Pedagogy of Physical Science-1

  IOTAQB (Instructional Objectives Task Analysis Question Bank)        IOTAQB Stands for Instructional objectives Task Analysis Question Bank. In teaching-learning process many developmental procedures are being practical by the teachers.      A teacher has to prepare unit plan, lesson plan, a unit test etc. in an academic year. In doing all these, preparation of instructional objectives, task analysis and question bank helps a lot. Meaning:      This is a type of strategy where in instructional objectives for a content one written exhaustively based on which different tasks or activities are listed and for each one of the task possible number of questions are constructed in variety of forms. All these put together forms the strategy IOTAQB. IMPORTANCE OF IOTAQB: (USES) The IOTAQB is helpful in the following ways, 1.        It makes the teaching effective. 2.        It avoids ambiguity in teaching. 3.        It helps in achieving the instructional objectives. 4.      

  UNIT TEST/ACHIEVEMENT TEST Teaching and testing are the integral part of educational system. Testing is implicit in teaching some of the stages, which may be properly marked for testing procedures. 1.        During teaching. 2.        At the end of teaching a daily lesson. 3.        At the end of teaching a unit. 4.        At the end of the term. 5.        At the end of the year/curriculum.    A test at the end of a teaching unit is known as the unit test. Usually the test / Examinations are held based on the entire syllabus. A unit test is not a random assessment of questions. It is preplanned, systematic and scientific test. A unit test is a test which is constructed, administered and assessed by a teacher after teaching a particular unit to the students. Characteristics of Achievement test: 1.        Unit test is an Evaluation tool for measurement of pupils and knowledge achievement and to improve by giving feedback. 2.        It is based on a single unit.