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Item Effectiveness of marking scheme in testing(Department of English Education, 2009) Pokhrel, KumarThis thesis entitled 'Effectiveness of Marking Scheme in Language Testing' has aimed to find out effectiveness of marking scheme in testing especially the answer sheets of SLC level students. For this purpose the data were collected conducting conference marking selecting 40 teachers from the two districts-Jhapa and Morang of eastern Nepal. The selected teachers were trained and untrained, male and female, private boarding school and government school teachers. After using marking scheme the difference was found item wise. More variation in marking was found to occur in subjective type test items than objective ones without using marking scheme. After using marking scheme the variation was minimized to some extent. The gist of the research is that marking scheme is effective in testing both types of language competencies: reading and writing. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, language and language testing, meaning and importance of marking, approaches to marking , objectives of the study, significance of the study. The second chapter includes the methodology applied to carry out research. It deals with the sources of data sampling procedures, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and the interpretation of the data. The researcher has used descriptive style to present processes of effectiveness of marking scheme in testing and he has compared and contrasted the scoring of answer sheets of the students scored by the teachers using marking scheme and without using marking scheme. The researcher especially focused on the variation and differences in average mark after using marking scheme in testing the answer sheets. The answer sheets were graded considering the competency level of the students and named as set A, B and C. The fourth chapter presents the findings and recommendations. On the basis of analyzed data, some findings have been listed, and, in turn, on the basis of these findings, some recommendations have been made for pedagogical implications.Item Reading comprehension test strategies adopted by English teachers of school level(Faculty of Education, Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011) Chhetri, Rana Bahadur NeupaneThis study is the study of ‘Reading Comprehension Test Strategies Adopted by English Teachers of School Level’. The study attempted to identify the test strategies adopted by English teachers of school level. I utilized both the primary and secondary sources of data. The data for the study were collected by using purposive non-random sampling procedure. For primary data, I took twenty lower secondary and twenty secondary English teachers from Gandaki and Bagmiti zone. In order to find out the test strategies adopted by English teachers of school level, I used questionnaire as the tool of the research. The collected data were systematically analyzed using simple statistical tools. I used tables, bar diagrams and pie chart to analyze and present the collected data. From the collected data, I found that the English teachers of school level used different test strategies while testing reading comprehension text. I also found that some of the teachers were unknown about some of the strategies. So, they should be trained and informed about them to make their teaching and testing effective and result oriented. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Similarly, chapter two consists of the methodology adopted in course of the study. Sources of data, tools for data collection and the limitations of the study are the topics which come under chapter two. Similarly, chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained through the primary and secondary sources. Chapter four includes findings and recommendations which are derived and suggested with the help of analysis and interpretation of the data. References and appendices are included at the end of this work to make the work more valid.