Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

Tables of examination specification
 TOPIC 
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ABILITY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Knowledge 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Comprehension  
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Analysis  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.
5. Synthesis 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Evaluation

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4.4 
MARKING EXAMS
The type of test or examination determines the technique of marking answers.
•  Answers to select-type of objective test/examinations may be by ticking, 
ticking and underlining, encircling or crossing off certain responses on a 
specially prepared answer sheets.
•  Alternatively, ticking, underlining, encircling or crossing off certain 
responses on especially prepared answer sheets can give answers to such 
test items. 
•  The latter is commonly used in secondary schools. The teacher or the 
examiner prepares unused test paper by ticking, underlining or encir-
cling correct answers.
•  This becomes the master sheet or the key. It is essential that the tea-
cher/examiner check this key carefully with other colleagues in order to 
ensure that all the answers are correct. This consultation is done before 
the test goes into print.
•  No matter how expert the examiner, experience shows that small errors 
and misconception can occur this may adversely affect the value of the 
questioned items.
•  The learner’s answers can be marked by companying them with respon-
ses in the key or making scheme.
•  Two schools of thought prevail in marking is of essay type examinations 
and practical.
“General impression method”
“Detailed scheme method”
In  the  “general  impression  method”  the  teacher/examiner  reads  through  the 
answer, the general expression on how it fits an ideal answer in the mind and 
opinion of the examiner and thereafter award marks out of the maximum assigned 
for that question.