(i) Merits
- Enables trainees to express themselves
- Allows freedom/ creativity in expression and organization of thought
- Requires less time to construct
- Easy to construct
- It measures high level skills/ measures highest level outcomes
- Integration and application of ideas can be emphasized.
- There is deep thinking and active participation is involved in the work
(ii) Demerits
- Poor content coverage thus content validity is limited
- There are time consuming to answer
- Extraneous factors which are not part of the testing may be involved
- Achievement may not be adequately sampled due to time limit for answering
- Scoring is time consuming/ subjective/ possibly unreliable
- It may be difficult to relate essay responses to intended learning outcomes be select/ organize/ express ideas.
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