An Approach to Diagnostic Testing in the Scottish O Grade Biology Course

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• Whilst it is easy to state that the drawing up of objectives is a prerequisite for successful diagnostic testing, there are fundamental problems about ensuring the validity of any such specification. One view would be that the objectives should be selected in order to reflect what can be reasonably expected of students of a specified age/ability in a particular subject area. Such a list of objectives would obviously be dependent on the teacher's views (and others) of what students can achieve in the time made available in the school curriculum. For a discussion of this and related matters refer to: Brown, S (1980) What do they know? A review of criterion‐referenced assessment. SED.
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• SCRIBE has been developed within the SED funded S1/S2 Science School‐Based Assessment using Item Banking project. The directors of the project are P.J. Barker (Moray House College) and S.H. Kellington (Glasgow College of Technology). The research officer is A.C. Mitchell (based at Glasgow College of Technology), from whom further details of the project can be obtained. The program was written by David McArthur, at Moray House College
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• Asterisks are printed when a student's score for the items of a particular objective fall below the accepted mastery score
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