Addis Ababa City Administration

Education Bureau
Grade 12 Second semester History Model
Examination
Table of Specification

April/2016e.c
Introduction

Table of specification is also called test blueprint which is a useful

plan to list the number of items that must be included in each
content by considering the number of periods allotted. Teachers
should have to use test blue print to construct test items
proportional to the number of periods allotted for each topic and
must consider the competencies.
This document contains table of specification for grade 12 History
model examination for social science stream. The model
examination should contain questions from grade 9-12. Hence the
table of specification is prepared based on the percentage of
questions from each grade level given (i.e. from grade 9-20%, from
grade 10-20%, from grade 11-20% and from grade 12-40%).
a. Test blueprint or table of specifications
The test blueprint, sometimes also called the table of specifications, provides a listing of the major
content areas and cognitive levels intended to be included on each test form. It also includes the
number of items each test form should include within each of these content and cognitive areas.
Creating a test blueprint will help us to plan which questions are needed to include in our exam
and ensure that it adequately assesses the learning objectives of the course. A test blueprint
defines the knowledge and skills we want to assess and will enable us to build purpose-driven,
successful assessments, Tests, Exams etc.

b. Steps in preparing table of specification

1. List down the topics covered for inclusion in the test
2. Determine the objectives to be assessed by the test.
3. Specify the number of periods spent for teaching a particular topic.
4. Determine percentage allocation of the test items for each of the topics covered % for a topic
= Total number of period
The total number of periods spent teaching the topic
5. Determine the number of the items for each topic
 This can be done by multiplying the percentage allocation for each topic by the total
number of items to be constructed.
6. Weight Lower Order Thinking Skills(LoTs) and Higher Order Thinking Skills(HoTs) to apply:
a. 30 →Easy,
b. 50→ Moderate
c. 20→ Difficult
Test blueprint (Table of Specification)=
Balance the objectives with bloom’s taxonomy
th, th
c. The distribution of 100 items for Grade 9 th
10 ,11
th
and 12 .

Grade Period Allotted Percentage Number of items

9 71 20% 20
∗ 100 = 20
100
10 76 20% 20
∗ 100 = 20
100
11 114 20% 20
∗ 100 = 20
100
12 98 40% 40
∗ 100 = 40
100
d. The Number of Periods and Items Allotment for Grade 9th
Unit Period allotment Number of items Number of items in terms of behavioral
dimensions
1 7(2,2,1,2) (7x20)/71= 2 1-know., 1-Anal

2 8 (3,1,2,2) (8x20)/71= 2 1-know., 1-Anal

3 9 (2,3,2,2) (9x20)/71=3 2-Comp, 1-Anal
4 9 (4,5) (9x20)/71= 3 1-Know, 2- Anal,
5 8 (3,3,2) (8x20)/71= 2 1-know. 1- Synth
6 12 (2,3,2,3,2) (12x20)/71= 3 1-know., 2Anal.

7 6 (2,1,1,2) (6x20)/71= 2 1- Comp.,1-Anal

8 12 (3,2,2,2,3) (12x20)/71= 3 1- Comp.,2 Anal

e. The Number of Periods and Items Allotment for Grade 10th

Unit Period allotment Number of items Number of items in terms of behavioral
dimensions
1 6 (4,6) (6x20/76=2 1-know., 1- Anal
2 15 (3,5,4,3) (15x20/76=4 2- Comp., 2 –Anal
3 10 (5,3,2) (10x20/76= 3 1-know., 2- Eva
4 9 (2,3,2,2) (9x20/76=2 2-Synth
5 12 (4,3,2,2,1) (12x20/76= 3 1- Comp, 2-Anal
6 6 (3,3) (6x20/76= 2 2- Anal

7 8 (2,2,3,1) (8x20/76= 2 1- Comp, 1-Anal

8 8 (3,2,3,2) (8x20/76= 2 1- Comp,1-Synth

f. The Number of Periods and Items Allotment for Grade 11th
Unit Period allotment Number of items Number of items in terms of behavioral
dimensions
1 4 (2,2) (4x20)/114= 1 1-know.
2 12 (7,5) (12x20)/114= 2 1- Comp., 1- Anal.
3 15 (6,5,4) (15x20)/114= 3 2-Anal,1- Synth
4 13 (5,3,3,2) (13x20)/114= 2 1- Comp., 1- Anal.
5 12 (5,4,3) (12x20)/114= 2 1-know., 1- Eva.
6 11 (5,6) (11x20)/114= 2 2- Anal

7 12 (6,6) (12x20)/114= 2 2- Anal

8 8 (5,3) (8x20)/114= 1 1-Anal

9 8 (4,4) (8x20)/114= 1 1-Anal

10 10(5,2,3) (10x20)/114= 2 2- Anal

11 9(4,2,3) (9x20)/114= 2 1- Anal,1 –Eva

g. The Number of Periods and Items Allotment for Grade 12th

Unit Period allotment Number of items Number of items in terms of behavioral
dimensions
1 9 (2,2,2,2,1) (9x40)/98= 4 1-know.,2-Anal, 1 Eva

