Achievement test Record

ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Page 1 Preliminary Details

Name of  teacher  :  Jayanthy R Raj

Name of school   :  St.Mary’s CGHSS Ernakulam

Standard              :   VIII

Division              :    B

Subject               : ENGLISH

Duration             :   45 minutes

Maximum Mark:   20

Page 2      Content and Curricular / Learning Objectives

The learner:

1.      Prose Comprehension

a)      reads and understands the passage

b)      identifies the theme of the passage

c)      writes the appropriate answers in simple English

2.      Poem Comprehension

a) Reads and comprehends poems.

b) Reads and grasps the theme of poems.

c)Reads and appreciates poems.

d) Reads and identifies the poetic craft

3.      Textual Questions

a) Reads and comprehends the theme and the features of characters in a story.

 b)Reads and appreciates a story/passage and writes responses.

c) Reads a story/passage and constructs various forms of discourses such as dialogues, reports, diary, posters, placards, slogans etc...

d)  Reads unfamiliar passages comprehends them and guesses the meaning of unfamiliar words and constructs dialogues/reports etc.

 e)  Reads familiar passages and comprehends them.

f) Writes events in a story/passage in logical sequence using suitable cohesive devices.

g)  Writes essays and articles on various themes in one's own sentences.

h)  Writes one's own opinions and justifications.

4.      Discourse Writing

a)  Writes letters appropriate to different communicative situations.

b) Attempts writing stories of one's own.

c) Prepares notices to communicate the message/ information.

d)  Reads and comprehends the data/information given by decoding the information.

e)  Uses proper cohesive devices for writing.

f) Writes profile based on the given details.

g)  Writes one's own responses appropriately in various contexts.

h)  Writes news headlines, captions, slogans etc. based on given contexts.

5.      Language / Grammatical items

a) Uses appropriate language functions for effective communication using questions, question tags, conditionals etc.

b) Reports what some one said.

c) Guesses meaning of words and identifies antonyms and synonyms in appropriate contexts.

d)  Improves accuracy in communication by using prepositions, articles and linkers.

e) Edits a passage by identifying various types of errors.

f)  Reads and comprehends simple stories and narrates events in proper sequence.

g)  Uses appropriate vocabulary for effective communication.

Page 3      Weightage to Content and Curricular Objectives

Sl No.	Content	Curricular Objectives	No. Of questions	Score	Percentage
1	Prose comprehension	Ia,   Ic	3(3)	4	20
2	Poem comprehension	2a,2a,2a,2b	4(1)	4	20
3	Textual Questions	3b,3b,3a,3a	4(1)	4	20
4	Discourse Writing	4a	5(1)	5	25
5	Language/ Grammatical items	5a	6(1/2)	3	15
Total				20	100

Page 4       Weightage to Form of Questions

Sl. No.	Form of Questions	Number of Questions	Score	Percentage
1	Short  Answers	10	12	60
2	Very short answer	6	3	15
3	Long Answer	1	5	25
TOTAL				100

Page 5       Weightage to Difficulty Level

Sl No.	Difficulty Level	Number of Questions	Score	Percentage
1	Easy	3	3	15
2	Average	14	12	60
3	Difficult	1	5	25
TOTAL				100

Page 6        Blue Print

Blue Print
Sl. No.	Content	Curricular Objectives	Form of Questions			Total
			V.S.A	S.A	L.A
1	Prose comprehension	1a,1b,1c
2	Poem comprehension
3	Textual Questions
4	Discourse Writing
5	Language/ Grammatical items
Total						100

Page 7 Question wise Analysis

Sl.No	Content	Curricular Objective	Form of Question	Difficulty Level	Score	Time
1	Prose comprehension	1a,1b.1c	S.A	Easy	1(1)	1 mt
2	Prose comprehension	1a,1b.1c	S.A	Average	1(1)	1 mt
3	Prose comprehension	1a,1b.1c	S.A	Average	1(1)	1 mt
4	Prose comprehension	1a,1b.1c	S.A	Difficult	1(1)	1 mt

Page 8 Sample Question Paper

Page 9           Scoring Key and Marking Scheme

Sl.No	Value points	Score	Total Score
Prose comprehension
1
2
3
4
Poem Comprehension
5
6
7
8

