see the difference between previous tests and a new one and make necessary conclusion.more and more tests are computerized. This fact made some changes in usual testing system. If it is a computer based test, the students usually can not look through the test and answer the question they know and then come back and think of other question, in some tests students also can not return to the previous page and change the answer; and on the other hand it saves time on checking the results, sometimes they are known immediately and reduces the scoring errors.is possible to identify in the educational research ten types of tests which can be combined into two groups: performance and personality measures.
Performance tests:
1. Intelligence tests are usually made to measure person s intellectual level. These kind of tests will include reading comprehension, vocabulary choice, solving of a mathematic tasks and others. The most common and word-know test is intelligence quotient or IQ test.
. Aptitude tests are designed to predict person s ability and skills in certain subjects or positions.
. Achievement tests are aimed at measurement of student s progress or outcome in certain subjects or areas.
. Diagnostic tests are a form of achievement test, but concentrated mostly on student s strengths and weaknesses.
Personality measures:
1. Personality inventories are aimed at self-evaluation of different personality traits. These tests require truth and diligence of the respondents otherwise the results can be wrong.
. Projective techniques reflect person s inner thoughts, assumptions and priorities by providing amorphous freedom.
. Measure of specific personality characteristics tests are designed if an individual wants to measure his or her skills or abilities in specific area or in general.
. Measures of self-concept tests usually combined with self-esteem measurement, when an individual measures the feelings and thoughts of himself.
. Measures of learning style and habits tests.
. Measure of vocational interest s tests usually includes questions concerning individual