2 12 (5,3,4) (12x40)/98= 5 1-know., 4- Anal

3 21 (2,3,3,2,2,1,3,5) (21x40)/98= 9 1-know., 1- Comp., 2- app., 3- Anal, 2- Eva.
4 10(3,3,2,2) (10x40)/98= 4 1-know., 1- Comp,1-Anal, 1-Eva
5 11(2,2,1,2,2,1,1) (11x40)/98= 3 2-Anal,1-Synth
6 21(4,3,6,3,2,3 ) (21x40)/98= 9 1-Know,2-Comp, 4-Anal,2-Synth
7 14(3,3,2,2,2,2) (14x40)/98= 6 1-Copm, 1-Aal, 4-Eva
 h. Table of Specification for Grade 9th

Unit Content
Period allotted Behavioral dimension Content dimension

Comp App. Analy Synth. Evalu. Item for

Each
Each Competency Know . each Total Remark
sub
Unit . subtopic items
topic

1 Early Human Beings, the Neolithic - - -

Revolution and the Emergence of
State 2 1.1 1 1
1.1. Meaning of pre- history 7 2
1.2 Early Human Beings and the 2
Neolithic Revolution - -
1.3 Emergency of state 1 - - - - - -

1. 4 Peoples and Languages of 2 - - - 1 - 1

1.4
Ethiopia and Africa
Ancient and Classical World
Civilization.
2.1 General Survey of Ancient World - - - - - -
Civilization 3
2 2.2. The Rise and Spread of 1 8 2.2
1 - - - - 1 2
Christianity.
2.3 The Axumite State 2 - - - - -

2.4 The rise and expansion of Islam 2 2.4 - - - 1 - 1

States in the Ethiopian Region and
the Horn of Africa up to 1529
3.1 - -
3.1 The Zagwe Kingdom 2 - - 1 1
-
3.2 The Christian High Land 3
Kingdom Under Yukino Amlak and - - - -
3
3 his Successors 9
3 .3 Peoples and States in Ethiopia 2 - -
Region and the Horn of Africa up to 3.3 1 - - 1
1529
3.4 .The Dominance of the Christian 2 - 1 - - - - 1
High Land Kingdom over Ethiopian 3.4
Region and the Horn of Africa
4 Medieval Europe and the
Development of Early Capitalism 4.1
4.1. Medieval Europe 4 1 - - 1 - 2
9 3
4.2.Development of early Capitalism 5 1 1

4.2
 Inter State Conflicts in the Horn of
Africa and the Oromo Population
Movement. 3 1 1
5.1
5. 1.The Relationship between the
Muslim Sultanates and the Christian - -
5 high land Kingdom up to 1529 8 - 2
5.2 The Dominance of the Sultanate
of Adal in the Ethiopian Region and 3 5.2 1 1
the Horn of Africa
5.3 The Oromo Population 2 - - - 1 - 1
5.3
Movement and Expansion.
Christian Kingdom and Peoples
6 and States in the Rest of Ethiopian
Region 1543 to 1855
6.1 Catholicism and the Christian 2 6.1 1 - - - 1
kingdom
6.2 The Gondar Period 3
3
6.3 The Zemene Mesafint or the Era 2 12 6.3 1 1
of Lords - - - -
6.4 Peoples and States in the 3
Southern, Western, Central, and
Eastern Ethiopian Region.
6.5 European Explorers in the
Ethiopian Region in the First Half of 2 6.5 - - - 1 - 1
Nineteenth Century
Peoples and in the Pre Colonial
7 Africa and the Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade up to 1800
2
7.1 Mamluk Egypt 2
6 7.1 1 - - 1
7.2 Kongo 1 - - - - -
7.3 The Khoi Khoi 1 7.3 - - - 1 - 1
7.4 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 2
8 Industrial Capitalism and the
Western World
8.1 Consolidation of Capitalism in
Modern Europe 3
3
8.2 The English Revolution 2 12 8.2 - 1 - - 1
8.3 The Enlightenment 2 8.3 - - - 1 - 1
8.4 The American War of 2
Independence 8.4 - - - 1 - 1
8.5 The French Revolution. 3

Total 71
71 20
 i. Table of Specification for Grade 10th

Content
Period allotted Behavioral dimension Content dimension
Unit

Each competency Know. Comp App. Analy .Synth Evaluat. Item for
Each
Unit . each Total Remark
sub
subtopic items
topic

