Educ 6 – Assessment of Learning

Second Examination
S.Y. 2016-2017, 2nd Semester, 2nd term
Name: ___________________________________ Score/Rating: ________
I. Write the letter of the best answer on the answer sheet provided. 2pts each
____1. Which of the following is NOT the most suitable test for naming and categorizing the parts of human
skeletal system?
a. Multiple Choice c. Essay
b. Matching Type d. True or False
____2. Which of the following is suitable test given the learning objective “The student will be able to critique
and appraise another student's English composition on the basis of its organization.”?
a. Essay c. True-False
b. Multiple Choice d. Supply Test
____3. When constructing a teacher-made test, it is most important for the teacher to:
a. develop one-fourth of the question at the level of challenge appropriate for the testee.
b. ask question based on both factual and conceptual learning
c. ask students to express their point of view
d. stress the objectives used during the lesson.
____4. The item in a multiple-choice type of test which serves as a “joker”
a. Obstractor c. Error
b. Distracter d. none of these
____5. Which type of objective test is best or evaluating mastery of facts and information?
a. multiple-choice c. true-false
b. essay d. completing type
____6. I want to test student’s synthesizing skills. Which test has the highest diagnostic value?
a. Multiple Choice c. Essay
b. Performance d. Completion
____7. Which of the following is NOT to be considered in preparing items for objectives tests?
a. make each test items comprehensible
b. group items belonging to the same type together
c. provide specific directions on how the test is to be taken
d. very difficult test items
____8. In making test items of objective type, which of the following should be observed?
a. no clues to the correct response should be given intentionally
b. each test item should be related to the item
c. the vocabulary level of the test should present some form of difficulty
d. test items should include also the irrelevant part of the lesson
____9. If teacher Efrahm wants to measure his students’ ability to discriminate, which of these is an
appropriate type of test item as implied by the direction?
a. “Outline the Story”
b. “Summarize the lesson yesterday.”
c. Group the following items according to shape.”
d. “State a set of principle that can explain the following events.”
____10. Which o the following is not an objective type of teacher-made test?
a. matching type c. completion type
b. multiple-response d. essay test
____11. What’s defective with this test item?
The Philippines
a. is in Southeast Asia
b. has a democratic form of government
c. belongs to the 3rd world countries
d. is the most populated country in Southeast Asia
I. The stem does not contain the question
II. The stem is very short
III. It has several correct answers
a. I only c. III
b. II only d. I and III
____12. How can you improve on this multiple choice test item?
A test is valid when
a. it measures what it intends to measure
b. covers a broad area of the subject matter
c. reliability of scores
d. easy to administer
a. Construct the options in such a way that the grammar of the sentence remains correct
b. Make the length of the options uniform
 c. make the options parallel
d. pack the question on the stem
____13. Read this True-Flase test item and answer the question that follows:
“____1. Generally animals are warm-blooded.
Which test construction is violated?
a. test something significant
b. make use of simple words
c. there should be sufficient reason to make the statement false
d. avoid qualitative terms
Study the Table of Specifications below then answer questions #19-26.
Objectives Topic No. of Type of test No. of items
hours/minutes
1. To write a Writing a fraction 5 minutes Multiple Choice 3 Comprehension
fraction and Application
2. To add proper Adding proper 15 minutes Completion 12 comprehension
fractions fractions
3. To distinguish Differentiating 5 minutes Short Answer 3 Comprehension
between proper and proper and
improper fractions improper fractions
4. To add improper Adding improper 15 minutes Completion 9 Comprehension
fractions fractions
5. To reduce Reducing fractions 10 minutes Short Answer 6 Comprehension
fractions to their to their lowest terms
lowest terms
6. To solve Problem solving on 1 hour Problem Solving 9 Application and
problems involving adding proper and Analysis
adding proper and improper fractions
improper fractions
Total Number of items 47 items

