Rationale for Test Items and Essay Items

My thought process and rationale behind the test items is to let students be able to correctly identify the exact number of days that are in a week, to be able to recite the days of the week in sequence and to be able to write them down in the correct order. And these help the student to know that the beginning of another week actually starts from Sunday.

My rationale behind the essay item is to find out from the student the days of the week that they like most and their reasons for choosing the day and be able to find out what makes each day special to each student.           

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Educational Testing and Measurement: Classroom Application and Practice, 9^th Edition Tom Kubiszyn.

3 Measurable Outcomes

THE THREE MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME FOR A HYPOTHETICAL UNIT OF STUDY ARE AS FOLLOWS.

GRADE LEVEL: KINDERGARTEN

FIRST MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME:  Students will correctly identify how many days are in a week. By being 100% accurate.

SECOND MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the days of the week by reciting them one by one in the correct order. With 100% accuracy.

THIRD MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME:  Students will then write down the days of the week one by one in the correct order with 100% accuracy.

TEST ITEM (1) Students will demonstrate their knowledge, by identifying   the number of days that are in a week, and correctly picking the right number from the flash cards i.e. 8, 5, 7, 6, 4, 9.

TEST ITEM (2) Students will demonstrate their abilities to recap by reciting the days of the week that they have listened to on the nursery rhyme cd rom.

TEST ITEM (3) Students will  demonstrate their  knowledge by writing down the days of the week Starting from the first day of the week i.e. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

ESSAY ITEM: Students will write about their favorite day of the week and why this day is particularly special to them.