POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIY A, SRI LANKA

END-SEMESTER EXAMINATION

SE 510- PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

Answer all questions. Time allowed: Three Hours

You are required to elaborate on your answers by providing appropriate examples.

1. Discuss the importance and the use of the knowledge behind educational psychology to be
an effective science teacher. (100 marks)

2. (a) Describe five fundamental principles of child development (50 marks)

(b) Discuss how to support children for a better psychosocial development. (50 marks)

3. (a) Describe the major characteristics of Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory.
(50 marks)
(b) Discuss how the fundamentals of the above theory could be used in enhancing
students' science learning in schools. (50 marks)

4. (a) Explain the basic features of the first four stages of Erikson's theory of psychosocial
development. (60 marks)
(b) Discuss how the children could be supported well for a better development in the
above stages. (40 marks)

5. (a) What is meant by learning? (20 marks)

(b) Describe the basic theories of learning. (80 marks)

6. Discuss how the theories of learning could be used in science and mathematics classrooms t
boost students' meaningful learning. ( 100 marks)
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UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA, SRI LANKA

MID AND END SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

MASTER OF SCIENGE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
2016/2017 (Special Batch)
(Make-up)
SE 508 - MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION '

Answer all questions. Time allowed: Two hours

Elaborate your answers using appropriate examples.

1. (a) Distinguish between measurement and evaluation. (25 marks)

(b) Describe the importance and the use of assessing students' performance in the
learning process. · (75 marks)

2. (a) State and briefly explain the four basic types of scales of measurement. (50 marks)
(b) Discuss the use of above scales of measurements in assessing students. (50 marks)

3. (a) Write down one suitable question for each objective in Bloom's taxonomy on
any topic in science to assess the students' achievement. (60 marks)
(b) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using objective type of questions
in assessing students' achievement in science. (40 marks)

4. (a) Distinguish between formative and summative assessments. · (25 marks)

(b) Describe the main qualities to be considered in the preparation of measuring
instruments in assessing students' performance. (75 marks)
 POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA, SRI LANKA

MID- SEMESTER AND END-SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION, 2015/2016
SE 508 - Measurement and Evaluation

Answer all questions. Time allowed: Three hours

Elaborate your answers using appropriate examples.

1. Following are the scores obtained by 50 students of grade 09 class for science subject for
the year-end test.
66 74 80 90 51 53 68 72 48 47
54 59 68 74 64 95 57 60 81 93
71 70 81 98 56 61 72 71 85 73
63 73 65 77 86 72 67 69 64 78
62 77 81 76 91 88 87 79 79 76,

a) Taking the lowest class interval as 45-49 prepare a frequency distribution for the
above set of scores
b) Calculate the p25 of the frequency distribution
c) Calculate the semi interquartile range of the given set of scores
d) Draw an ogive curve for the given set of scores (100 marks)

2. (a) Performance based assessment helps the students to improve their

understanding of the concepts in science effectively.
i. What do you mean by performance based assessment? Give three examples.
ii. 'What are the advantages and disadvantages of performance based assessments?
iii. Explain the ways of scoring these assessments.
P.TO.
 b) i. What are the types of questions that are given in aptitude tests?
ii. Give two examples each for fous types . (100 marks)

3. (a) What is a measurement?. (20 marks)

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(b) Discuss the use of different scales of measurements in assessing the students in the
learning process. (80 marks)

4. (a) Distinguish between criterion and nori:n referenced evaluations. (30 marks)
(b) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of formative and summative assessments.
(70 marks)

5. Suppose, you have to organize two hours awareness programme for teachers on how
school based assessment (SBA) is different from traditional assessment. How do you plan
this session emphasizing unique characteristics of SBA? ( I 00 marks)

6. Explain the steps of analyzing a quality of a question paper. (100 marks)