Concept in Definition ABC

An exam or also test or test, as it is also known, is a kind of evaluation which can be written, oral or in the wake of the growing participation of technology today, through a computer and that its final objective will be to measure the knowledge, aptitudes, opinions or abilities that a person has regarding a certain subject, situation or field.

Preeminently, it is the educational field that has imposed this modality the most, as a measure to know when a student is lazy in any of the issues that he has been taught or when he is in a position to advance towards slightly more complex stages of knowledge. However, in recent years, other areas such as the psychology or the human Resources, in the labor field, they use the exam modality a lot to evaluate the possible future returns that can be displayed by a person who applies for a certain position in a company, for example. In this context, psychological tests have been validated through multiple previous evaluations that include the application of more or less complex statistical processing. These validation strategies allow their implementation in different social and cultural contexts; therefore, beyond the necessary adaptation to each language, the same test or

test Psychological can be used in subjects of different nationalities, which does not reduce its value.

But the exam is not a test of knowledge or fitness that is due to the benefits of modernity... On the contrary, its origins are already found in the Chinese Empire, back in the year 605, although Clearly, its systematic application as an evaluation method in schools is relatively recent. It was in the days of Prussia in the 19th century that the first examinations began to be considered as the we know at present, although it must be admitted that they have been modified in an ostensible way throughout the decades.

The exams can be structured through several questions that will require development by the person subject to evaluation or through a methodology, very postmodern, which has prevailed in recent years and is called multiple choice, in which a question is asked and a series of answers are also offered below, some quite tricky among which the student or applicant must decide. Recent experience has shown a general decline in test scores by choice multiple in university settings, which has motivated a pragmatic variant when it comes to correction. Thus, in a traditional way, it was proposed to establish a threshold or cut-off point for approval, generally equivalent to 60% of the responses. Given that in many cases the percentage of disapproved is high, it has been suggested to determine the median of the scores in the group of students to pass all those cases that are above that level. Although this method has been criticized, the decline in training educational has found in this strategy an escape route to increase the number of approved, perhaps as tricky as many questions from the multiple choices.

Exam Topics