PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Area: Assessment of Student Learning 1 & 2

Billy Joe N. Mendoza
Tarlac State University

_____ 1. Teacher A always starts the year by giving an exam that encompasses the entire subject he will teach in a
year. Which of the following could not be his purpose for doing so?
A. To diagnose the weaknesses and strengths of his students.
B. To gain data about the prior knowledge of his students of the subject.
C. To have a basis for determining the final performance abilities of the students.
D. To determine what content and activities to provide for the students.

_____ 2. Assessing students is a must, it is an integral part of the teaching process. Which of the following is not a
function of assessment of student learning?
A. Evaluating the teacher’s way of teaching.
B. Motivating students to learn.
C. Predicting success of teaching and/or learning.
D. Giving supplementary disciplinary actions to misbehaving students.

_____ 3. Assessment of learning has two integral parts: measurement and evaluation. Which of the following
illustrates measurement as a part of assessment?
A. It is a process of analysing and interpreting data evidence of changes in the behavior of students.
B. It is a process of summing up results of tests, giving them meaning based on value judgments.
C. It is a process of appraising various aspects of students’ behaviour and the extent of their learning.
D. It is a process of quantifying an individual’s achievement, personality, learning, attitude, among others.

_____ 4. Constructing a test has a series of steps that has to be carefully followed in order to come up with an
effective test. Arrange the following steps in constructing a test:
I. Preparing a Table of Specification
II. Identifying test objectives
III. Deciding what type of test to prepare
IV. Constructing the draft test items
V. Try-out and validation
A. I, II, III, IV, V
B. II, I, III, IV, V
C. II, III, I, IV, V
D. III, II, I, IV, V

_____ 5. A Table of Specification (TOS) is a test map that guides a teacher in constructing a test. Which of the
following could not be provided by a Table of Specification?
A. The statement of the objectives or topics covered by the test.
B. The total number of minutes or hours spent by the teacher in teaching each topic covered by the test.
C. The placement of each item under its level of objective or type of test it falls.
D. The percentage of the number of correct response of the students after the test has been administered.
_____ 6. Which of the following should be avoided in constructing a multiple choice test?
A. Using unfamilliar words, terms and phrases to test comprehension of similar words, terms and phrases.
B. Avoiding complex word arrangements, this adds unnecessary comprehension difficulties.
C. Using equally plausible and attractive distracters.
D. Using simpler sentences as stems and distracters.

_____ 7. Consider the completion test item below:

“A ______________ is a set of all points equidistant from a fixed point called the center.”
Is this item considered to be effective?
A. Yes, the blank represents the key word described by the rest of the statement.
B. No, the blank should be located near or at the end of the statement.
C. Yes, the item requires only one answer, no confussion is present in the statement.
D. No, the item only measures recall of knowledge or facts.

_____ 8. Which of the following sample true-false items is/are properly constructed?
I. A circle usually have infinitely many tangents.
II. A square is also a rectangle.
III. A tangent typically touches a circle or curve at only one point.
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I, II, III

_____ 9. Teacher B administered a 100-item multiple choice test to her students. She wants to know if the test she
constructed is reliable. Since she only administered the test once, what could she do to estimate the
reliability of the test?
A. She could use the Alternate-Form Method of estimating reliability.
B. She could use the Test-Retest Method of estimating reliability.
C. She could use the Split-Half Method of estimating reliability.
D. She could not be able to estimate the reliability of the test because she only administered it once.

_____ 10. Teacher C gave his students a 5-item Problem Solving test. In each item, the maximum score a student
could obtain is 5 points and zero is the lowest score possible. Using this type of test, is it possible for
Teacher C to estimate the reliability of the test?
A. Yes, he could use Cronbach Alpha Coefficient to estimate the reliability of the test.
B. Yes, he could use Pearson r of the Split-Half method to estimate the reliablity of the test.
C. No, since each item of the test could have different scores.
D. No, this type of test is subjective in nature, its reliability could not be determined.

