AN ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF EXISTING TEST ITEMS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN SELECT AFFILIATED COLLEGES IN TELANGANA

English Language Teaching

Assessment is an indispensable part of teaching-learning process. Testing is an integral part of teaching because it gives information about the improvement and growth of a student. Students’ learning can be measured by different procedures. Despite a significant increase in test procedures, numerous issues surrounding testing remain unresolved. Under the modern changeable conditions of the society today, students do not require readily available information instead they need the best possible methods to comprehend and apply their knowledge. Bloom’s taxonomy in this regard is probably the most commonly used cognitive process models. It is a classification system that highlights the processes starting from remembering knowledge to evaluating knowledge. In the field of education, teachers of present day need to address issues related to forming and developing questions that are rightly mapped against the effective learning objectives. The questions must be designed in such a way that they must test the analytical and cognitive skills of students. Firstly, the aim of this study is to find out to what extent Bloom’s taxonomy is being implemented in designing the question paper. The paper further examines whether the questions involved in assessing the students’ performance are based on testing their lower order thinking or higher order thinking skills or both. In addition to this, the paper also aims in analyzing the final question papers of two Universities and map the test items against Blooms Taxonomy and observe if the questions test the sub skills of reading and writing.

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