mgy377 ExaM FINAL EXAM
Guidelines for Writing Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--Plan ahead, match itmes to intended outcomes(validity),
Emphasize general tasks rather than small details, Be clear and unambiguous.
Guidelines cont. - ANSWER💫✔️--No unintended/irrelevant clues, Similar Formats grouped together,
Easy to difficult progression, No textbook verbatim questions, one correct answer, Eliminate
overcrowding, Independent Items, Diagrams and tables above NOT below.
Guidelines cont.. - ANSWER💫✔️--Place all items of a give type together in the test, prepare keys or
model answers in advance of test adinistration, Arrange for competent review of the items, No trick
questions.
Guidelines cont... - ANSWER💫✔️--Writing) Write concisely (10 words), Be grammatically correct (free of
spelling and typing errors), Avoid jargon and academic language
General Objective test items - ANSWER💫✔️--True False, Matching Items, Completion Tests, Multiple
choice.
Advantages of the Objective Items Test - ANSWER💫✔️--Wide range of content material.
Short period of administration time
Easier/fast to score.
Cheap(machine)(government).
Higher reliability.
Objective items often test skills other than those that the teacher intended.
, Limitation of the Objective Items - ANSWER💫✔️--Difficult to reach higher order thinking.
Does not reveal thinking process
Can be more difficult (time consuming) to construct
Reusing tests may be problematic (to the same group)
Promotes guessing (25% on multiple choice; 50% on T/F)
Lines of Validity Evidence - ANSWER💫✔️--Content, Response Processes, Internal Structure.
Objective Items used as Pre-Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--It is fast. If you are not looking for higher level
thinking (knowledge of the area; or diagnostic testing). Reuse year after year (to different people)
.
Objective items used as Post Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--Cover more content. Scores reflect higher reliability
and validity.
True False Items - ANSWER💫✔️--Typically used to: measure the ability to identify whether statements of
fact are correct; to evaluate student understanding of common misconceptions, The questions are
usually a declarative statement that the student must judge as true or false.
True False Advantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Efficient, less time to answer, cover a lot of content in a short
amount of time, Scoring is easy and reliable, less demand placed on reading ability than in multiple-
choice questions, can measure complex outcomes when used with interpretive exercises.
True False Disadvantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Easy, extremely high guessing factor, cannot descriminate
between students of varying ability, difficult to write statements that are unequivocally true or false
thus end up writing ambiguous statements, Include more irrelevant cluse than do other item types, Can
lead an instructor to favor testing of trivial knowledge.
Matching Items Advantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Simple to contruct, Easy to score, measures association
between facts, reduces guessing, reliable scores, Maximum coverage at knowledge level in a minmum
amount of space/prep-time
Guidelines for Writing Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--Plan ahead, match itmes to intended outcomes(validity),
Emphasize general tasks rather than small details, Be clear and unambiguous.
Guidelines cont. - ANSWER💫✔️--No unintended/irrelevant clues, Similar Formats grouped together,
Easy to difficult progression, No textbook verbatim questions, one correct answer, Eliminate
overcrowding, Independent Items, Diagrams and tables above NOT below.
Guidelines cont.. - ANSWER💫✔️--Place all items of a give type together in the test, prepare keys or
model answers in advance of test adinistration, Arrange for competent review of the items, No trick
questions.
Guidelines cont... - ANSWER💫✔️--Writing) Write concisely (10 words), Be grammatically correct (free of
spelling and typing errors), Avoid jargon and academic language
General Objective test items - ANSWER💫✔️--True False, Matching Items, Completion Tests, Multiple
choice.
Advantages of the Objective Items Test - ANSWER💫✔️--Wide range of content material.
Short period of administration time
Easier/fast to score.
Cheap(machine)(government).
Higher reliability.
Objective items often test skills other than those that the teacher intended.
, Limitation of the Objective Items - ANSWER💫✔️--Difficult to reach higher order thinking.
Does not reveal thinking process
Can be more difficult (time consuming) to construct
Reusing tests may be problematic (to the same group)
Promotes guessing (25% on multiple choice; 50% on T/F)
Lines of Validity Evidence - ANSWER💫✔️--Content, Response Processes, Internal Structure.
Objective Items used as Pre-Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--It is fast. If you are not looking for higher level
thinking (knowledge of the area; or diagnostic testing). Reuse year after year (to different people)
.
Objective items used as Post Tests - ANSWER💫✔️--Cover more content. Scores reflect higher reliability
and validity.
True False Items - ANSWER💫✔️--Typically used to: measure the ability to identify whether statements of
fact are correct; to evaluate student understanding of common misconceptions, The questions are
usually a declarative statement that the student must judge as true or false.
True False Advantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Efficient, less time to answer, cover a lot of content in a short
amount of time, Scoring is easy and reliable, less demand placed on reading ability than in multiple-
choice questions, can measure complex outcomes when used with interpretive exercises.
True False Disadvantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Easy, extremely high guessing factor, cannot descriminate
between students of varying ability, difficult to write statements that are unequivocally true or false
thus end up writing ambiguous statements, Include more irrelevant cluse than do other item types, Can
lead an instructor to favor testing of trivial knowledge.
Matching Items Advantages - ANSWER💫✔️--Simple to contruct, Easy to score, measures association
between facts, reduces guessing, reliable scores, Maximum coverage at knowledge level in a minmum
amount of space/prep-time