_____ 11. After administering a 50-item test to her students, Teacher E found out that the Index of Discrimination of
the entire test is 0.5. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of the findings of Teacher E from the
test?
A. Since the Index of Discrimination is 0.5, she should consider the test as very good.
B. Since the Index of Discrimination is only 0.5, she should revise the test to improve it.
C. Since the Index of Discrimination is only 0.5, she should consider the test as poor.
D. She could not interpret the test given with the given data.
_____ 12. Consider the following data from a multiple choice test given to 50 students:
Item Number Index of Difficulty Index of Discrimination
1 0.45 0.47
2 0.95 0.15
3 0.23 0.95
4 0.83 0.40
Which of the following statements is correct based on the data above?
A. Item 1 should be retained because it is rightly difficult and has discriminating power.
B. Item 2 should not be retained because it is very difficult although it has a discriminating power.
C. Item 3 should not be retained because it is very easy and has no discriminating power.
D. Item 4 should be retained because it is rightly difficult and has a discriminating power.

_____ 13. Which of the following situations illustrates Authentic Assessment as a tool to measure complex skills of
students?
A. Judging how a student uses woodworking tools in making a furniture.
B. Using real-life situations in a problem solving test.
C. Providing a plate where students draw a floor plan as an application Coordinate System.
D. Using a model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and having the students use trigonometry to measure the
height of the tower.

_____ 14. Using performance based assessment has become widely known to be effective in measuring complex
skills. Which of the following is an example of a performance based assessment?
A. Multiple Choice Test
B. Situational Compound True or False Test
C. Essay Test
D. Alternate Response Test

_____ 15. Using portfolio as an assessment tool provides teachers opportunities to evaluate students more effectively.
Which of the following could not be a reason to use portfolios?
A. To invite students and teachers to become allies in the assessment process.
B. To show student change and growth over a period of time.
C. To form an intersection of instruction and assessment.
D. To serve as a project of the students that shows their creativity.

_____ 16. Which of the following is not an advantage of using rubric when assessing student learning?
A. Rubrics can improve student performance when they know what is expected of them to perform.
B. Rubrics can help students judge their own performance or the performance of their peers.
C. Rubrics tell students what to do and not to do when performing a task.
D. Rubrics reduce the time spent be teachers in evaluating students’ works.

_____ 17. The Standard Deviation of the scores of Teacher F’s students in a test is 1.78. The test has 50 items and
the mean of the scores is 38. How will Teacher F interpret this data?
A. The scores of the students are not far from the mean.
B. The scores of the students describes a normal distribution.
C. The scores of the students highly diverge from the mean.
D. The given data is not enough to interpret the scores of the students.
_____ 18. The following describes the results of the quarter exams of 7-Agoncillo and 7-Belardo:
Section Mean Score Standard Deviation
7-Agoncillo 38.6 3.05
7-Belardo 40.1 6.35
The test is a 60-item multiple choice test. Which of the following statements is correct based on the given
data?
A. The scores of 7-Agoncillo are more consistent that that of 7-Belardo.
B. The scores of 7-Belardo are more consistent than that of 7-Agoncillo.
C. Most of the scores of 7-Agoncillo are higher than that of 7-Belardo.
D. The range of the scores of 7-Agoncillo is higher than that of 7-Belardo.

_____ 19. Naruto gained a percentile rank of 93% during the Chunnin Exams. There are 135 examinees during the
exam. Which of the following is the correct interpretation of the performance of Naruto in the exam?
A. Naruto’s score in the exam is 93.
B. Naruto belongs to the 93% who passed the exam.
C. Naruto’s score is higher than the 126 examinees who took the exam.
D. Naruto got 93% of the items in exam correctly.

_____ 20. During the oral and board work activities, the performance of the students of Teacher G is highly
acceptable. She decided to give them a test. After checking, she found out that most of the students did not
performed as expected, in fact, most of the students failed in the test. Which of the following could be the
most possible cause of this phenomenon?
A. The test does not posses criterion-related validity.
B. The test is too difficult compared to the exercises on the board.
C. The students lack consistency when it comes to different types of assessment.
D. The teacher mistakenly assessed the students, they were not ready to take the test.