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Diagnostic Test in Mathematics

Just as a doctor diagnoses a patient to find the nature, type and extent of his disease before prescribing

medicine, a teacher of Mathematics applies diagnostic test to diagnose the difficulties and weakness of the students. Through this test. weakness and difficulties of students in the instructional material consisting of one or more type of mathematics are diagnosed. In diagnostic test, both background and performance of the students are needed. Diagnostic tests are qualitative not the quantitative.

" Diagnostic test can easily be understood with the following example."

A bottle contains milk. Two questions can be arisen. How much milk is there in bottle and why is it full or empty? Question about the quantity of milk (how much milk) comes in achievement test while about quality, why the bottle is empty or pull Comes in diagnostic test. Hence, from the following example, an easy understanding can be made that diagnostic test are qualitative not quantitative. It undertakes to provide a picture of strengths and weaknesses or pupils in learning.

Types of Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic tests are mainly classified into two classes

1. Education Diagnostic Test

2. physical Diagnostic Test

Educational Diagnostic Test are related to study matter of education. These tests diagnose disorder of material according to level of class.

On the other hand, Physical or clinical Diagnostic Test age related to hearing, vision and other things that cause hindrance in the course of a child's learning.

Characteristics of Diagnostic Test

The diagnostic test should the following characteristics

1) It finds out weakness or deficiency of a child in learning of a contents

2) It is qualitative not quantitative

3) It is an effective tool for teachers that helps in planning and organising remedial teaching.

4) It is a based to form tutorial group so as a help the poor student to develop their performance in removing their difficulties.

5) It arranges the items in learning sequence so as to help the student in transferring of learning positions.

6) It adopts objective type tests only.

7) It fully emphasises on all learning and teaching points.

8) In diagnostic test, no score is made for correct answers, only wrong responses are taken into view in the sequence of contents.

9. It needs an expert or specialist to identify the cause for wrong answers.

Function of Diagnostic Test

It has mainly four function

Classification

* Attitude or musical level

* vocational Level

* Intellectual Level

Assessment of specific Abilities with Regard to

* Level of Abnormality

* Level of Depression and Anxiety

* Level of Adjustment

Remediation

* Special Education of Handicapped

* Remedial Teaching for Learning weakness

* Counselling for Mental Ailment

* Clinical Treatment for Physical Ailments

Etiology

* Study of diagnosis

Methods of Diagnosis

following methods are useful for diagnostics approaches.

Testing method

It involves several types-testing procedures Known as

* Educational Testing Method

* Psychological Testing Method

* Clinical Testing Method

Observation Method

It is subjective method and applied only for children for prognosis and diagnosis.

Diagnostic Test in School Subjects

Different subjects in different schools are according to level of classes. Student face several difficulties especially in language and arithmetic. To remove the doubts and difficulties of the students, different kinds of tests are designed, which are given below

Diagnostics Reading Test

Diagnostic reading test includes the following sub-tests.

- Poetry Comprehension and appreciation

- Vocabulary In different areas

- Meaning of sentences

- Paragraph of comprehension

- Rate of reading and Comprehension of poose.

Diagnostic Mathematical skill Test

This test is used to detect the following types of errors. Committed by the student during mathematical operations as addition, subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

- Carry over in addition

- Borrowing in addition

- Placement of decimal error

- Borrowing and reducing one from next

- Nothing wrong number

- Tables are not remembered in divisions

- Tables are not remembered in multiplication

Important steps of Diagnosis

There are five main steps of diagnosis using which, the process of diagnosis is forward.

1. First of all we try to know about the students who are facing this problem. For it, we use different methods about which we have read above.

2. We try to know about the area or type of questions where the child does mistakes.

3. After finding the nature of mistakes in step II we try to Know the reasons of their mistakes.

4. After knowing the reason is step III, we think about its solution. There is not any certain rule prove it. It depends on the nature of the problem.

5. After solving the problem, the process is not yet completed. After it, a teacher should think what he should do so that there problems may not occur in Future.

Steps for the preparation of Diagnostic Test

The following are the steps Used for preparing the diagnostic test

- formulate the objectives of outline or Contents.

- Analyse the contents into subtopics and its element

- Identify the difficulties in the order of sub-topics

- Analyse the items and modify them

- Prepare the final draft of the test

- Prepare manual of test

- Remedial devices and measures.

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Remedial Teaching

The term remedial teaching as the name suggests stands for the teaching or instructional work carried out to provide remedial measures for helping the student (or individual student) in getting rid of their common or specific weaknesses some other measures carried out for such diagnosis.

Diagnosis thus provides a solid base for hypothesising the general and specific causes underlying the weakness or learning difficulties of the student). It is thus true that as the diagnosis so is the remedy for the removal of the difficulty.

