1.

Of the types of validity tests, what is concerned with the relation of test
scores to performance at some future time, e.g. Freshmen college test can
show success in college?
a. Curriculum validity
b. Criterion validity
c. Content validity
d. Predictive validity
2. The test questions in Teacher Dae Dae’s test were confusing and subject to
wrong understanding, especially to poorer students. What was wrong with the
test?
a. Inappropriate level of difficult of items
b. Unclear directions
c. Ambiguity
d. Test items inappropriate for outcomes being measured
3. Of the following, which exemplifies the best example of cooperation and
voluntarism in the Parent-Teacher Associations?
a. Helping hands after a natural crisis, e.g. devastating storm
b. Attending regular meetings
c. Fund raising for PT funds
d. Running the school canteen
4. Among standardized tests, which reveals strengths and weaknesses for
purposes of placement and formulating an appropriate instructional program?
a. Personality tests
b. Achievement tests
c. Diagnostic tests
d. Competency tests
5. Among standardized tests, which can show how students perform in
comparison with each other and to students in other schools?
a. Competency tests
b. Subject exit tests
c. Achievement tests
d. Diagnostic tests
6. Teacher Bea Bunana makes her tests easy for students to understand, easy to
administer and score and suitable to test conditions, e.g. time. What is she
achieving for her tests?
a. Efficiency
b. Usability
c. Reliability
d. Validity
7. Of the following subjects, which does not belong to performance-based
subjects in which direct instruction is effectively used?
a. Values education
b. Music
c. Science
 d. Mathematics
8. Which of these approaches would reform assessment outcomes?
a. Apply sanctions on low performing schools
b. Focus on testing without investing the learner’s needs
c. Use understanding as means of giving feedback on students learning
d. Compare results of performance of all schools
9. Using extrinsic motivational assessment, what could be the most noble
motive in students pursuing a lifetime work and mission for the teaching
profession?
a. Promise of high rank and prestige
b. Social service to upcoming generations
c. Economic security and welfare
d. Respected position in society
10.To what process of evaluation does determining the extent objectives are met
belong?
a. Authentic
b. Formative
c. Criterion-referenced
d. Norm-referenced
11.Which form of the foundation of all cognitive objects without which the next
level of higher thinking skills cannot be attained?
a. Knowledge
b. Synthesis
c. Application
d. Analysis
12.What primary response factor is considered by Essay questions?
a. Factual information
b. Wide sampling of ideas
c. Originality
d. Less time for construction and scoring
13.Among written categories of assessment methods, what did teacher Maggie
Lagid use when she assessed the stock knowledge of her students through
questioning in an open class?
a. Oral questioning
b. Performance test
c. Product rating scale
d. Observation and self-report
14.In the context of the 6 facets of understanding cited by Wiggins and McTIghe,
what is a proof of a student’s understanding a principle?
a. Stating given examples
b. Repeating it as given by the teacher
c. Applying it to solve his problem
d. Retaining it in memory for a long period of time
15.What does it mean if student Pete got a 60% percentile rank in class?
 a. He scored better than 60% of the class
b. He scored less than 60% of the class
c. He got 40% of the test wrongly
d. He got 60% of the items correctly
16.Which of the following may not be adequately assessed by a paper and pencil
test?
a. Sight reading in music
b. Multiplication skills
c. Subject-verb agreement
d. Vocabulary meaning
17.What should be done with test item whose difficulty index is .98?
a. Revise it
b. Retain it
c. Reject it
d. Reserve it for another group of students
18.What is known as the scoring guides for rating open-ended questions?
a. Rubrics
b. Outcomes
c. Scales
d. Outputs
19.What does it mean to say that the facility index of a test item is .50?
a. It is reliable
b. It is valid
c. It is moderate in difficulty
d. It is very easy
20.With the mode of answering as a point of reference, which of the following
does not belong to this test group?
a. Completion
b. Essay
c. Problem-solving
d. Matching
21.One half of the class scored very low. Teacher Janus gave another tests to
determine where were the students were weakest. What type of test is this?
a. Aptitude test
b. Remedial test
c. Diagnostic test
d. Readiness test
22.On what is normative marking based?
a. High marks of few students
b. Failure of some students
c. Normal curve of standard distribution
d. Student achievement relative to other students
23.What cognitive domain is involved in the student’s clarifying information from
conclusion?
 a. Synthesis
b. Evaluation
c. Analysis
d. Application
24.Which of the following indicates a strong negative correlation?
a. -75
b. -15
c. -10
d. -25
25.What is the graphic illustration for the relationship between two variables?
a. Histogram
b. Normal curves
c. Frequency polygons
d. Scatter diagram
26.What does a negative discrimination index mean?
a. The test item has low reliability
b. More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
c. More from the upper answered the test correctly
d. The test could not discriminate between the upper and lower group
27.What is the deviation from a standard or desired level of performance?
