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Essay Type Test

This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of essay tests as well as guidelines for creating and scoring them. It notes that while essay tests can measure a wide range of skills like critical thinking, they are also very time-consuming and subjective to score. It provides tips for developing essay test questions across different cognitive levels and content areas. It also outlines basic scoring techniques like using an answer key and blind scoring to increase reliability. Finally, it describes two methods for scoring essays: compound scoring that analyzes accuracy and structure, and comparative quality scoring that sorts answers into piles by quality.

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Essay Type Test

This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of essay tests as well as guidelines for creating and scoring them. It notes that while essay tests can measure a wide range of skills like critical thinking, they are also very time-consuming and subjective to score. It provides tips for developing essay test questions across different cognitive levels and content areas. It also outlines basic scoring techniques like using an answer key and blind scoring to increase reliability. Finally, it describes two methods for scoring essays: compound scoring that analyzes accuracy and structure, and comparative quality scoring that sorts answers into piles by quality.

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Essay Type

- it is also called discussion type test


- Student responds to a question using his/her own words to express
conclusions and the reasons for reaching them.
- The student must either select he correct response from a number of
plausible alternative answers that are provided, or supply an answer
limited to one word or short phrases.
- Many Instructor prefer essay test because of its apparent ease of
preparation .

* Advantages to an essay test


- Many faculty feel that they are easy to prepare and administer
- Essay supports tge development of expressive writing skills for the
students as they prepare their answer
- Essay can test a vary wide range of cognitive skills such as critical
thinking , as well as allow the student to express feelings and emotions

* Disadvantages
- It is very unreliable and subject to scoring bias
- it is tedicious and difficult to score accurately and it require more time
to grade
Guidelines for the Essay test
1. Select questions to sample a broad range of cognitive and affective objectives and content.

2. Require that all opinions be supported with data.

3. Be sure that students have well- developed writing skills.

4. Guide the student toward the desired response rather than using very general , open- ended
question.

5. Suggest the number of points the question is given and the recommend amount of time
should be spent.

6. Develop a criterion checklist against which the instructor will evaluate the test question.

a. Cite how the answer should be organized;

b. Determine how many points for writing skill as well as completeness of the answer,

c. Determine key elements that should be covered in the answer and number of points assigned
to each element;

d. Determine if spelling and grammar are important and how many points will be assigned;

e. Require the student to answer each question rather than provide a choice of questions since
this will lessen reliability.

7. Problem - oriented and simulation questions lend themselves to this type of test.

8. Tuckman(1975) suggest that an essay test have a career structure:

a. Statement of the situation

b. Statement of the problem

c. Statement of the instruction

*Basic scoring techniques*


Scoring the essay test is always tedecious task but can be made simple and more reliable if ;

1. Use an answer key or criterion checklist.

2. Score the answer question by question rather than student by student in a single sitting.

3. Conceal the identity of the student whose answer is being answered.

4. Writing style should not be confused with content.


5. Ask a colleage to rate a sample of the answers using the answer key.

6. Provide useful and constructive feedback on the answer.

*Two Scoring methods for each Essay item*

A. Compound Scoring
1. Using the criterion checklist , identify significant points on each student's esaay based on
your ideal answer, assign a possitive value
2. Using the same criterion checklist , identify inaccuracies and irrelevant points .Assing a possitive
value.

3. Analyzed the overall organizational structure of the answer and identify the students ability to
integrate the most significant points.

4. Construct written comments to each student concerning the assessment of his/her response.

5. Total the positive and negative values for each item. Record students score.

B. Comparative Quality Scoring


1. Quickly read each student assessment

2. Sort answers into piles representing high, middle and low quality.

3. Carefully review each set of answers in their respective piles.

4.Using an answering key or the criterion checklist, shift deserving answers into a more approprate pile.

5. Score each pile from highest to lowest pile.

*Complexion or short answer items*

Guidelines

1. Allow sufficient space for the student response

2. Keep all respose blanks of equal length to avoid cuing

3. A question format is often more desirable than a statement completion. The Grammatical style of the
latter could influence the choice of answer.
Prepared by : Arribado , Michelle D. Beed -2

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