Thus, depending upon the general or specific nature of the weaknesses or learning difficulties of the students, we have to take appropriate steps for the organisation of remedial teaching for the needy students.

Organisation of Remedial Teaching in physical sciences

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Remedial teaching in the subject physical science can take various forms like below

remedial teaching in mathematics

* Class Teaching

* Group Tutorial Teaching

* Individual Tutorial Teaching

* Supervised Tutorial Teaching

* Auto- instructional Teaching

* Informal Teaching

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Let us discuss now all these forms and aspects of remedial teaching.

Diagnostic testing and remedial teaching

Class Teaching -

In this system or schedule of remedial teaching, the usual Composition and structure of the class is not disturbed. The teacher here teaches a particular lesson/Unit, emphasises.a point again and again, emphasises a point again and again, repeats the experiments or use some specific teaching aid in order to remove the difficulties and deficiencies of the learners in terms of class as a whole is benefited through such type of remedial teaching. It is proved user me in the removal of the weakness and learning difficulties of the general nature.

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Group Tutorial Teaching

Here, the student of the class all divided into some homogeneous group called tutorial group on the basis of their common learning difficulties and identical weaknesses or deficiencies in the acquisition of the learning experiences in Some or the other areas or aspects of the subject . These groups are then taught separately by the same teacher or different teachers according to the nature of the difficulties and deficiencies. The tutor in- charge of a tutorial group , then trials to solve the difficulties of the learners, however, collectively on a group basis, The Weak area or aspects of the curriculum identified through diagnostic testing are properly attended by the teacher according to the needs and requirements of the pupils of the group.

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In case, it is related to particular work, due Care and proper attention is now paid by the teacher over his own demonstration work as well as on the practical and project work done by the students in their respective groups.

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The group tutorial teaching proves advantages over the class teacher in many aspects. Here, the students who have common problems and difficulties in their learning are more helped in overcoming their difficulties and deficiencies

definition of remedial teaching

It makes the task of teaching- learning quite interested and goal oriented in class teaching there remains a lot of chances that the time and energy of many of the students who do not suffer with a certain learning deficiency or difficulty will go in vain by attending to the remedial teaching not at all needed by them. Moreover, the number of students in groat tutorial teaching is comparatively reduced. It results in making the task of the teaching more convenient and effective for providing better coaching and practice in terms of the needed remedial education.
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Individual Tutorial Teaching

In this schedule, every learner who feels learning difficulty of one or the other nature is attended individually for overcoming his deficiencies or weaknesses. It is one to one coaching, help and guidance that is rendered by teaching to learner and when needed by him in order to actualise his potentialities to the maximum

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Therefore, in this type of remedial teaching, maximum consideration may be provided to the principle of individual difference in the direction of the best result in the task of teaching and learning. Here, the students may progress according to their own pace, abilities and Capabilities and get adequate help individual attention and reinforcement for Coping with their deficiencies and difficulties on path of learning.

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Supervised Tutorial Teaching

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In this schedule of remedial teaching, the responsibility of overcoming the learning difficulties and removing deficiencies in Some learning areas is headed over to the learners themselves. They have to work at their own for removing their difficulties and deficiencies. The role of the teacher is confined to observe and Supervise the learning activities and to provide as much help as necessary to carry on them on their path of self-learning and self Correction. This type of supervision Can be made on the individual as well as for torial group levels. The students may opt to work in the group individually for solving their difficulties and overcoming their learning deficiencies.

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Auto-Instructional Teaching

concept of remedial teaching
This type of remedial teaching consists of auto-instructional programmes and activities. Here, the learner is provided with basic auto-instructional and self-learning material and equipments like programmed learning text books and Package, auto - learning modules, teaching machines and Computer-assisted Programmed instructions etc. This material helps the pupil to gain sufficient practice and drill work in the areas of his weakness and acquire necessary Confidence in overcoming his difficulties and deficiencies through the well programmed self-instructional material.

Informal Teaching

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Informal Science education and teaching suitable planned and assimilated with the formal Science education of the school may go in a big way to act as a source and means of remedial education to the needy students.The activities Connected with such informal education in the form of excursions or trips, collecting material for the science museum, improving Science apparatus, working on useful scientific projects, engaging in the scientific hobbies, establishing aquarium, vivarium, terrarium, botanical garden, zoo and nature study Corner in the school campus and participating in the science Club activities, ete. Make the study of the students and provide unique and special opportunities to learn and practise the facts and principles of science. The learning difficulties arrised out of the lack of interest, non- availability of direct and first-hand learning experiences, deficiencies in the methodology of teaching, psychological needs and problems of the learners and host do other reasons may be easily overcome through the organisation of useful non-formal activities of sciences or scientific interest in the schools.

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