Educ 202 Quiz

1. Teachers should plan every testing activity.
In doing so, they must consider the:

I. Testing venue
II. Test constructor’s skills
III. Test takers’ language level
IV. Vision and philosophy of the school
 II and III
 IV only
 I, II, III, and IV
 I, II, and III
2. Which describe the spread of scores, or how large the differences between the individual scores?
 Measures of central tendency
 Measures of relative position
 Measures of shape
 Measures of variability
3. It is calculated by adding all values, then dividing the sum by the number of values.
 Mean
 Range
 Mode
 Median
4. If the computed standard deviation is low, this means that

 The difference between the highest and the lowest scores is high
 The difference between the highest and lowest scores is low
 The scores of the students are clustered around the mean
 The scores of the students are far from the mean
5. Calculate the range of the score distribution: { 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 22, 17, 16, 20, 19, 19, 20}
 11
 13
 16
 16.5
6. Which of the following measures is most affected by outliers?

 Median
 Mean and median
 Mean
 Mode
7. Data is presented in a chart , diagram, or any form of visual representation.

 Spatial
 Textual
 Graphical
 Tabular
8. Which of the following describe/s tabular data presentation?
I. Often misleads the readers
II. Easy to construct and read
III. Suitable in dealing with small sets of data
IV. Facilitates comparison between variables
 II, III and IV
 I and III
 III only
 II and IV
9. It is the simplest scale of measurement which involves the assignment of different numerals into categories that
are quantitatively different.
 Nominal
 Ratio
 Ordinal
 Interval
10. The test item has a discrimination index of -2 and a difficulty index of 1.0. What does this imply to test
construction? Teacher must _____
 Shelve the item for future use
 Retain the item
 Recast the item
 Reject the item
11. On this level of measurement, zero indicates the absence of what is being measured.
 Interval
 Nominal
 Ratio
 Ordinal
12. This measure of central location is NOT sensitive to extreme values

 None of these
 Mode
 Mean
 Median
13. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.45 and a discrimination index of 0.40. What should the test constructor do?
 Revise the item
 Retain the item
 Make it a bonus item
 Reject the item
14. Refer to this set of scores: {47, 36, 38, 43, 35, 44, 36, 21, 39, 40, 38, 26, 48} How will you describe the
distribution?
 Multimodal
 Bimodal
 No mode
 Unimodal
15. Which statement on test result interpretation is correct?

 The use of statistical technique gives meaning to pupil’s score
 A raw score by itself is meaningful
 Test scores do not in any way reflect teacher’s effectiveness
 The score of the student is the final indicator of his ability
16. A negative discrimination index means that:

 The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
 More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
 More from the upper group got the item correctly
 The test item has high reliability
17. Out of 3 distracters in a multiple-choice test item, namely B, C and D, no one chose D as an answer. This implies
that D is a/an
 Ineffective distracter
 Effective distracter
 Vague distracter
 Plausible distracter
18. Here is the completion test item:

The _____ is obtained by dividing the ____ by the ____.
The rule in completion test item construction violated is
 The required response should be a single word or a brief phrase
 Avoid grammatical clues to answer
 Avoid indefinite statements
 Avoid over mutilated statements
19. Which of the following could produce more than one value?
 Median
 Mean
 Mode
 Median and mode
20. Teacher Joelyn constructs a table of specifications and made it as bases for her quarterly assessment in English.
The students can be assured that the test has
 Internal consistency
 Criterion validity
 Content validity
 Reliability
21. After scoring, Teacher Diosa got the difference of the highest and lowest scores in each class. What did she
compute?
 Median
 Inter-quartile range
 Variance
 Range
22. Compute the inter-quartile range (IQR) of this data set: 68, 90, 46, 50, 93, 78, 53, 73, 85, 87.
 34
 85.5
 27
 75.5
23. Which is true if the computed standard deviation is big?

 The class performance is on the average
 Scores are spread apart
 Scores are toward both extremes
 Scores are clustered around the mean
24. It divides the set of data into two equal halves

 Mode
 Range
 Mean
 Median
25. Teacher Kevin constructed a matching type test. In his columns of items are a combination of events, people,
circumstances. Which of the following guidelines in constructing matching type of test did he VIOLATE?
 Make list of items heterogeneous
 Provide three or more options
 List options in an alphabetical order
 Make list of items homogeneous
26. Refer to this set of scores: {47, 36, 38, 43, 35, 44, 36, 21, 39, 40, 38, 26, 48}
Calculate the median.
 36
 27
 37.77
 38
27. Which measure(s) of central tendency can be determined by mere inspection?

 Median
 Median and mode
 Mean
 Mode
28. Which improvement should be done on this completion test item:
An example of a mammal is ___________.
 The blank should be longer to accommodate all possible answers
 The question should have only one acceptable answer
 The blank should be at the beginning of the sentences
 The item should give more cues
29. A positive discrimination index means that:

 More from the upper group got the item correctly
 The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
 The test item has high reliability
 More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
30. Which is FALSE about textual presentation of data?

 One must read through the whole text to get the main point
 It allows the presenter to interpret the data more elaborately
 Large sets of data can be easily presented through textual presentation
 Data are presented in the form of words, sentences, and paragraph

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1. Teachers should plan every testing activity.

In doing so, they must consider the:

4. If the computed standard deviation is low, this means that

6. Which of the following measures is most affected by outliers?

7. Data is presented in a chart , diagram, or any form of visual representation.

12. This measure of central location is NOT sensitive to extreme values

15. Which statement on test result interpretation is correct?

16. A negative discrimination index means that:

18. Here is the completion test item:

23. Which is true if the computed standard deviation is big?

24. It divides the set of data into two equal halves

27. Which measure(s) of central tendency can be determined by mere inspection?

29. A positive discrimination index means that:

30. Which is FALSE about textual presentation of data?

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