction of Achievement Test

Preparation of Blue Print of achievement test is very important for examination in English because it consists of objective type of questions indicating the number of items in each cell. It is prepared in accordance with objectives of teachings, subject-matter in curriculum and types of questions by determining quantitative weightage and organizing the questions in three dimensional chart. This is known as blue print of test. While constructing the achievement test, based on blue print, the following things should be kept in mind

(i) Individual differences.

(ii) Questions should be balanced.

(iii) Results should be same.

(iv) Language in the scoring key should be easy.

(v) Maximum children should be able to attempt it.

Steps in Preparation of Blue Print

Step-1-Instructional Objectives: The objective is to test the knowledge, understanding, application and skill of the students. In languages, the major objectives are categorized as knowledge, comprehension and expression.

Step-2-Design: It specifies weightages to:

(a) Weightage of Teaching Objectives: Generally, test should be for the fulfillment of all objectives of teaching. So prior to the preparation of the test all the required weightage on objectives of teachings should be determined:

(b) Weightage to Content Units: While preparing blue print of achievement test, it is necessary to cover, entire subject-matter so it becomes essential to determine weightage, keeping in view the extension of different subject-matter, and the importance pertaining to the subject-matter. If the topics in subject-matter are large in number, then it will be convenient to classify the topics into units.

Weightage to content units

(c) Weightage to the Different Forms of Questions: After determining marks on objectives and content unit, it is essential to pay attention on the types of questions for test. So it should also be determined as to how many of the questions of each type (essay type/short answer objectives) are to be prescribed and what weightage should be laid on them.

(d) Weightage to Difficulty Level: It should also be noted that the level of the questions should neither be very difficult nor very easy. The questions level should grow from easy to difficult gradually. They should be divided into three levels. Easy questions should be at first, average questions in middle and difficult questions in the last. According to difficulty level, weightage can be determined.

Step-III-Blue Print: A blue print is a distribution of the weightage that various aspects of English should have in a test specially constructed for it. It is a pre-requisite at the planning stage. It helps to guide a teacher in constructing a test. It indicates the weightage to be given to various skills and the types of test.

Blue Print of English I paper of class X for the Examination of Board of Secondary Education