MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION

1. Mr. Sampson Danquah wants to know if students scores on two test forms remain stable over a
two-week period of time. Which of the following procedures of estimating reliability would be
appropriate for this purpose?
a. Test-retest reliability
b. Internal consistency reliability
c. Equivalent forms reliability
d. Split-halves reliability

2. When assessment enables the teacher to set realistic goals and objectives for the class and
individual pupils, what purpose of assessment does it serve?
Answer: Instructional management decisions

3. A series of tasks that are used to measure a sample of students behaviour may be termed as
Test.

4. To ensure effective practice in the classroom, the teacher must check on the understanding and
also adjust the instruction to keep students on track_______ .

a. Assessment for Learning.

b. Assessment of Learning.
c. Both assessment for and of Learning.
d. Assessment as Learning.

5. Which of the following statement about assessments, measurement, testing and evaluation is
not true?
a. The concept of measurement is broader than that of testing
b. Assessment is not an aspect of teaching and learning.

6. The extent to which two raters are consistent in rating the same students is known as inter-rater
reliability.
a. False b.
True.
7. The ability to bring forward an appropriate rule generalization or principle to help solve a
problem without being prompted or reminded to do so is specified in the cognitive domain of
Blooms taxonomy as____ .
a. application.
b. evaluation.
c. synthesis. d.
analysis.

8. The assessment purpose that provides information to put students in courses and classes where
they are likely to succeed in the future is known as_________ .
 a. classification.
b. selection.
c. counselling
d. placement.

9. Which type of evaluation involves judging the worth of teaching and learning at the end of the
period of instruction?
a. measurement.
b. assessment. c.
summative. d.
formative.

10. Test scores that are highly reliable are also valid.
a. False
b. True

11. The interpretations and uses of assessment results are valid only when the educational and
social values implied by them are appropriate.
a. False. b. True

12. The process of providing information to get the right caliber of people for promotion and
administration is known as_________ .
a. classification.
b. placement.
c. certification.
d. selection.

13. Reliability is a necessary condition and a sufficient condition for validity.

a. True
b. False

14. A college conducted a test to select potential candidates for admission into undergraduate and
post-graduate programs. What type of test did the school conduct?
Answer: aptitude test
15. After marking a student exercise, a teacher wrote 90% for a student. The information can best
be described as_________ .
a. testing.
b. measurement.
c. assessment. d.
evaluation.

16. What should the classroom teacher pay attention to when measuring attribute_________ .
a. Establishing rules for quantifying attribute.
b. Identification of attribute.
c. Determining set of procedures that attribute manifest.
d. Determining tools and devices to measure attribute.

17. The table of specification is useful in test construction because it______ .

a. allows overlapping in constructing the test items.
b. reduces the tendency of the students to bluffing in their responses.
c. maximizes the unfair score distribution of the test content.
d. enables the teacher to determine the tests content validity.

18. Which of the following factors increase validity of a test?

a. Too difficult item
b. Adequate time limit
c. Ambiguous statement
d. Unclear direction

19. An observed score of a student is made of ________and ____________ .

a. true score and error score.
b. obtained score and error score.
c. true score, error score and obtained score.
d. observed score and true score.
20. The test blueprint describes topics to be covered and the number of items.
a. False
b. True

21. The characteristics of continuous assessment include except___________ .

a. summative.
b. comprehensive.
c. cumulative.
d. diagnostic.
22. Validity is the soundness of the interpretation and use of test item.
a. True
b. False

23. One of the following is not a purpose of conducting evaluation.

a. To make reliable decisions about educational planning
b. To identify problems that might hinder achievement of set goals
c. To provide subjective basis for determining promotion of students
d. To determine the relative effectiveness of a programme

24. The classroom teacher must be guided by some principles when selecting and using classroom
assessment.
a. The teacher must be sure that the selected technique serves the needs of learners.
b. The teacher must be sure that the assessment technique selected matches with each learning
target.
c. The teacher must be clear about the learning target to be assessed.
d. The teacher must consider the delimitations of the assessments technique when
interpreting the results.

25. Which of the following factors will not affect the reliability of assessment results?
a. High test difficulty level.
b. Complex wording of items.
c. Differential motivational level of examinees.
d. Uniform testing conditions.

26. The purpose of assessment that helps teachers in directing students to prepare for the careers
they select is called__________ .
a. Selection.
b. counselling.
c. classification.
d. placement.

