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ISSN: 2835-6764 
: 10.71010/AJSER-2025-e246
Working Memory Load As A Weighing Factor for Written Examination Questions. Specific Utilization of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Author(s): Aikaterini Kontopoulou1, Anastasia Ioannidou2, Stella Gkouzou3, Christos Papadopoulos2, Pericles Akrivos2*
1General Lyceion of Argalastis, GR-370 06 Magnesia, Greece
2Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Chemistry, P.O.Box 135, GR-541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
313th Gymnasium of Kalithea, GR-176 73, Greece
Pericles Akrivos*
E-mail: akrivos@chem.auth.gr
How to Cite:
Kontopoulou A, Ioannidou A, Gkouzou S, Papadopoulos C, Akrivos P (2025) Working Memory Load As A Weighing Factor for Written Examination Questions. Specific Utilization of Bloom’s Taxonomy. American J Sci Edu Re: AJSER-246.
Received: 05 May, 2025
Accepted: 12 May, 2025
Published: 16 May, 2025
Abstract
Assessment of a course outcome is carried out, among other methods, by written examinations where the incorporated open-end questions are usually evaluated by summing the performance in each of the tasks required to complete the answer. The sum produced is then used as the weighing factor of the specific question in the total score of the examinee. Our proposal is that the weighing scheme applied should take into account the average load of the working memory required to complete the required tasks for each specific question. As a measure of this load, we consider the average of the integer numbers ascribed to each of the above tasks in accordance to the successive levels of thought as proposed by Bloom’s taxonomy.
Keywords: test scoring, working memory, written examination.
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