Nature of Criterion-Referenced Test and Phases Its Construction

Assessment beyond the objectives of learning and subsequent learning such an organized system indicates the cancer of education. Such faulty education system leads to education vacuum. It is very necessary that such a flawed education system should be made fault free. It is necessary to free education from the shield of examination and make it objective. The solution to the entire problem lies in the improvement of the assessment process. Assessment is objective assessment is continuous marks are graded examinations are not just for promotion but for diagnostic and remedial purposes. These details are crude solutions to the proposed problem of education. In this reference “Criterion reference measurement” is a panacea for the above problem. There are two main systems of evaluation as Formal and informal. The importance of formal assessment in education is very high. However the importance of informal assessment is no less important. There are mainly two types of tests used for formal assessment. (1) Norm-referenced test and (2) Criterion-referenced test. The book provides a detailed presentation of the Nature of the CRT and the Phases in its construction’.