Developed capitalism and

Unitu

1 colonialism in the 19th century 1.1 1 1

1.1 Development of capitalism in 4
6 2
Europe and the U.S.A
1.2 Colonial rivalries of European
powers 2 1.2 1 1

The formation of the modern

Ethiopian(1855-1906) 1 1
2.1
2.1 The Ethiopian long distance trade 3
in the 19th century
2.2 The revival of imperial power in 5
the Christian highland kingdom and 1 1
2
the process of empire building 1855- 15 2.2 4
1900
2.3 Expansion to the south- west 4
2.3
,south and south east 1 1 2
2.4 Italian colonialism in the horn of 3
2.4
Africa 1 1
The Ethiopian empire and the
emergence of autocracy 1906- 1935 5 1 1
3.1 Internal power struggles and 3.1
foreign intervention in the early
3 twentieth century 10 3
3.2 Emergency of autocracy in 3 1 1
3.2
Ethiopia (1930-1935)
3.3 Socio economic developments 2 1 1
3.3
1906-1935 - - -
African resistance to colonialism
and the struggle against colonial
rule
4.1 The Africans people’s resistance
2 4.1 - - - 1 1
against colonial expansion from the
1870s to 1914
4 4.2 The first world war (1914-1918) 3 9 2
4.3 The Russian revolution 2 4.3 - - - 1 1
4.4 Anti-colonial struggle in Africa
between the two world wars
2
 Italo - Ethiopian war (1935-35) 4
and its aftermath
5.1 Italo- Ethiopian war of 1906 -
1941
3
5.2 The Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935- 3 1 1
5.2
5 1936 12
5.3 Fascist rule and patriotic 2
resistance,1936-1941
5.4 The second world war and the 2 1 1
5.4
liberation of Ethiopia
5.5 Restoration of the monarchy 1 1 - - - 1
and 5.5
British domination over Ethiopian
Post second world war global
developments
6.1 The formation of the united 6 2
6 nations organization(UNO ) 3 6.1 1 1
6.2 The emergence of rival super 3 6.2 1 1
powers and the cold war

Africa since 1945

7.1 National independence 2
movements
7 7.2 Pan Africanism 2 8 7.2 - 1 - - 1 2
7.3 The formation of the OAU 3
7.4 Problem of independent African 1 - - - 1 - 1
7.4
states and the OAU
Ethiopian from 1914 to 1991
8.1 Consolidation of autocracy 3 8.1 1 1
8.2 Crisis of autocracy and
8 operations to the imperial rule 2 8.2 1 1
10 2
8.3 The popular revolution of 1974
and its aftermath 3
8.4 The military rule 1979‐1991 2 8.4 1 1

Total 76 76 20
 j. Table of Specification for Grade 11th

Content
Period allotted Behavioral dimension Content dimension
Unit

Each Competency Know. Comp App. Ananly Synths Evalua Item for
Each
Unit . each Total Remark
sub
subtopic items
topic

History and the Historian’s Craft 2 1.1 1 1

Unitu

1 1.1 The study of Ethiopian history

4 1
1.2 The periodization in history 2

Early Development of human 7 2.1 1 1

beings
2 2.1 Theories of the origin of human 12 2
beings
2.2 early cultural civilization 5 2.2 1 1
The ancient worlds 1 1
3.1 Emergency of state 6 3.1
3
3.2 Ancient world civilization 5 3.2 1 1 3
15
3.3 Christianity 4 3.3 1 1
The medieval period or middle 5
ages 4.1 1 1
4.1 European during the middle ages 13
4 4.2 The Byzantine empire 3 2
4.3 The rise and expansion of Islam 3 4.3 - 1 - - 1
4.4 Development of early capitalism 2 4.4 - - - 1 - 1
The Ethiopian Region and the
Horn of Africa up to 1270 5.1 1 1
5.1 peoples and languages of the 5
5 Ethiopian region and the horn of 12 2
Africa
5.2 the Aksumite kingdom 4 5.2 1 1
5.3 The Zagwe dynasty 3
The transition from medieval to
modern period 5 6.1 1 1
6 6.1 The Renaissance 11 2
6.2 European expansion over seas 6 6.2 1 1

The Ethiopian region and horn of 6

Africa up to 1529 7.1 1 1
7.1 Restoration of solomonic dynasty 12 2
7 and the Christian highland kingdom
7.2 Muslim states in Ethiopian 6
region and the horn of Africa up to 7.2 1 1
1529
 Major events of the 16th century
Ethiopia and region and the horn
of Africa and their impacts
8 8.1 the conflict between the 8 1
sultanate of Adal and the Highland 5 8.1 1 1
Christian kingdom
8.2 Oromo population movement 3 - - - -
The Ethiopian Christian highland
kingdom(1543-1855) 4
9 9.1 The Gonderine period 8 9.1 - - - 1
9.2 The zemene Mesafint 4 9.2 1 1
Capitalism and the growth of
democracy
10.1 The English revolution 5 10.1 1 1
10. 10 2
10.2 The American war of 2 - - - -
independence
10.3 The Napoleonic Era 3 10.3 1 1
Peoples and states in pre-colonial
Africa(1000-1884) 4
11.1 North Africa 11.1 1 1
11
11.2 south Africa 2 9 - - - - 2
11.3 The trans-Atlantic slave trade 3 11.3 1 1

