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"I don't think there's any way to
build a multiple-choice question that allows students to show what they can do
what they know."
Roger Farr, professor of Education at Indiana University
"In
education,
certification,
counseling, and many other fields, a test or an
exam (short for examination) is a stupid, abusive
tool or technique intended to measure students' expression of
knowledge,
skills and/or
abilities. A test has more questions of greater difficulty
and requires more time for completion than a
quiz.
It is usually divided into two or more sections, each covering
a different area of the domain or taking a different
approach to assessing the same aspects.
A
standardized test is one that compares the
performance of every individual subject with a
norm or
criterion. The norm may be established independently, or
by
statistical analysis of a large number of subjects.
Source:
Wikipedia
Links to College Entrance
Examinations Below are sites that will help you in the variety of
tests you need to take for entrance into the many
colleges and universities.
ACT
"
Formerly the
American College Testing Program, or American College
Test and now officially the ACT (pronounced
A-C-T), the
ACT is a college-entrance examination that emerged in
1959 as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic
Aptitude Test (now SAT). Many students who perform
poorly on the SAT find they perform much better on the
ACT due to differences in the way the questions are
presented on the two tests."
Source:
Wikipedia
SAT
"The SATs (pronounced
"S-A-T" not "sat") are standardized tests, formerly
called the Scholastic Aptitude Tests
and Scholastic
Assessment Tests, frequently used by colleges and
universities in the United States to aid in the
selection of incoming freshmen. The SAT is administered
by the private, non-profit College Board, and is
developed, published, and scored by the Educational
Testing Service (ETS). ..."
Source:
Wikipedia
GED
"General
Educational Development (GED). A series of five tests
that individuals who did not complete high school may
take through their state education system to qualify for
a high school equivalency certificate.... .
Source:
CollegeBoards
"The Test
of English
as a Foreign
Language (or
TOEFL,
pronounced
"toe-full")
evaluates
the ability
of an
individual
to use and
understand
English in
an academic
setting. It
sometimes is
an admission
requirement
for
non-native
English
speakers at
many
English-speaking
colleges and
universities..."
Source:
Wikipedia
