CONSTRUCTION OF OBJECTIVE EXAMINATIONS.
The article focuses on the improvement of present curricula and methods of accounting teaching. The author argues that the there is a need for improvement in the methods of examinations. The greatest opportunity for improvement lies in the direction of a strong trend toward greater objectivity in those examinations. Accounting, like mathematics, lends itself naturally and easily to the objective techniques. The argument for the objective technique is usually based upon the ease and sureness with which it serves this grading function. Many early efforts at objective examining run into student resistance. Such resistance is often at least partially justified because most early attempts in the new medium are likely to include a few bad items, and students, especially the best ones, are quick to spot such ambiguous, unanswerable items. The cure for this is item-analysis of the results of every test. The ability to analyze and organize is basically the ability to recognize and appraise significant relationships among insolated factors each of which is by itself a simple statement of fact.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-7064386
- Volume
- 25 (1)
- Pages
- 20-26
- Language
- en
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