Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Schools Division of Lipa City
BULACNIN INTEGRATED NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Bulacnin, Lipa City

School Learning Action Cell

A Narrative Report

To evaluate the quality and validity of the quarterly tests being employed
among students, the BINHS teachers, together with their principal, Mrs. Angelica F.
Olaso, conducted a five-day SLAC and seminar-workshop on Test Construction and
Item Analysis including Rubrics Development at G10-Antipolo’s room last July 1-5,
2019.
On the first day, the session started with a prayer led by Mrs. Reychel
Gamboa. It was then followed by an informative talk about Test Development
Process from the resource speaker, herself, Mrs. Teresa A. Ilagan. She reiterated the
components in designing tests which include the Knowledge Dimensions namely:
factual, conceptual, procedural and metacognitive, and Cognitive Behaviors such as:
remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating based on
the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. To clearly show the application of the framework
mentioned, sample test items from Mathematics were presented to the teachers.
Meanwhile, another detailed discussion on the same topic was introduced by the
second speaker, Mrs. Bonavie T. Castilla. She emphasized the use of Bigg’s
Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) Taxonomy in improving
Multiple Choice item constructions. She made mention of the different codes from 0-4
to indicate the level of responses in Multiple Choice items using the SOLO
framework.
On the second day, the session commenced with a prayer led by Mrs. Jane
Mazo which was immediately followed by the discussion on Table of Specifications
(TOS) initiated by Ms. Amy Arellano. She highlighted that TOS should be done
before constructing a test, and ideally, before instruction begins to ensure the test
instructional validity. She also discussed different formats in making TOS namely:
One-way, Two-way and Three-way. As per DepEd instruction, the Three-way format
which was designed to reflect the features of the other two formats would be utilized.
Meanwhile, Ms. Mailyn Hernandez, being the second speaker for the day, focused
her discussion on the importance of rubrics. She presented two types of rubrics
teachers could apply in evaluating students’ performance in class.
On the third day, teachers per department were assigned rooms for a
workshop on test construction applying the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. Each
department was asked to construct five sample test items using the three-way TOS
format containing the following: the content of the lesson, list of competencies,
instructional time, number and percentage of items, level of behavior, dimension of
knowledge, and placement of items. Teachers were also instructed to get ready for
the presentation of their outputs the next day.
The fourth-day session was called to order at 3:00 pm. It started with a prayer
and was then followed by the presentation of the sample test items and TOS
teachers came up with during the workshop. The following teachers represented their
departments in sharing their outputs with the rest of the faculty members: Mrs. Diane
Morcilla for Mathematics, Ms. Renaly Magcawas for TLE, Mrs. Mary Jane Mazo for
English, Mrs. Jenny Pasajol for Science, and Mr. Jonathan Rogelio, together with Mr.
Bryan Laco, for Filipino. Teachers from other departments were tasked to give their
comments and suggestions in improving the quality of the items presented.
On the last day, the session about Item Analysis was introduced and
spearheaded by the Math Head Teacher, Mrs. Joynarose F. Permentilla. She
underscored the importance of conducting item analysis to validate test questions.
She also tackled the formula in finding the discrimination and difficulty indices, and
the interpretation of the computed values. She mentioned that only 27% of the
student total population with highest and lowest scores would be used in item
analysis. She consequently initiated an actual conduct of item analysis firstly by
asking teachers to answer a five-item test in Math. After checking the latter’s
answers, she arranged their scores in descending order. She took 27% of the total
number of respondents from the highest scores and another 27% from the lowest
scores. Applying the formula in getting the discrimination and difficulty indices, the
quality of the previously presented test items was determined as rejected or retained.
With the cooperation of all teachers in attendance, the session ended well at 4:00
pm.
Photos taken during SLAC
Day 1
Day 2

Day 3
Day 3

Day 4
Day 5

Prepared by:

Mr. Lawrence F. Delima

Mrs. Erlene Ann V. Linatoc
Ms. Rochel A. Marasigan
Mrs. Dianne D. Morcilla

Checked by:

Mrs. Joynarose F. Permentilla

Head Teacher I

Noted by:

Mrs. Angelica F. Olaso

Principal II