____14. Are the number of test items per objective proportionate the number of hours spent?
a. Yes c. No, but it not necessary
b. No, but it should be. d. It cannot be determined
____15. Is this test item valid for objective #1 as contained in the TOS?
I divided a cake equally to four. I ate two pieces. Which part did I eat?
c. Yes c. Yes, but needs to be improved
d. No d. No, because it is insufficient
____16. Which test item is in accordance with objective #3 in the TOS?
a. What is the difference between proper and improper fractions?
b. Give an example of an improper fraction.
c. Give an example of an proper fraction.
d. Define improper and proper fractions.
____17. If you have to be true with your TOS, when you make your test, on which objective/s should you
have the least number of items?
a. Objective #2 c. Objective #3
b. Objective #1 d. Objective #1 and Objective #3
____18. If you have to be true to your TOS, when you make your test, on which objective/s should you have
the most number of items?
a. objective #5 c. objective #4
b. objective #6 d. objective #5 and objective #6
____19. Which is valid test item for objective #5?
a. How do you reduce a fraction to its lowest term?
b. Is 4/6 equal to 1 1/3?
c. What is meant by lowest term?
d. What is 3/6 in its lowest term?
____20. Here is a test item:
Some test items of multiple choice type of test _________.
a. are too difficult
b. are objective
c. are poorly constructed
d. have multiple defensible answers
What makes the multiple choice type of test poor?
a. The options are not grammatically connected to the stem
b. The stem fails to present a problem.
c. There are grammatical clues.
d. The options are not parallel.
____21. Here is a test item:
 Who is best admired for outstanding contribution to world peace?
a. Osama Bin Laden c. Ahmir Khan
b. Adolf Hitler d. Mother Teresa
What is WRONG with this item?
a. Item is overly specific c. Test item is option-based
b. Content is trivial d. There is clue to the right answer
____22. Here is a true-false test item:
___1. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
Which of the following is the BEST improvement of that item?
a. ___1. If you throw a ball forward to the wall, chances are your ball would bounce backward.
b. ___1. According to the 3rd Law of Motion by Sir Isaac Newton, “For every action there is an opposite
and equal reaction.”
c. ___1. Action equals reaction.
d. ___1. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. The explanation of this phenomenon
can be explained using the concept of String Theory and Einstein’s Relativity.
____23. In creating a good supply-test item, which is true?
a. answers should be brief and specific
b. answers should be extended and specific
c. answers should be brief and general
d. answers should be extended and general
____24. Matching items are best used to
a. assess the relationship between two things
b. assess facts
c. assess whether students are guessing on items
d. assess a student's ability to supply answers on his or her own
____25. Here is a test item: ____ is an example of a leafy vegetable. What is defective with this test item?
I. The test item does not pose a problem to the examinee.
II. There are varieties of possible correct answer to this item.
III. The language use in the question is not precise.
IV. The blank is near at the beginning of a sentence
a. I and III c. I and IV
b. II and IV d. I and II
____26. Of the questions below, which is the best supply-test item?
a. How long is a kilometer?______
b. _______ meter(s) is equal to one kilometer.
c. A kilometer is _________.
d. What is the metric equivalent to a kilometer?________
____27. Which improvement/s should be done on this completion test item: An example of a mammal is
____
a. The question should have only one acceptable answer
b. The blank should be at the beginning of the sentence
c. The item should give more cues
d. The blank should be longer to accommodate all possible answers
____28. Here is an essay test item:
“The improvement of basic education should be the top priority of the Philippine government. Defend or
refute this position”
Under what type does this item fall?
a. Analysis c. Application
b. Evaluative d. Convergent
____29. Which of the following is a restricted essay test?
a. What should the Department of Education do to solve the perennial problem of poor quality of
basic education? Give and justify your proposals.
b. If you were President of the Philippines, what would you do to spur the nations’ economic
growth?
c. What conditions must be present for photosynthesis to take place? Explain each factor in not
more than 3 sentences.
d. Why are more and more people sick of Alzheimer’s disease?
Here is a test. Study it thoroughly then answer the ff. questions.
____1. Thought a. Anybody
____2. Noun b. past form of the verb think
____3. He wrote “To the Filipino c. he is the great Plebian
Youth” d. an example of an adverb
____4. Walk e. an example of a collective noun
____5. Andres Bonifacio f. looks like a verb but used as
____6. Class noun
____7. Gerund g. describes a noun and a
____8. Adjective pronoun
____9. Very h. an example of an intransitive
 ____10. Pronoun verb
i. Jose Rizal
j. a name word
____30. What’s wrong with the test items? The items are _____.
a. heterogeneous c. easy
b. homogeneous d. insignificant
____31. The difficulty index of a test item is one (1). What does this mean?
a. The test item is very good, so retain it. c. The test item is very difficult.
b. The test item is extremely easy. d. The test item is not valid.
____32. The discrimination index of a test item is 0.35. What does this mean?
a. More from the upper group got the item correctly. c. The test is quite reliable.
b. More from the lower group got the item correctly. d. The test item is valid.
____33. The discrimination index of a test item is 0.5. What does this mean?
a. an equal number from the lower and upper group got the item correctly.
b. more from the upper group got the item wrongly
c. more from the lower group got the item correctly
d. more from the upper group got correctly
____34. If the difficulty index of your test item is 0.98, what should you do with this item?
a. revise it b. reject it c. retain it d. reserve it
____35. If the difficulty index of your test item is 0.10, what should you do with this item?
a. revise it b. reject it c. retain it d. reserve it
____36. A negative discrimination index of a test item tells that particular test item lacks ______.
a. objectivity b. reliability c. content validity d. construct validity
____37. In a multiple choice test item with options A-B-C-D and out of 50 examines:
A. the correct answer, was chosen by 5
B. was chosen by 30;
C. was chose by 13 and;
D. was chosen by 2.
Which was the most effective distracter?
a. option A b. option D c. option C d. option B
____38. Consider the question: "List and discuss three main causes of the American Civil War." Which type
of item is this?
a. Selection c. Short-answer
b. Extended-response essay question d. Restricted-response essay
question
____39. What is perhaps the most serious limitation of true-false items?
a. issues of short-term memory c. issues of motivation
b. issues of power in testing d. issues of guessability in items
____40. How should the test results be used to advantage?
a. as index of comparing achievement
b. as indicator of learner’s knowledge of subject matter
c. as a means of assessing students’ performance in the subject
d. as indicator of learner’s performance with respect to competencies in the subject areas
II. Answer the following questions comprehensively.
1. Discuss the five important steps in constructing a test.

2. What is the importance of conducting item analysis on the test?

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