The purpose of this study is to find out how much the items of the test reflected the spirit of the Japan occupation times, exploitation and resistance. It is found that the items had content validity showing the appropriateness of attaining the goals...
The purpose of this study is to find out how much the items of the test reflected the spirit of the Japan occupation times, exploitation and resistance. It is found that the items had content validity showing the appropriateness of attaining the goals, importance of the facts, and developing thinking skills. Students tend to simply memorize the facts frequently covered in the test, which can lead to the fixed and shallow historical image to them. Students also showed difficulties in the test items dealing with particular chapters, the questions without pictures, and the items of unfamiliar historical facts, or having attractive wrong answers. In order for the test items to help students to understand history, two things should be considered when making questions. First, when selecting question materials, we should try to include proper amount of the facts, for students not to distort historical facts with narrow interpretation. Also it is recommended to choose rather complicated materials to improve their thinking skills. Second, thinking of the item frequency, we should not lean too much towards particular chapters or periods, because it can give students the biased historical image who think the more frequent the items, the more important. The history about Japan occupation should be covered with rational judgment rather than emotional approach and the test should also include value and attitude evaluation. Thus, it is suggested that supplemented tests, such as essay tests and performance tests, should be applied in the test, besides multiple choice tests.