Northwestern Visayan Colleges

College of Education
Kalibo, Aklan

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Test Questions in Assessment of Student Learning 1

Prepared by: RHODA S. DE JUAN, B.E.ED. III-A
Testing, Assessment and Educational Decisions
Name: __________________________ Major/Yr./Sec ___________ Class Schedule ________

Test I. Multiple Choice (15 pts.). Encircle the letter that best answers the statement or
question.
1. It is the process of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data.
a. Checking
c. Assessment
b. Testing
d. Educational decisions
2.
3. The scoring procedures must be clear to both teacher and students.
a. Time limits
c. Scoring procedure
b. Arrangement of items
d. Length of the instrument
e.
4. Defined as the administration and use of the test and its results in order to make
educational decisions.
a. Testing
c. Educational decisions
b. Assessment
d. Criteria
e.
5. An assessment instrument is reliable if it yields consistent result.
a. Objectivity
c. Discrimination
b. Reliability
d. Relevance
e.
6. The instructional objectives must be spelled out clearly in a table of specification.
a. Arrangement of items
c. Objectives to be sampled
b. Type of measuring procedure to
d. Range of difficulty of items
use
e.
7. The assessment instrument should be fair.
a. Balance
c. Relevance
b. Efficiency
d. Fairness
e.
8. The discriminating power of an item means the item can distinguish high performers
from low performers.
a. Discrimination
c. Relevance
b. Difficulty
d. Balance
e.

9. If the teacher will use systematic observation, he/she can utilize any or a
combination of these items: observation guide, checklist, scoring guideline, or rating
scale.
a. Objective to be sampled
c. Scoring procedures
b. Type of measuring procedure to
d. Length of the instrument
use
10.
11. Results of assessment should be recorded and reported to students, parents, and
other stakeholder if needed.
a. Discrimination
c. Method
of
recording
and
b. Fairness
reporting results
d. Scoring procedures
e.
12. The behavior indicators to be assessed are spelled out specifically.
a. Objectives to be sampled
c. Specificity
b. Objectivity
d. Reliability
e.
13. The difficulty of items is determined by the percentage of passing an item.
a. Reliability
c. Time limits
b. Efficiency
d. Difficulty
e.
14. In paper and pencil test, test items should have difficulty indices ranging from
0.40 to 0.60.
a. Time limits
c. Range of difficulty of items
b. Length of the instrument
d. Arrangement of items
e.
15. It is advisable to begin the test with easy items and end it with difficult ones.
a. Arrangement of items
d. Type of measuring procedure to
b. Scoring procedures
use
c. Range of difficulty of items
e.
16. An assessment instrument has relevance if the test items and the learning objective
match.
a. Efficiency
c. Fairness
b. Objectivity
d. Relevance
e.
17. It is allowed for students to answer one item for one minute.
a. Length of the instrument
c. Time limits
b. Arrangement of items
d. Range of difficulty of items
e.

f. Test II. True or False (5 pts.). Write T if the statement is correct and write F if
the statement is wrong. Write your answer in the space provided.
g.
h. F 1. Old teachers should not only be limited on how to construct test items.
i.
j. T 2. Assessment is an important tool to improve the teaching learning process.
k.
l. F 3. At the end of the lesson, the purpose of assessment is undoubtedly
diagnostic.
m.
n. F 4. Before the instruction, the teacher should find out how the students are
progressing.
o.
p. T 5.The teacher should not be satisfied with her/his instruction until mastery of
the objective is attained by most of the class.
q.
r. Test III. Enumeration (15 pts.)
s.
A. 7 Competencies in assessment that possess by the good teachers
1. Selecting appropriate methods
2. Developing appropriate assessment tools
3. Administering, scoring, interpreting assessment
4. Applying assessment data in instruction
5. Establishing student grading procedures
6. Communicating assessment results
7. Employing assessment in legal and ethical manner
t.
B. 8 Types of Decisions Teachers and Administrators Make
1. Instructional
2. Grading
3. Diagnostic
4. Selection
5. Placement
6. Guidance and Counseling
7. Program/Curriculum
8. Administrative Policy
u.
v. Test IV. Essay (5 pts.)
w.
Differentiate testing from assessment.
x. Testing is defined as the administration and use of test and its results in order to
make educational decisions while the assessment is the process of gathering,
analyzing, and interpreting data.