"It took us a long time at the Regional Supervision Coordination [in Ben Mellal-Khenifra Regional Academy] to decide whether diagnostic tests should be unified /standardized (at least region-wide) or teacher-made. We eventually opted for the second alternative for different reasons, namely that teacher-made tests are bottom-up, more economical, and more effective. Teachers can design their own diagnostic testing tools in compliance with students’ learning environments and specific needs.
For a well-informed and well-grounded elaboration of valid and reliable diagnostic assessment, we deem it beneficial to provide a few considerations and guidelines that may be useful in planning diagnostic tests, administering them, and exploiting the results they will yield."
In what follows, we re-share an example of general guidelines and considerations for planning and administering diagnostic tests for high school classes, namely, common core, first, and second-year baccalaureate. These guidelines are prepared by Beni Mellal-Khenifra Regional Supervision Coordination, so all the credit goes to them.
