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Assessing University Final Examination Questions Written in English
Mohammed Ababakr Khudhur, Kamaran Ababakr Khudhur
Test is regarded as a tool to measure the outcome of teaching and learning processes. There are other tools, but tests are still used to a great extent. The objective of the current study is to assess university final examination questions written in English, and College of Education-Shaqlawa has been selected as a sample. The test papers have been received from the Examination Committee of the college. Tests have several properties, but only three properties, namely accuracy, objectivity and scorability, have been chosen to be the criteria of the research. This is because the selected characteristics are general, while the left ones are specific to particular subjects. The procedure of the study is descriptive and analysis. The test papers have been analysed twice for reliability. The researchers have benefited from other researchers’ criteria. It has been detected that the test papers are objective to great extent. This is due to the test techniques that are used by the instructors. Unfortunately, some test papers have been found to be inaccurate. Inaccuracy has resulted from many areas such as grammatical mistakes and punctuation marks. Little attention has been given to the field of punctuation marks. Furthermore, some test papers have been detected to seem strange in terms of scorability. To clarify it, the mark distribution and the total mark of some test papers are not in agreement with the requirements. Finally, the conclusions, suggestions and references have been shown.
Volume 10 · Issue 2 · June 2023The Criterion level of Readability in Teaching Tutorials: Twelfth Grade Economic Book as a Sample
Omar Mahmood Kareem, Omer Ahmed Abdurrahman
Psycholinguistics consider that a comprehension is a process of interaction among reader, text and the surrounding culture. In this process the reader creates meaning and the clarity of the text depends on the language as well as the types of the reader and the quality of the text. In teaching process, the reader is pupil and the text is the written forms in tutorial books. It is important to be known that the language should be clear. The decision about readability and unreadability of a tutorial text has its criterion. In this frame the text book of Economic in the twelfth grade is taken as a sample and assessed in the viewpoints of pupils in a comprehensive assessment process. One of the ways of assessment is to use a questionnaire method in which pupil’s comprehension is detected. This research puts a questionnaire about a written language in Economic twelfth grade book. The pupil’s comprehension is assessed through answering, as a result the readability of the text is determined. Thus It shows that the readability of the text is in a lower level.
Volume 7 · Issue 1 · January 2020The efficiencies of teaching process in the faculty member of Koya University according to some changes
Badrkhan Mustafa Ibrahim
University conceders the most important institution in the process of making human forces for any society. One of the any university is whether the faculty members updating their efficiencies in the process of teaching and tutorial application of them. The aims of this research are to the capacity of teaching among university lecturers in general and according to specialization, gender and scientific title. For this purpose, deceptive method has been used among (80) university lecturer in Koya University for the academic year 2018-2019. The researcher designed a questioner of 62 items of choosing, yes and no which have specific answers. The results showed that the efficiencies of the teachers and the value of (t) were more than the table-(t) value, which means that the teachers care more about their efficiencies. Concerning of the changing relation of demographical gender, the study showed the differences between the male and female values (264-33) more than the average value of the male (247-33), which means that the female teachers care more about their efficiencies than the male teachers. Concerning the Faculties of sciences and the Faculties of humanities, the experiment of (Anova) showed no differences between the both values. Based on the results of the study, conducting more research among different and larger sample is recommended. In addition, the students and lecturers should give them an opportunity in the processes of teaching. Finally, the ministry of higher education and scientific research may take advantage from this kind of scientific research.