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Completion Type of Test

This document discusses completion type tests, which require filling in blanks to complete sentences or phrases. It provides an example that tests understanding of synonyms by having test takers fill in blanks with the appropriate synonym for given words. The document also provides guidelines for formulating completion type tests, such as avoiding overmutilated sentences, open-ended items, placing blanks at the end of sentences, asking significant questions rather than trivia, and making blank lengths uniform.

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Completion Type of Test

This document discusses completion type tests, which require filling in blanks to complete sentences or phrases. It provides an example that tests understanding of synonyms by having test takers fill in blanks with the appropriate synonym for given words. The document also provides guidelines for formulating completion type tests, such as avoiding overmutilated sentences, open-ended items, placing blanks at the end of sentences, asking significant questions rather than trivia, and making blank lengths uniform.

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COMPLETION TYPE OF TEST

- It is, however, possible to construct supply type of tests that will test higher order
thinking as the following example shows.

Example: Write an appropriate synonym for each of the following. Each blank
corresponds to a letter.

Metamorphose : _ _ _ _ _

Flourish : _ _ _ _

The appropriate synonym for the first is CHANGE with six (6) letters while the
appropriate synonym for the second is GROW with four (4) letters. Notice that these questions
require not only mere recall of words but also understanding of these words.

Guidelines in the Formulation of a Completion Type of Test

1. Avoid overmutilated sentences like item # 1 below. Give enough clue to the students.

The __________ produced by the ________ is used by the green _________ to change
_________ and _________ into _________. This process is called _____________.

2. Avoid open-ended item. There should be only one acceptable answer. This item is open-ended
hence, no good test iem.

Ernest Hemingway wrote ___________________.

3. The blank should be at the end or near the end of the sentence. The question must first be
asked before an answer is expected. Like the matching type of test, the stem (where the
question is packed) must be in the first column.
4. Ask question on more significant item not on trivia matter.

Jose Rizal was born on June ____, 1861.

There are other more significant items to ask other than specific birthdates.

5. The length of the blanks must not suggest the answer. So better to make the blanks uniform in
size.

A part of speech that names persons, places or things is _______________.

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
is called _______________.

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