2 kinds of test - Objective test relay heavily on your skills to read

quickly and to reason out the answer.

1. to be given at the start of the school year
2. to be given at the start of the unit a. Multiple choice Items
- It is used to measure knowledge outcomes and various
type of learning outcome
1. Pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment - It’s most quietly use for measuring knowledge,
- Your goal is to get to know your student’s strengths, comprehension and application outcome.
weaknesses and the skills and knowledge the posses -The scoring is easy, objective, and reliable.
before taking the instruction. Based on the data you’ve
collected, you can create your instruction. b.True/False Items
- Typically use to measures the ability to identify
whether statement or facts are correct.
2. Formative Assessment - the basic format the simply a declarative statement
- first attempt of developing instruction that the students most judge are true or false
- Item is use for outcomes where there two possible
3. Summative Assessment alternatives
- the effectiveness of learning, reaction on the
instruction. c. Matching type items
No. of lesson (taken up) - Consist of a column of key words represented on the
left side of the page and a column of option, place at
4.Confirmative Assessment the right side of the page. Students are required to
- is an extensive form of a summative assessment match the options associated with a given keywords.
- It provides objective measurement of students
5. Norm-referenced assessment achievement.
- This improves a student’s performances against an - In matching type of items of option cannot be use
average form, this could be the average national norm more than once, the items are not mutually exclusive,
for the subject history, for example is when the teacher getting one answer incorrect automatically means a
compares the average grade of his or her students second question is incorrect.
against the average grade of the entire school.
d. Short answer Items
6. Criterion calls referred assessment (goals) - Require the examine to supply the appropriate words,
- It measures the performances of a students against a numbers or symbols to answer a questions, or complete
fixed set of predetermined criteria on learning standard. a statement.
It checks what students are expected to know and able - Item should require a single word answer or brief and
to do at a specific stage of their education. definite statement.
- it can efficiently measure lower level of cognitive
7. Ipsative Assessment domain.
- It measures the performances of a student against
previous performance from that student with this 2. Essay or subjective test
method you’re trying to improve yourself by comparing
previous results. - Permit the students to organize and present an
original answer.
Kind of test - may include short answer questions or long general
1. Objective test questions.
- that require students to select the correct response
- These exams have no one specific answer per
from several alternatives or to supply a word or short
phrase to answer a question or complete a statement. students. Scored an opinion basis, although there will
- That include true or false, fill in the blank, matching be certain facts and understanding expected in the
type, and multiple choice questions. answer. Essays are more subjective in the nature due to
their susceptibility to scoring influences.
3. Performance test given to the antecedent and consequent events
involved in the performance and maintenance
 Also known as alternative or authentic of such behaviors.
assessment, is design to assess the ability of a
student to perform correctly in a simulate 6. Self-reports
situations .
 Performance test will simulate to some degree  Students are asked to reflect on make a
are real life situation to accomplish the judgement about and then report on their own
assessment. In theory, a performance test could
or a peer’s behavior and performance
be constructed for any skill and real life
situation.  Typical evaluation tools could include sentence
 Most performance test have been developed completion. Likert scales, checklist or holistic
for the assessment of vocational, managerial, scales.
administrative, leadership, communication,  Responses may be used to evaluate both
interpersonal and physical education skills in performance and attitude.
various simulated situation

Advantages in using performance test item.

 Performance test item can

appropriately measure learning
objectives which focus on the ability of
the students to apply skills or
knowledge in real life situations.
 It usually provide a degree of test
validity not possible with standard
paper and pencil test item. It useful for
measuring learning in the psychomotor
domain.

4. Oral questioning

 The most commonly used of all forms of

assessment in class
 Assumes that the learner can hear, of course,
and shares a common language with the
assessor
 The ability to communicate orally is relevant to
this type of assessment
 The other major role for the “oral” in
summative assessment is in language learning,
where the capacity to carry on a conversation at
an appropriate level of fluency is relatively
distinct from the ability to read and write the
language.

5. Observation

 Refers to measurement procedure in which

child behaviors in the school or classroom are
systematically monitored, described, classified,
and analyzed with particular attention typically