Alternate Choice Items-

True or False
 What is Alternate Choice Items?
• Presents preposition for which one of two opposing options represents the
correct response
• True or False
• response option are not limited on true or false.
• options to an alternate choice item always come in pair .
• each option represent n opposite of the other.
 Variations of Alternate Choice Item
1. Traditional True or False – a single statement made usually consisting of
sentence
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terrible reputation
2. True or False Items Requiring Corrections
- a true or false
item that requires student to
rewrite the false item as correct statements
3. Embedded Alternate Choice Items- series of Alternate Choice Items
can
be embedded in a paragraph.
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4. Multiple True or False Items- a conventional multiple choice items

consists of stem and a list of option

- allows student
to select the best answer among
series of option
5. Sequential True or False – presented in sequence
- correct answers of
each item are dependent in
previous items

6. Focused Alternate- Choice Item- a conventional true or false item

requires students to classify a

proposition a
true or false.
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 Advantages of Alternate Choice Items
1. Alternate Choice Item allow a more adequate sampling of content?
- a substantial number of alternate choice item can be included in a single
test.
- students can answer twice the number of alternate choice item versus
multiple choice or short answer.
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2. Alternate-Choice Item are relatively easy to construct.
- do not require construction of scoring plans.
-items can be produced within a period of time.
3. Alternate-Choice Item can be efficiently scored.
- as with multiple choice format, alternate choice item can be quickly scored
by hand or a machine .

4. Response to alternate-choice item are objectively scored.

- a short answer are subjectly scored.
- Two students are assign different scores to a give answers.
 Limitations of Alternate Choice Item
1. Alternate choice item are susceptible to guessing.
- the probability that student give correct response from a blind guess is
50%.
- increasing the number of items in a test will control the guessing answer
of student in alternate choice item.
- Guessing reduce the reliability of alternate choice items.
2. Alternate Choice items can be used only when dichotomous answers
represents sufficient response options.

- Many statements cannot be answered by YES or NO or a TRUE or

FALSE.
- Alternate Choice Item must be answered without qualification.

3. Alternate-Choice Item usually must indirectly measures performance

related to procedural knowledge.
- Because the teacher cannot directly see what a student knows or thinking.
 Identifying Qualities Desired In Alternative
Choice Item
1. Alternate Choice Items: must be constructed or selected to
measure the knowledge skill of the students.
2. Alternate Choice Items: must relevant to the abilities and
capabilities of the students.
Ex. Reading skills is the limits capability of the students.
3. Alternate Choice items: The quality is relevant to all variations
of Alternate Choice Item.
- We must construct two ideas but the reliability of the test is not
affected by guessing.

4. Alternate Choice Items: Should always state a single

proposition. Since it is answerable by TRUE or FALSE.
5. Alternate Choice Items: Should be simple and possible.

6. Alternate Choice Items: The words are underlined and

emphasise clearly to avoid ambiguity.

7. Alternate Choice Items: Should be definite in meaning.

8. Alternate Choice Items: Should avoid use the words with
absolute meaning frequently.

9. Alternate Choice Items: Must response plausible because

people often believe that true or false items are limited to
measuring recall of information.