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Assessment Techniques for Educators

The document discusses various topics related to testing and assessment in education. It provides examples of different types of tests (e.g. formative vs. summative), considerations in developing valid and reliable tests, and ways to analyze test item and student performance data. The overall purpose is to help educators understand effective assessment practices.
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Assessment Techniques for Educators

The document discusses various topics related to testing and assessment in education. It provides examples of different types of tests (e.g. formative vs. summative), considerations in developing valid and reliable tests, and ways to analyze test item and student performance data. The overall purpose is to help educators understand effective assessment practices.
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PRETEST (Assessment) A college administrator wanted an entrance examination that can

  identify future outcome or differences such as showing who will


Mrs. Robles wants to establish the reliability of her achievement test graduate from college or who will drop out. Such a test is one that
in English. Which of the following activities will help achieve her has: 
purpose? A. Norm-related validity
A.Administer two parallel tests to different groups of students. B. Predictive validity
B.Administer two equivalent tests to the same group of C. Construct validity
students D. Concurrent validity
C.Administer a single test but two different groups of students.  
D.Administer two different tests but to the same group of students. which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of matching test?
  A. An item may have no answer at all
An item has a discrimination index of -0.4. What does this imply? B. An answer may be repeated
A. The test item is easy. C. There are two or more distracters
B. The test item is hard. D. The items in the right and left columns are equal in number
C. There are more students from the lower group of the class
who got the item right. What is the best way to increase the reliability of a test?
D. There are more students from the upper group of the class who heterogeneous of the student group
got the item right moderate item difficulty
  increased number of test items
Which objective in the affective domain is in the lowest level? objective scoring
A. To accumulate examples of authenticity
B. To support viewpoints against abortion Teacher Jet Lee just finished checking the exam of her 42 students,
C. To respond positively to a comment and she wants to analyze the items already. How will she divide the
D. To formulate criteria for honesty class into the upper group and the lower group?                        A 
B*  C  D
In writing performance objective which word is NOT acceptable? Upper Group 3   7   6   3
A. Manipulate Lower Group 6   5   4   4
B. Integrate A.Divide the students into two equal groups with 21 students each.
C. Delineate B.Get 27% of the class and divide it into two for the upper group and
D. Comprehend  the lower group.
C.Get 27% of the class for the upper group and another 27% for
The discrimination index of test item is +48. What does this mean? the lower group.
A.An equation number from the lower and upper group got the item D.There is no need to divide the class because the results will be the
correctly same no matter what.
B.More from the upper group got the item wrongly.
C.More from the lower group got the item correctly Ms. Reyes advocates assessment FOR learning. Which will she
D.More from the upper group got the item correctly. NOT likely do?
  A. Formative Assessment
  B. Diagnostic Assessment
C. Placement Assessment
D. Summative Assessment At the beginning of the school year, the 6 – year old pupils were
tested to find out who among them can already read. The result was
In Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, the domains are used to determine their sections. What kind of test was given to
stated from the lowest to the highest level. Which of the following them?
objectives belong to the lowest level? A. Diagnostic
A. to identify the characters in the story B. Formative
B. To differentiate active from passive voice C. Placement 
C. To give the available resources that could be recycled to useful D. Summative
things  
D. To explain the procedure in changing improper fraction to mixed Which referred to as assessment of learning?
number A. Formative assessment
  B. Summative assessment
Which of the following tools described as “teacher’s blue print in test C. Traditional assessment
construction”? D. Authentic assessment
A.table of specification
B. answer key To identify learning needs and respond to it, the teacher needs to
C. table of reliability conduct what kind of test?
D .test item A.Formative
  B.Summative
Which consideration of validity is best described by the question: C.Periodic
Does the test measure the instructional objective?     D.Diagnostic
A.Construct  
B.Content Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessment.
C.Assessment-criterion relationship Which goes with authentic assessments?
D.Consequences A. Decontextualized drills
B. Unrealistic performances
Which of the following test format does NOT belong to the group?   C. Answering multiple choices test items
A.short answer D. Real world application of lessons learned
B.multiple choice  
C.true or false The best way to assess learning is to use real-life situations, objects
D.matching type and materials existing in the environment. Hence, teachers are
encouraged to use:
The instructions for attest are made simple, clear and concise. This A. Rating scale
is part of which of the following characteristics of a good test? B. Pencil-and-paper test
A.Objectivity C. Observation technique
 B.Economy D. Authentic assessment
C.Administrability  
D.Scorability  
 
