This document provides guidance for a course on assessing children's development and learning. It includes an activity where students must identify whether 15 statements about constructing and scoring different types of tests are right or wrong. The types of tests mentioned include multiple choice, matching, essay, and completion tests. The document emphasizes best practices for creating unambiguous questions and response options to accurately evaluate students' knowledge.
This document provides guidance for a course on assessing children's development and learning. It includes an activity where students must identify whether 15 statements about constructing and scoring different types of tests are right or wrong. The types of tests mentioned include multiple choice, matching, essay, and completion tests. The document emphasizes best practices for creating unambiguous questions and response options to accurately evaluate students' knowledge.
This document provides guidance for a course on assessing children's development and learning. It includes an activity where students must identify whether 15 statements about constructing and scoring different types of tests are right or wrong. The types of tests mentioned include multiple choice, matching, essay, and completion tests. The document emphasizes best practices for creating unambiguous questions and response options to accurately evaluate students' knowledge.
Course, Year & Section: _______________________ Date: _________
Write T if the statement is right, otherwise write F. (2 points each)
1. Double negative statements must be provided in constructing alternative response test.
2. Essay examination is easy to score. 3. The options and distractors must be probable with others in the construction of multiple-choice tests. 4. Dates and terms should be harmonized in constructing matching tests. 5. The items in a matching test is 15 as a maximum. 6. Essay test is advantageous to students with good penmanship. 7. A balanced matching type is preferable. 8. The items of a matching test must appear in one page. 9. It is psychological to give a test before and after a holiday. 10. A periodic succession in the response samples should be observed for facility in scoring. 11. The objective test encourages cheating and guessing. 12. Essay tests train the core of systematizing, asserting and analyzing. 13. Over-mutilated statements should be included in constructing completion tests. 14. Options of a matching test must be alphabetically placed if the sequence is according to dates. 15. Statement form is preferable to direct question in simple recall.