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3. 2.3 Various Types of Test

2.3 Various Types of Test

🎯Learning Outcomes:     

Demonstrate understanding in differentiating the various types of tests and how they are applied in
teaching and learning.

Various Types of Test

               Giving various types of tests allows teachers to monitor students’ performance

comprehensively. Gabuyo (2012) and (Garcia, 2008) differentiated that several types of test
that are necessary to provide students with the timely, specific feedback that they need. 

A. Non-standardized Test versus Standardized Test

1. Non-standardized Test is a type of test developed by the classroom teachers. 

2. Standardized Test is a type of test developed by test specialists. It is administered,

scored, and interpreted using a specific standard condition.  

B. Objective Test versus Subjective Test

1. Objective Test is a type of test in which two or more evaluators give an

examinee the same score. 
2. Subjective Test is a type of test in which the scores are influenced by the
judgment of the evaluators, meaning there is no one correct answer. 

C. Intelligence Test versus Aptitude Test

1. Intelligence Test is a test that measures the mental ability of an individual. 

 2. Aptitude Test is a test designed for the purpose of predicting the likelihood of an
individual’s success in a learning area or field of endeavor. 

D. Speed test versus Power test

1. Speed test is designed to measure several items an individual can complete over a
certain period.  
2. Power test is designed to measure the level of performance rather than speed of
response. It contains test items that are arranged according to the increasing degree of
difficulty. 

E. Supply test versus Fixed-response test 

1. Supply test is a type of test that requires the examinees to supply an answer. As such,
an essay test item or completion or short answer test item.
2. Fixed response test is a type of test that requires the examinees to select an answer
from a given option. 

 F. Other forms based on the nature of the answer :

1. Personality Test- It is a test designed for assessing some aspects of an individual’s

personality. Some areas tested in this kind of test include the following: emotional test
and social adjustment; dominance and submission; value orientation; disposition;
emotional stability; frustration level; and degree of introversion or extroversion.
2. Intelligence Test – It is a test that measures the mental ability of an individual. 
3. Aptitude Test – It is a test designed for the purpose of predicting the livelihood of an
individual's success in a learning area or field of endeavor. 
4. Achievement Test – It is a test given to determine what a    student has learned from
formal instruction in school.
5. Diagnostic Test – This test is administered to students to identify their specific
strengths and weaknesses in past and present learning. 
6. Socio-metric Test – This test is used in discovering learner's likes and dislikes,
preferences, and social acceptance, as well as social relationships that were existing in a
group. 
7. Trade Test – It is a test designed to measure an individual's skill or competence in an
occupation or vocation.