Question- What are some important characteristics of an effective diagnostic test/evaluation?

Ans.

Some important characteristics of an effective diagnostic test are :

(i) Diagnostic test is a specific type of test.
(ii) These are prepared by experts.
(iii) Such tests should be an integral part of the curriculum, emphasizing and clarifying the important objectives.
(iv) It must be based on experimental evidence of learning difficulties.
(v) It should reveal the mental processes of the learner sufficiently to detect point of error.
(vi) It should suggest or provide specific remedial procedures for each error detected.
(vii) It should be designed to cover a long sequence of learning systematically.
(viii) It should reveal pupil's progress in objective terms.
(ix) It should be designed to check faulty learning.
(x) It should be designed to check forgetting by constant review of difficult elements.

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