Page 9         Achievement Test Scores

Sl.No.	Name of the pupil	Marks
		20	5( C.C.E)
1	Anil Kumar R	19	4
2	Arun Mathew	7	3
3	Adithya  R Gopal	19	5
4	Anvar P	18	4
5	Midhun  Lal	10	3
6	Anila V	16	3
7	Archana C	17	3
8	Aleena S	8	2
9	Renu S	15	3
10	Keerthana M	16	4
11	Meera Devi R	9	2
12	Veena Reghu	5	2

Page 10        Sample answer sheets of the pupils (one or two)

STATISTICAL ANAYSIS OF DATA       

Page1  Raw Data

The marks of the students secured in the achievement test is known as the raw scores or crude scores.

The raw scores are the following:5,7,8,9,10,15,16,16, 17,18,19,19,

 The raw scores are classified in the form of a frequency table  for statistical analysis . Frequency distribution  is the organisation of data and grouping of scores in to classes or categories.

The frequency distribution table

Scores	Tally mark	Frequencies
1-5	1	1
6-10	1,1,1,1	4
11-15	1,1,	2
16-20	1,1,1,1,1,	5
N=12

Page1 

Measures of central Tendency

Measures of central tendency deal with the types of averages of a series of scores. The most widely used  measures of central tendency are the mean, the median and the mode. They serve two purposes. First they throw light on the performance of the group as a whole. Secondly they are a means to compare the performances of two or more groups.

Arithmetic Mean

Mean is a commonly used average.It is obtained by summing up the values of items in a series and dividing the sum by the number of items.

When the scores are ungrouped the mean is computed by dividing the sum of the scores by the total number of scores. When the scores are classified in to a frequency table the Mean =∑fx /∑f     where x is the class interval, f is the corresponding frequency and N is the total number of scores.

(Calculation of  Arithmetic Mean)

Median

Median is the middle most score of a distribution. It is a positional average. Median is the value of that item which occupies the central position , when the items arranged in the ascending or descending order of their magnitude.

The median of ungrouped data can be calculated by ranking them usually in the ascending order. When there are N scores , the rank of the median will be  N/2 .

The class in which the N/2 observations fall is the median class. If l is the lower limit of the median class, and  i  is the class interval length and f the frequency of the median class, and m is the cumulative frequency up to the median class.

The Median=l+N/2-m/f*i

(Calculation of  Median)

Mode

Mode is the value of an item which occurs more frequently than all other items. It is the value of that item which is more prominent than others.When data is ungrouped the mode is the most repeated score.It is called ‘rude’mode.When scores are grouped, the rude mode is the midpoint of the interval in which the greatest frequency occurs.

(Calculation of  Mode)

Measures of Dispersion

The measures of dispersion means the measures of variability of the scores around their central tendency. Range, mean deviation, quartile deviation, and standard deviation are the important measures of dispersion.

Standard Deviation (SD)

SD is defined as the square root of the mean of squares of deviations from the mean. In order to calculate SD, deviation of separate scores from the mean (d=x-m) are calculated. The sum of the squares (∑d²  )is divided by the total number of scores  and  the square root of it gives the SD of the scores.

SD=√d²  /N

(Calculation of  SD)

Graphical Representation of Classified Data

Statistical data are represented diagrammatically for better clarity and understanding and  for quick and easy  reference

Pie Diagram.

It is a useful form of diagram to represent a group divided into a number of parts which are to be compared.

(Graph)

Histogram

A histogram is a two dimensional graph. The two variables are the class intervals and the frequency of the scores at each interval. The histogram is prepared by plotting the class intervals along the X axis and the corresponding frequencies along the Y axis.

(Graph)

Conclusion

From the statistical analysis of the raw data

The mean =

The median =

The mode=

The SD =

The high values of AM , median and mode and SD denotes that the students have secured  high  marks. It indicates that the  performances of the group of students  are in the above average level without much dispersion. It also  indicates the effectiveness of the classroom instruction provided to the students.

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Calicut University,

Central Co-operative stores ,

Calicut University P.O.  Kerala -673635

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3.http://englishteachereducation.blogspot.com/ 

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