Guidelines During

the Examination
1. Do not give instruction or avoid
talking while examination is going
on and minimize interruptions and
distraction.
2. Avoid giving hints.

3. Monitor to check student

progress and discourage cheating.
4. Give time warnings if student
are not pacing their work
appropriately.
5. Make a note of any questions
students ask during the test so
that the items can be revised for
future use.
Guidelines After the
Examination
After the examination, the next activity
that the teacher needs to do is to score
the test papers, records the result of the
examination, return the test papers and
last to discuss the test items in the class
so that you can analyze and improve
the test items in the future use.
1. Grade the papers (and add comments if you
can); after scoring and before returning papers
to students if at all possible. If it is impossible
to do your test analysis before returning the
papers, be sure to do it at another time. It is
important to do both the evaluation of your
students and the improvement of your test.
2. If you are recording grades scores,
record them in pencil in your class
record before returning the papers. If
there are errors/ adjustments in
grading they(grades) are easier to
change when recorded in pencil.
3. Return papers in a timely
manner.
4. Discuss the test items with the
students. If students have question,
agree to look over their papers
again, as well as the papers of others
who have the same question.
ANALYZING THE
TEST
• When do we consider that the test is
good?
• How do we evaluate the quality of each
item in the test?
• Why it is necessary to evaluate each item in
the test?
Lewis Aiken (1997) an author of psychological and
educational measurement pointed out that a
“postmorten” is just a necessary in classroom
assessment as it is in medicine.
In this section, we shall introduce the
technique to help teachers determine the
quality of a test item known as item analysis.
One of the purposes of item analysis is to
improve the quality of the assessment tools.
There are two kinds of item analysis,
quantitative item analysis and qualitative
item analysis(Kubiszyn and Borich,2007).
 ITEM ANALYSIS

• Process of examining the students response to

individual item in the test. It consist of different
procedures for assessing the quality of the test
items given to the students.
• Uses of item analysis
• 1. Item analysis data provide a basis for efficient class
discussion of the test results.
• 2. Item analysis data provided a basis for remedial work.
• 3. Item analysis data provide a basis for general
improvement of classroom instruction.
• 4. Item analysis data provide a basis for increased skills
in test construction.
• 5. Item analysis procedures provide a basis for
constructing test bank.
 Packaging and Reproducing Test Items

Assuming that you have already assembled the test,

you write the instructional objectives, prepare the table
of specification, and write the test items that
match with it the instructional objectives, the
next thing to do is to package the test and
reproduce as discussed in the previous chapter.
1. Put the items with the same format
together.
2. Arrange the test items from easy to
difficult.
3. Give proper spacing for each item for
easy reading.
4. Keep question and options in the same
page.
5. Place the illustration near the options.
6. Check the key answer.
7. Check the direction of the test.
8. Provide space for name, date and score.
9. Proofread the test.
10. Reproduce the test.