What are the Devices of evaluation in commerce?

There could be a number of devices of evaluation. Some of these are:

(i) Personality tests.

(ii) Essay type examinations.

(iii) Interviews.

(iv) Objective tests.

(v) Aptitude tests.

(vi) Achievements tests, and

(vii) Check lists.

Evaluation in commerce which is a vocational subject, can be done according to the following framework :

(i) To determine and clarify what is to be evaluated.

(ii) Purpose of evaluation.

(iii) Use of a variety of evaluation techniques.

(iv) An awareness of the limitation and strengths of various techniques used for evaluation.

(v) Evaluation is a means and not an end in itself, and

(vi) Evaluation of learning standards

The following points are important to judge the effectiveness of commerce programme.

(i) Testing vocational skills on different standards of achieve­ment.

(ii) Testing the performance of students on some work, activ­ity or employment.

(iii) Examining students on basic concepts, principles or area of knowledge.

(iv) Judging capacity of students.

(v) Orienting them to new situations relating to commerce.

(vi) Making a rapport with inter-departmental coordination.

(vii) Speed test and efficiency of skills.

(viii) Broadening their knowledge of business and educational types.

(ix) Competitive performance in seminars, conferences and group discussion.

Planning of tests in commerce

For a proper planning of tests an expert knowledge and good deal of experience are required. A lot of time and energy are consumed in planning any good test. Before planning any good test the teacher should deliberate to fully understand the objectives to be assessed, the examines and their test-taking behaviour.

For planning a good test following steps are involved.

(i) Defining the population for which the test is to be con­ducted

(ii) Defining the subject-matter for different subjects to be in­cluded in evaluation.

(iii) Defining the purpose of evaluation.

(iv) Analysing the objectives of evaluation.

(v) Determining relative emphasis to be put on various content areas and objectives.

(vi) Determining the types of items to be used.

(vii) Determining the level of difficulties of various items to be used.

(viii) Preparation of a blue” print

Importance of Blue-Print in Constructing Achievement Test

The Blue Print here means the plan that the teacher has in evaluating the performance of the pupils.

The blue print concerns itself to the knowledge acquired by means of study, remembering, thinking, solving problems and formu­lating hypothesis. It is here that the formulation of instructional objectives and their respective behavioural changes can be clearly iden­tified.

In a blue print the objectives are listed out horizontally. The} are knowledge, understanding, application and skill. Again horizon­tally forms test items are indicated. They are essay questions, short answer questions and objective questions.

Vertically we find the content divided into sub units. The ques­tion paper should cover all the sub-units and all the objectives. Thf score for each type of questions -viz. essay, short answer and objects type should be fixed.