Andvantages of teachers made test over standardized test

Test is an assessment which intends to measure students’ knowledge, skills, aptitude, physical fitness, or classification in many other topics. A test may be administered verbally, on paper, on a computer or a confined area that require a test
taker to physically perform a set of skills. While Standardized test refers to any form of a test that requires all students to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way and that is scored in a standard or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or group of students.

Teachers made test are appropriate to the class situation rather than standardized test due to the following reasons.

It encourages memorization to the students. When a teacher announces a test to the students, then the students will be concentrating on studying hard targeting to the test they have been announced by teacher. Also during a test when a student trying to remind what he or she has studied before, so this makes long memory among learners. (Mwamwenda, 2004)

The teacher made test motivates learners in the sense that a teacher provides feedback to the students which absolutely may increase performance to students particularly to those who have done well because high performance motivates students. (Thongo, et al, 2008)

It evaluates skills and efficiency of the students. A teacher who constructs a test for their learners intend to evaluate the ability of his or her learners, this help teacher to immediately evaluate what learners have done in the given test.

Teacher made test helps a teacher to achieve the intended goals. Always teacher make his own goal to his student, hence the test will help him to see whether he has achieved or not after evaluating the students performance.

It helps teacher to design a customized test that matches the learning goals and contents of the class. The focus is at whole content or what covered in classroom in order to make and increases performance of students. (Bloman, at al, 2007)

Generally, the teacher made test is significant to the student progress because the feedback given to student encourages learners to increase efficiency as they learn from where they failed, and others are encouraged with the high performance they have performed.

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