A NEW APPROACH IN PREPARING ASSESSMENT TO GAUGE STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE

Abstract

To gauge students understanding after taking a subject, training and others, an assessment will be conducted. The assessment can be in the form of verbal, practical and the most popular among all is in writing. The teacher or lecturer will assemble questions in accordance to topics covered by the syllabus that had been taught to the students. This assessment gauge the understanding of the students in grasping the knowledge of the subject. Usually, no one will bat an eye if the student performance is good, however, the assessment is suggested to be relook if the performance of students getting worse. In traditional way of writing assessment, all the topics will be questioned in final examination. This traditional method has been proven suitable for most of the subjects. However, for a subject that has many topics to be covered in syllabus, the students may find it hard to perform and obtained good result. The objective of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of new proposed method of assessment to gauge the understanding of students taking the course of Statics and Dynamics (CES420). This proposed new method is where only a selective topic will be asked once in assessment and will not be repeated as per old conventional method. For this study, the results, and performances of 451 students were analysed. Out of 451 students, 97 students wre tested using traditional exam method whereas 354 students were using the new exam method. The result shows a promising result on the performance of the students using new method of writing assessment.