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Discuss four merits and four demerits of using essay techniques in assessing ECDE trainees

      

Discuss four merits and four demerits of using essay techniques in assessing ECDE trainees

  

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John
(i) Merits
- Enables trainees to express themselves

- Allows freedom/ creativity in expression and organization of thought

- Requires less time to construct

- Easy to construct

- It measures high level skills/ measures highest level outcomes

- Integration and application of ideas can be emphasized.

- There is deep thinking and active participation is involved in the work

(ii) Demerits
- Poor content coverage thus content validity is limited

- There are time consuming to answer

- Extraneous factors which are not part of the testing may be involved

- Achievement may not be adequately sampled due to time limit for answering

- Scoring is time consuming/ subjective/ possibly unreliable

- It may be difficult to relate essay responses to intended learning outcomes be select/ organize/ express ideas.
johnmulu answered the question on September 13, 2017 at 05:52


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