a. A problem
b. A deficit
c. A defect
d. A gap
28.How does a student’s 80 percentile score interpreted?
a. High in all the skills being tested
b. Higher than 80% of the members of the group
c. Better relative to the competencies targeted
d. 80% of the specified content
29.Of the types of validity for tests, what is focused on the extent to which a
particular tests correlates with acceptable measure of performance?
a. Curricular validity
b. Content validity
c. Criterion validity
d. Predictive validity
30.Among general categories of assessment methods, what instruments did pre-
school teacher Justine use when he rated the handwriting of his students
using a prototype handwriting model?
a. Product rating scale
b. Performance test
c. Written response instruments
d. Observation and self-reports
31.On what should teacher’s evaluation of a learner’s work be based?
i. Attendance
 ii. Merit
iii.Quality of academic performance
iv. Behavior in class
a. I and II
b. II, III, and IV
c. II and III
d. I, II, III, and IV
32.Self-evaluation can be done in various ways, but this is not one of them:
a. Use of an evaluation instrument
b. Written reflection
c. Self-videotape of class performance
d. Per feedback session
33.In her test, Teacher Marian R unknowingly gave clues to the answers that
reduce usability of the test. What was wrong with the test?
a. Ambiguity
b. Unclear directions
c. Poorly constructed test items
d. Test too short
34.In preparing classroom tests, which of the following checklists is the LAST
among steps in tests preparation?
a. How are the objective items to be scored?
b. How are the test results to be reported?
c. How I have prepared a table of specifications?
d. How are the test scores to be tabulated?
35.What formula is used to total and compute test scores at the end of the year?
a. [Test scores = transmutation table] x 100
b. [Highest score + Lowest possible score] x 100
c. [Student’s score x 100]
d. [Student’s score + Highest possible score] x 100
36.What can be said of student performance in a positively skewed score
distribution?
a. A few students performed excellently
b. Most students performed well
c. Almost all students had average performance
d. Most students performed poorly
37.Which is true when the standard deviation is small?
a. Scores are toward both extremes
b. Scores are spread apart
c. Scores are tightly bunched together
d. The bell curve is relatively fat
38.In her tests, Teacher Tomden made tests that were either too difficult or too
easy. What was wrong with her tests?
a. Unclear directions
b. Inappropriate level of difficulty of the test items
 c. Ambiguity
d. Identifiable patterns of answers
39.What is an alternative assessment tool that consists of a collection of work
artifacts or in progress accomplishment by a targeted clientele?
a. Evaluation instrument
b. Rubric
c. Achievement test
d. Portfolio
40.What computation did teacher Panny use in getting the difference between
the highest and lowest scores in each class?
a. Mean
b. Range
c. Standard deviation
d. Median
41.Which measure of central tendency is most reliable when scores are
extremely high and low?
a. Cannot be identified unless individual scores are given
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Mean
42.Which measure of central tendency is most reliable to get a picture of the
class performance whose raw scores in a quiz are: 97, 95, 85, 86, 77, 75, 50,
10, 5, 2, 1?
a. Mode
b. None. It is best to look at individual scores
c. Mean
d. Median
43.Self-evaluation has become an important kind of performance assessment
among teachers, useful as an honest self-criticism and a starting point to
removal evaluation by supervisors, peers, or students. How is self-evaluation
described?
a. Evidence of teaching performance
b. Substitute to supervisor’s rating
c. Guide for self-adjustment
d. Tool for salary adjustment
44.What is the common instrument used in measuring learning in the affective
domain?
a. Multiple choice
b. Checklist
c. Scaling
d. Questionnaire
45.On the test giver’s list of Do’s, which of the following is not relative to
motivating students to do their best?
a. Read test directions
 b. Reduce test anxiety, e.g. “Take a deep breath.”
c. Explain the purpose of the test
d. Tell students: “I will be proud of you if you perform well.”
46.What is the range if the score distribution is: 98, 93, 93, 93, 90, 88, 87, 85, 85
, 85, 70, 51, 34, 34, 34, 20, 18, 51, 12, 9, 8, 6, 3, 1?
a. 93
b. 85
c. 97
d. Between 51 and 34
47.What does the test mean if the difficulty index is 1?
a. Very difficult
b. Missed by everyone
c. Very easy
d. A quality item
48.What is the meaning of a negative correlation between amount of practice
and number of errors in tennis?
a. The increase in the amount of practices does not at all affect the number of
errors
b. As the amount of practice increases, the number of errors decreases
c. The decrease in the amount of practice sometimes affects the number of
errors
d. Decrease in the amount of practice goes with decrease in the number of
errors
49.An entering college would like to determine which course is best suited for
him. Which test is appropriate for this purpose?
a. Aptitude test
b. Intelligence test
c. Achievement test
d. Diagnostic test
50.Which of the following criteria is the basis for selecting tests that yield similar
results when repeated over a period of time?
a. Efficiency
b. Validity
c. Usability
d. Reliability