27. A Mathematics teacher in a Senior High School gave a verbal aptitude test to 200 students. Later
the teacher compared these scores to their grades at the end of the first term of the following
year. Which category of validity evidence does this illustrate?
a. Construct-related evidence
b. Predictive validity
 c. Content-related evidence
d. Concurrent validity.

28. The role of the teachers in assessment as learning is to provide irregular and challenging
opportunities to practice.
a. True b. False

29. The process of quantifying the degree to which someone or something possesses a given trait is
called Measurement.

30. An example of ratio scale of measurement is_______ .

a. gender
b. age
c. reading success
d. socio-economic statistics

31. Which of the following variables can be measured on the interval scale?
a. Age of students in level 100 in the university
b. Scores of students in Assessment quiz 1
c. Number of students in the attendance register
d. Distance between the first-year classroom block and the assessment officer’s office

32. Inappropriate level of difficulty of the test items does not affect validity of test results.
a. True
b. False
33. The trend of classroom assessment that helps students to learn about themselves as learners
and become aware of their learning.
a. Assessment of Learning
b. Assessment as Learning
c. Assessment for Learning
d. Assessment for leaning.

34. The school-based assessment has the following purposes except________ .

a. allow teachers to do their marking and grading of test items and other assessment tasks.
b. provide reduced assessment tasks for each of the primary school subjects.
c. introduce a system of moderation that will ensure accuracy and reliability of teachers marks
d. standardize the practice of internal school-based assessment in all schools in the country.
35. The concept which finds out from examinee regarding how much was obtained from a test is
known as______ .
a. evaluation
b. testing
c. assessment
d. measurement

36. What makes continuous assessment formative?

a. It facilitates the measurement of the three domains of learning
b. It allows or constant and immediate feedback to be provided to the students on his/her
performance
c. It identifies the strengths and weakness and strength of the learners.
d. It helps teachers to assess students’ performance throughout the period of teaching and
learning.

37. The process of collecting information to make decisions concerning students, curricular and
educational policies is known as_________ .
a. assessment
b. measurement
c. evaluation
d. test

38. Which category of validity evidence is of greatest importance for an achievement test?
a. Construct.
b. Predictive.
c. Concurrent.
d. Content.

39.
a. True
b. False

40. Which of the following scores can vary across assessment of students?
a. Observed score
 b. True score
c. Both A and B
b. Error score

41. After marking exercise of a pupil, the teacher wrote well done, this expression can best be
described as___________ .
a. Assessment

b. Measurement
c. Evaluation

d. Testing

42. In assessment for learning the teacher________________ .

a. creates an environment that enables students to take risk

b. helps the students to develop self-monitoring mechanism
c. creates an avenue for students with issues concerning their results
d. keeps records for anecdotal and descriptive purposes

43. In the cognitive domain of classification of educational objectives, the ability to grasp the meaning
of material by translating it from one form to another is referred to as_____ .

a. application
b. synthesis
c. analysis
d. comprehension

44. The following are factors that can affect the validity of a test EXCEPT?

a. Too difficult reading vocabulary and sentence structure

b. Unambiguous statements in assessment task

c. Inappropriate level of difficulty of the test items

d. Fear of the assessment situation

45. The following statements establishes a relationship between measurement and assessment. Select
the statement providing the correct relationship. Measurement________ .
 a. involves the pupils but assessment is done only by teacher

b. is a continuous but assessment is done at the end of an instruction

c. is needed in other to undertake the process of assessment

d. involves figures only and assessment involves only words

46. The most appropriate method for establishing the validity of admission tests is________ .

a. Predictive validity

b. Content validity

c. Concurrent validity

d. Construct validity

47. Which of the following best defines the reliability of a test theoretically? The ratio of the________
.

a. observed score variance to the true score variance

b. true score variance to the observed score variance

c. true score variance to the observed score variance

d. true score variance to the error score variance

48. Which of the following involves a selection decision?

a. Deciding whether students should return to school after the corona pandemic

b. Registering students for the academic writing class

c. Admitting students into undergraduate programmes at UEW

d. Asking a student who is weak in mathematics to repeat a class

49. Which of the following methods of estimating reliability is a measure of internal consistency?

a. Test-retest Method

b. Split-half Method

c. Kuder-Richardson Method

d. Inter-rater Method
50. Which of the following conditions is sufficient for the validation of a classroom test in educational
assessment? Evidence that the___________ .

a. content covers what the teacher taught.

b. assessment results are reliable.

c. assessment tasks are worthy of being learned.

d. students can get all items right.