A Study of Students' Common Errors with Special Reference to The Efficacy of The Objective Based Examination System in General Science

Abstract

From Introduction: The Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan has already introduced a number of changes in the examinations conducted by it with a view to improving their reliability, validity, objectivity and pedagogical values. This has been largely achieved by improving the quality of questions, question-papers, scoring procedures and a host of other things related to examinations. Overall options have been completely replaced by internal options in a few questions. The content coverage has been sufficiently increased. Objectivity has been built in by introducing objective type questions and by providing a detailed marking scheme for short and essay type questions (to ensure uniformity in marking by different examiners). This new scheme 1, 2 has now been in force for a number of years and it is high time to study how far it is achieving the purpose for which it was introduced. With this end in view the Academic Section of the Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan decided to get the question papers and students answer-books in a few selected school subjects examined by a small group of teachers This study is concerned with the assessment of the question paper (Appendix 1) and the answer-books of candidates appearing in General Science for the Secondary Examination 1972.