Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

The study aimed to develop the test construction ability of pre-service teachers, majoring in English at Faculty of Education, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, using Miller’s Model. In the model, there are 4 stages, Knows, Knows how, Shows how and Does. The first two represent the cognition domain and the other two are the behavior domain. The cognition domain focuses on knowledge and understanding while the other emphasizes a hands-on experience. According to this study’s timeframe, the development on the cognition was reported. In this phase, the inquiry-based learning activities in which there were prior experience sharing, query posting, information seeking and knowledge sharing in Knows and knowledge reviewing in Knows how, was employed. Then, they did their paper tests at the end of Knows and Knows how stages. The purposive sampling was used in this study and there were 81 pre-service teachers. The research instruments were a course syllabus whose instructional process was in accord with Miller’s model and inquiry-based learning, inquiry-based learning activities, 2 sets of tests on test construction knowledge. The results showed that their overall score results at the Knows and the Knows how stages were at the good and the very good levels, respectively. This improvement illustrated that they could learn multi-dimensional knowledge from the combination of inquiry-based learning and Miller’s Model.