Construction and Validation of Zoomorphic Naming Ability Test in Zoology

Abstract

Zoology is the branch of biology concerned with the study animals and animal kingdom.  It is also known as animal biology.  The study zoology includes the interaction of animal kingdom in their ecosystems such as classification, habits, structure, embryology, distribution, evolution, and extinct species. Zoology is the division of biology that deals with the animals kingdom.  It is the scientific study related to construct and validate the tool to measure the higher secondary science stream students in Zoomorphic naming ability it means that the science of naming, describing and classify organism and includes all animals and microorganism of the world. Therefore, this work is an attempt to construct and validate a tool for assessing the zoomorphic naming ability of higher secondary students who are studying in science stream. For this purpose, a collection of 50 zoomorphic naming ability questions from the content of zoology book materials prescribed for higher secondary students. These gathered 50 questions were undergone pilot study with 100 higher secondary science stream students in Cuddalore District, Tamilnadu State in India and on the basis of index of difficulty and index of discrimination values 40 questions have been chosen. The reliability and validity have also been found for this test tool. Hence, a complete and fully fledged Zoomorphic Naming Ability Test has been constructed and validated through this study and it will be an enough tool to measure the Zoomorphic Naming Ability of the higher secondary science stream students.