Assessment of Learning

in the Cognitive Domain

Behaviors measured and

Assessed in the Cognitive

Domain

Cognitive Domain

~ Domain of thought process

~ Deals with the recall or recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills.

Six Hierarchical Levels

Knowledge~ Behaviors related to recognizing and remembering facts, concepts, and other important data on

any subject.

Comprehension ~ Behaviors

associated with the clarification and

articulation of the main idea of what

students are learning.

Application ~ behaviors that have

something to do with problem-solving

andexpression, which require

students to apply what they have learned

to other situations or cases in their lives.

Analysis

~ Behaviors that require students to think critically,

such as looking for motives,

assumptions, cause-effect relationship, differences

and similarities, hypotheses,

and conclusions.

Synthesis ~ Behaviors that call for

creative thinking, such as combining elements in

new ways, planning original experiments,

creating original solutions to a problem and building models.

Evaluation ~ behaviors that

necessitate judging the value or worth of a person, object,

or idea or giving opinion on an issue.

Preparing for Assessment of Cognitive

Learning

What should be tested?

~ Identification of the information, skills, and behavior to be tested is the first

important decision that a teacher has to

take.

How to gather information about what to test?

~ A teacher has to decide whether he should give a paper and pencil test or

simply gather information through

observation.

How long the test should be?

~It depends on the age and attention

span of the students; and the type of

questions to be used.

How best to prepare students for testing?

~ providing learners with good instruction;~ reviewing students before testing;~ familiarizing students with question formats;~ scheduling the test;~ providing students information about the test.

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