Taoyuan Municipal Taoyuan Junior High School Regular Assessment Question Setting Implementation Rules

107Year11Month07Day Curriculum Development Committee Approved
                                                                    115Year01Month07Day Curriculum Development Committee Revised

I. Basis:

1. Principles of Student Learning Assessment for Elementary and Junior High Schools(113Year04Month24Day Ministry of Education Order No.1135500955ARevision))

2. Supplementary Regulations for Student Learning Assessment in Taoyuan City Junior High Schools(113Year08Month14Day Government Education Middle School Letter No.1130221536Promulgation))

II. Purpose:

1. To enable students to review their learning outcomes and adjust their learning methods accordingly.

2. To understand students' individual differences as a basis for enriching teaching and learning support.

3. To ensure the professionalism, diagnostic nature, fairness, standardization, and confidentiality of assessments;To implement a review mechanism for regular assessments in learning domains and to adhere to the principle of avoidance.

III. Principles of Question Setting:

1. Discussed in the domain meeting at the beginning of each semester. Teachers responsible for setting and reviewing questions for periodic exams shall be assigned in accordance with the principle of avoidance, and the list shall be submitted to the Academic Affairs Office for record.

2. Question setters shall uphold professionalism and design appropriate assessment questions based on the scope and progress of the annual curriculum plan, taking into account the teaching progress.

3. Refer to the provisions of the assessment guidelines, covering aspects such as knowledge, comprehension, application, synthesis, analysis, induction, and reading.

4. Consider the time for students to answer, balancing difficulty, discrimination, and appropriate allocation of points.

5. Questions from commercial reference books or publisher's question bank CDs, or past papers from the Basic Competency Test or General Scholastic Aptitude Test, shall not be directly quoted or copied verbatim; they should be transformed.

6. All faculty and staff responsible for the examination papers shall strictly maintain the confidentiality of the assessment questions and properly store the question materials to prevent leakage and uphold the fairness of student assessment results.

IV. Principles of Question Review:

1. Each domain shall assign three teachers responsible for reviewing periodic exam questions at the beginning of the semester domain meeting. Review can be done by rotation, for example, the questions for the first periodic exam can be reviewed by the teachers responsible for setting questions for the second periodic exam, or reviewers can be assigned according to division of labor.
2. Reviewers shall conduct the review based on the following principles:
   1. The scope of the questions should be in line with the teaching progress.
   2. The wording of the questions should be clear, the options complete and accurate, and typos should be avoided.
   3. Determine whether the difficulty of the questions is appropriate.
   4. During the review, examine the question setting principles, ensure that accompanying figures are clear and easy to interpret, and that they are consistent with the question's meaning, point allocation, title, font, options, etc., to avoid errors.
   5. If controversial questions arise and the question setter and reviewer cannot reach a consensus, the matter may be submitted to the domain convener for re-examination. The examination paper shall not be printed until revisions are confirmed, in order to protect students' rights.

V. Principle of Avoidance:

When a teacher has a child enrolled in the school, they shall avoid teaching the class their child is in. When assigned question setting or review tasks, they shall also avoid the grade level their child is in, to prevent their child's assessment results from being questioned.

VI. These implementation rules shall be announced and implemented after being approved by the Curriculum Development Committee and ratified by the Principal. Amendments shall follow the same procedure.