For this item , Consider the following data obtained in a multiple D.Cooperation
choice type of item 1  where B is the correct answer.  
* In instructional planning, which among these three: unit plan, course
A    B*    C    D plan, lesson plan is/are most specific?
2   11    4     3     upper 27% A. Course
3    5    10    2     lower 27% B. Unit
Question: Which among options A, C and D is NOT an effective C. Resources
distractor? D. Lesson
A. A and C  
B. C and B Teacher Junni asked her pupils to display their penmanship work in
C. C only the beginning, middle and near the end of the school year. Which
D. D only type of portfolio is displayed?
A.Showcase Portfolio
Which part of the lesson development is concerned with mood B.Evaluation Portfolio
setting? C.Development Portfolio
Application D.Assessment Portfolio
Generalization
Motivation Solve for the difficulty index of the data given below. The correct
Deepening answer is the one marked with an asterisk (*).
                      A   B*  C  D
In matching type tests, in which column should the premise or Upper Group 3   7   6   3
description be placed? Lower Group 6   5   4   4
A.Column A A.0.36
B.Column B B.0.37
C.Depends on the space available C.0.38
D.Either of the two columns D.0.39

If Mr. Pagaduan will need to measure students’ learning on the topic Following the ABCD format in writing objectives, which of the
“Self Expression through Writing” which of the following should he following is considered as the CONDITION?  
use?   Provided with a copy of the sentence pattern, the students must
A.Essay Tests be able to construct declarative sentences with 95% accuracy.
B.Problem-solving tests A.provided with a copy of the sentence pattern
C.Short-answer tests B.with 95% accuracy
D.alternative-response tests C.must be able to construct declarative sentences
D.the students
What does letter C stand for in the ABCDs of educational objectives?
A.Candidates If the difficulty index of your test item is .98, what should you do with
B.Capability this item?
C.Condition A.Revise it
  B.Reject it
   In a grade distribution, what does the normal curve mean?
C.Retain it A.A large number of students receiving low grades and very few
D.Reserve it for another group of pupils students with high grades.
B.A large number of more or less average students and very few
Other than finding out how well the course objectives were met, students receiving low and high grades.
Teacher K also wants to know his students’ performance when C.A large number of student with high grades and very few with low
compared with other student in the class. What is teacher K grades.
interested to do? D.All of the students have average grades
A.Authentic Evaluation
B.Formative Evaluation Which one is the most stable among the three measures of central
C.Criterion-reference Evaluation tendency?
D.Norm-reference Evaluation A.Mean
  B.Median
Study the item below. Why is this test item poor? C.Mode
* D.Mean and median
_____________is an example of a leafy vegetable.  
I.             The test item does not pose a problem to the examinee. The mean is 48 and the SD is 5. Lemuel’s score is 2 SDs above the
II.            There are a variety of possible correct answers to this item. mean? What is his score? 
III.          The language used in the question is not precise. 53
IV.          The blank is near the beginning of a sentence. 43
A. I and III 58
B. II and IV 38
C. I and IV
D. I and II Which of these statements about grades is true?
A.They are exact measures of intelligence
At the end of every quarter, Teacher Niel makes sure he gives out B.They are intrinsic motivators for learning
tests that will measure the mastery of his students’ learning. Which C.They are exact measures for achievement
type of assessment can he make use of?   D.They are a measure of achievement.
A. Placement  
B. Diagnostic What does a percentile rank of 72 mean?
C. Summative A. The student’s score is higher than 72% of all students who
D. Formative took the test
B. The student answered 72% of the items correctly
The difficulty index of a test item is one (1). What does this mean? C. 72% of those who took the test scored higher than the student
A.The test item is very good, so retain it. D. It is the student’s score in the test
B.The test item is very difficult
C.The test item is extremely easy. Which one may Teacher G use if she wants to measure students’
D.The test item is not valid. opinions, attitudes and values on a psychometrically controlled
  scale?
A. Semantic differential 
B. Journal entry If the computed range is low, this means: 
C. bipolar adjectives A. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is
D. Interview low
B. The students performed very well in the test
When original student scores are written, the teacher records C. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high
A.Raw score D. The students performed very poorly in the test
B.Mean score
C.Standard score Your percentile rank in class is 60%. What does this mean?
D.Percentile A.You got 40% of the test items wrongly
B.You scored less than 60% of the class.
Complete the statement: C.You got 60% of the test items correctly.
If a student in grades 1-3 does not meet the expectations  in not D.You scored better than 60% of the class.
more than two (2) learning areas, he ________.  
A.Is promoted to the next grade level For diagnostic purposes which type of rubric is more appropriate?
B.Is referred to take remedial classes Developmental rubric
C.Is retained in the same grade level General rubric
D.Fails the year level Holistic rubric
Analytic rubric
Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1.  
To get a picture of the group’s performance, which measure of Which one indicates a strong negative correlation?
central tendency is most reliable? A.-.75
A. Median B.-.10
B. Mean C.-.25
C. Mode D.-.15
D. None. It is best to look at the individual scores 
In this type skewness, you will see that there are more students who
A class is composed of academically poor students. The distribution got higher grades.
would most likely be: A.Normal Skew
A. skewed to the right B.Positive Skew
B. leptokurtic C.Negative Skew
C. a bell curve D.Mode Skew
D. skewed to left

Teacher Joy uses this graph to show individual data points


connected by lines to create a path. What type of graph does she
use?
A.Bar Graph
B.Line Graph
C.Pie Graph
D.Histogram

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