USES AND

FUNCTIONS OF
DIFFERENT
TEST

DISCUSSANT:
HONEY E. BELMONTE
 CRITERION-REFERENCE
TEST

-designed to measure a test

taker’s performance based
on a set standard or criteria.
 NORM-REFERENCE TEST

scores are used to

--

compare test takers’

progress to others in their
peer group.
STANDARDIZED TEST

-is any form of test that

requires all test takers to
answer the same questions or
a selection of questions from
common bank of questions,
in the same way and scored in
a standard or consistent
manner.
 Most common forms of
standardized test

A. Intelligence Test – measures

cognitive skills and clear-thinking
ability.
B. Personality
Test-
measures individual interest
compare to others
C. Aptitude Test –evaluates
the talent/ability/potential to
perform certain task with no
prior knowledge or training.
D. ACHIEVEMENT TEST
--measures skills and knowledge
learned in a given grade level ,
usually through planned
instruction, such as training or
classroom instruction.
E. PROFICIENCY TEST- an
exam which test how proficient
or skilled someone is in a
particular activity, field of study.
F. PLACEMENT TEST
-- used to place students into a
course, course level or
academic program.
TEACHER –MADE TEST

A. SUMMATIVE TEST – evaluate

students learning at the end of an
instructional unit by comparing it
against some standard or
benchmark.
B. DIAGNOSTIC TEST
--aform of assessment that
occurs before instruction begins
to determine what students
already know about the
concepts and skills to be
covered by instruction
C. FORMATIVE TEST- used
to monitor student learning to
provide ongoing feedback that
can be used by instructors to
improve their teaching and by
students to improve their
learning.
D. SUBJECTIVE TEST-
evaluated by giving an
opinion
E. OBJECTIVE TEST-
consisting of factual
questions requiring
extremely short answers
SOCIAL
CONSEQUENCES
OF
EDUCATIONAL
TESTING
 POSITIVE
CONSEQUENCES

1.Testing is a way of improving

schools, teaching practice and
educational methods through
data collection.
2. Assesses student progress in
multiple ways and uses the
feedback in the teaching-learning
process.
3. Test results can really
help drive curriculum
4. Test assesses whether
the person who has
applied for a role has the
required capacities.
5. Used to certify a
person.
 NEGATIVE
CONSEQUENCES
1. Tests do not cover many skills
that parents want their children to
develop including teamwork,
creativity, how to ask good
questions, how to persist with
difficult projects and how to
apply skills to real- world
challenges.
2.More schools focus
instruction on the tests.
What is not tested often
is not taught.
3. High-stakes tests are
unfair to many students.
4. Testing leads to
increased grade
retention and
dropping out .
5. Testing leads to
cheating just to get a
high test scores.
6. Using test scores as a
key component of
evaluations and merit
pay schemes may well
push many talented
teachers out of the
profession.
7. Leads to a high
financial costs by
spending in increasing
portion on the tests
resources.
8. Testing misleads the
public into thinking
schools are improving
due to the scores
inflation
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