The Evaluation of Final Exam Questions for scientific and Humanities Departments according to Blooms Cognitive Classification in the College of Basic Education, Salahuddin University – Erbil
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The study aims to analyze and evaluate the questions of the final exams of the departments of Faculty of Basic Education / Salahuddin University - Erbil, the limitation of the study represents the final exam questions for the academic year (2016-2017). The researcher has used the descriptive method in both the survey and the analytical. The population of the study are all the final theoretical examination questions that were set by the teachers at this faculty for the end of the academic year (2016-2017) / first setting. Then the researcher randomly selected (15) test question papers for each of the scientific and literal departments which are (6) departments and they are distributed among stages (1-4) thus it becomes (90) exams (tests) and their percentage of (51.72%) which is represented by the sample of the study. In order to investigate the aims of the study, the researcher has designed a special form to be used as a criterion for the analysis of the exam questions, which were formed from all the levels of the cognitive field according to Bloom's pyramid, for each group contents are described, to verify the validity of the tool, it was presented to a group of experts and specialists in the field of curriculum and teaching methods as jury members, and after analyzing the views of the experts, the researcher extracted the relative rates of each element ranging from (89% -90%) of levels of cognitive goals. In order to find out the reliability of the study, the researcher took a random sample of 15% of the questions paper to be analyzed according to the cognitive level twice and with a different periods of time, about (4) weeks to find the researcher's reliability work during this time. Then, the researcher asked other analysts to analyze it according to the specific criterion of analysis, after that the researcher created and find out the proportion of agreement between her work with the other analysts’ by using Scott’s equation, methods and data analyzing. The most important findings of the search results is that, the final exams in the College of Basic Education at the University of Salahuddin for the academic year in the first setting focused mostly on the levels of the first three levels of Bloom's cognitive knowledge of memory, understanding and application, and we find that a small percentage of final exam questions focused on Level of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
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