Open AccessEffective Test Administration in Schools: Principles and Good Practices for Test Administrators
Author(s) -
Aloysius Rukundo,
Justine Magambo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
african journal of teacher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-7822
DOI - 10.21083/ajote.v1i1.1589
Subject(s) - test (biology) , administration (probate law) , psychology , construct (python library) , achievement test , reliability (semiconductor) , construct validity , academic achievement , mathematics education , medical education , standardized test , medicine , political science , psychometrics , computer science , clinical psychology , paleontology , power (physics) , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , law , biology
To establish academic achievement in any public school, teachers have to construct, administer and score tests or examinations. For a valid and reliable assessment of academic achievement, the tests should yield similar and consistent results/grades for comparable groups of students. The validity and reliability of assessment are dependent on many factors among which are administrations of the measurement. This paper focuses on test administration principles and good practices in schools; highlighting principles and good test administration practices and concluding with a summary of the suggestions that, if followed, lead to successful test administration in a any given public school system.