Total 114 114 20

 K. Table of Specification for Grade 12th
Content Period Behavioral dimension Content dimension
allotted
Each competency Know. Comp Appl Anal Syn., Evalu Item for Total
Unit

Each Unit . . each items Remark

sub subtopic
topic
Unitu
Unit

1 Development of Capitalism and

Nationalism from 1815 to 1914
1.1 Development of Capitalism
2
9 1.1 1

1
1.2. The Industrial Revolution 2 1.2 1 1 4
1.3. Unification of Italy and 2 1.3 1 1
Germany
1.4. American Civil War 2 1.4 1 1
1.5. The “Eastern Question 1
Africa and the Colonial
Experience (1880s – 1960s)
2.1 The Era of “Legitimate Trade” 2.1 1 1
and Colonial Empires 5
2
2.2 African Resistance against 3 12 2.2 1 2 5
Colonial Expansion
2.3 Colonial Administration and 4 2.3 2 2
the Colonial States
Social, Economic and Political
Developments in
Ethiopia, Mid, 19th C. to 1941
3.1 Long Distance Trade and
Peoples’ Interaction in Ethiopia in 2 3.1 1 1
the 19th Century
3.2 Power Rivalry and
Consolidating Central Government, 3 3.2 1 1
1855-1913
3.3 Territorial Expansion and the 3.3 1 1
disappearance of Local 3
3 Governments 21 9
3.4 External Relations, Challenges 2 3.4 1 1
and Threats: Reaction to
Borderlands
3.5The Victory of Adwa 2 3.5 1 1
3.6 Religious Reforms 1
3.7 Power Struggle among Ruling 3 3.7 1 1
Elites, 1906-1935
3.8 Italian Aggression and the 3.8 1 2 3
Patriotic Resistance: Causes and 5
Courses of the War
 Society and Politics in the Age of
World Wars, 1914 - 1945
4.1. World War I 3 4.1 1 1
4
4.2. The 1917 Russian Revolution 3 10 4.2 1 1 4
4.3. Fascism and Nazism 2 4.3 1 1

4.4. World War II 2 4.4 1 1

5.1. The Aftermath and 2 5.1 1 1
Consequences of WW II
5.2.The United Nations 2 5.2 1 1
Organization (the UN)
5.3.The Post-War Global Socio- 1
Economic Recovery and
Developments
5 5.4.The Cold War Realities: The 2 11 3
Relation between the Capitalist and
Communist blocs
5.5.The Middle East 2 5.5 1 1
5.6.The Dissolution of the 1
Communist Bloc and the Aftermath
5.7.Major Issues in the 1
Contemporary World
6.1.The Restoration of the Imperial 4 6.1 1 1 2
Rule and External Influences
6.2.Socio-economic Conditions and 3 1 1 2
Social Organizations
6.3.Consolidation of Autocracy and 6 6.3 1 1 2
Oppositions to the Monarchical
Regime
6 6.4.The 1974 Revolution: The 3 21 6.4 1 1 9
Downfall of the Emperor and the
Coming to Power of the Dergue
6.5.Socio-economic and Political 2 6.5 1 1
Reforms of the Military Regime
6.6.The Decline and Downfall of 3 6.6 1 1
the Dergue Regime: Internal and
External Threats
7.1.The Road to Independence and 3 7.1 1 1
the Rise of Independent States in
Africa
7.2.Politics in Independent African 3 7.2 1 1
States
7.3.Economy and Society in 2 7.3 1 1
7 Independent Africa 14 6
7.4.The Cold War and Africa 2 7.4 1 1
7.5.Pan-Africanism, from 2
Organization of African Unity to 7.5 1 1
African Union
7.6.Issues in Contemporary Africa 2 7.6 1 1

Total 52
98 40
 Summary:
Proportionality
Behavioral Knowledge/ Comprehension Application / Analysis Total
dimension remembering /understanding applying
Number of items 14 16 22 48 100
Percentage weight 14% 16% 22% 48% 100%

Grade Behavioral Dimension

Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation Total number
of items
9 5 4 - 10 1 - 20
10 2 5 - 8 3 2 20
11 2 2 - 13 1 2 20
12 5 5 2 17 3 8 20
Total 14 16 2 48 8 12 100
Order Easy (30%): 14+16=30 Moderate (50%): 2+48=50 Difficult (20%): 8+12=20
Thinking
Skills