Name: _________________________ School: ______________________

Worksheet: Planning the Test

Instructions: For each Test Planning characteristic in Column 1, provide Suggested Assessment Activities to achieve it in Column 3.
In Column 4, write the word YES if you are currently doing these suggested activities in your school, and NO if you are not.

Test Planning Description Suggested Assessment Activities Are you currently

Critical doing the listed
Characteristic suggestion/s?

Refers to the various levels of learning

Cognitive Complexity that can be tested

The test question will permit students

Content Quality to demonstrate their knowledge of
challenging important subject matter

The test questions must be worth the

Meaningfulness students' time and will allow them to
recognize and understand their value

Test items should be stated in simple,

Language clear language, free of nonfunctional
Appropriateness material and extraneous clues.

Successful performance on the test

Transfer and will allow valid generalizations and
Generalizability achievement to be made

Student performance will be measured

Fairness in a way that does not give advantages
to factors irrelevant to school learning:
scoring schemed will be similarly
equitable