The Delta State Commissioner, ministry for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Patrick Ukah has said its ministry has initiated a process of examination digitalization for online generation of test items.
He disclosed this in Asaba during the opening ceremony of a workshop for the generation of test items for 2021 Cognitive/Placement and Basic Education Certificate Examinations.
Ukah said that the workshop was aimed at generating test items that would measure the teaching and learning outcomes in adherence to the provisions in the school curriculum.
The commissioner noted that the initiative would create a platform to review the past evaluative instruments to generate new ones for the enrichment of the question banks.
He reiterated that in tandem with the provisions and regulations of the National Council on Education (NCE) on examinable subjects, the ministry considered and approved new subject areas for the school system effective 2018/2019 academic year.
The Director of Examinations and Standards, Mr. Sunday Egomagwuna, said that assessment instruments to be generated must cover all the three learning domains such as cognitive, affective and psychomotor.
He stressed that the items must be valid, reliable, usable, and effective as instruments capable of measuring required standards.
Egomagwuna disclosed that each participant was expected to generate 50 multiple choices, five essay types, two practical types, and two project type questions as applicable to their subject areas, and underscored the importance of uniformity in the scoring of test items in all the marking centres in the state.
The director also revealed that some pupils who sat for the last cognitive placement examination found it difficult to shade properly on the Optical Marks Reader (OMR) sheets.
He explained that they were not using HB pencils and called on parents and other stakeholders to educate their children on how to shade their answer sheets in future examinations.
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