(PRE-TEST)

ASSESSMENT

The best way to assess learning is to use real-life situations, objects and materials
existing in the environment. Hence, teachers are encouraged to use:
A. Rating scale

B. Pencil-and-paper test

C. Observation technique

D. Authentic assessment

To identify learning needs and respond to it, the teacher needs to conduct what kind
of test?
A.Formative

B.Summative

C.Periodic

D.Diagnostic

At the beginning of the school year, the 6 – year old pupils were tested to find out
who among them can already read. The result was used to determine their sections.
What kind of test was given to them?
A. Diagnostic

B. Formative

C. Placement

D. Summative

Which referred to as assessment of learning?

A. Formative assessment

B. Summative assessment

C. Traditional assessment

D. Authentic assessment
An entering student in college would like to determine which vocation is best suited
for him. Which of the following test is most appropriate for his purpose?
A.Intelligence test

B.Diagnostic test

C.Achievement test

D.Aptitude test

Which objective in the affective domain is in the lowest level?

A. To accumulate examples of authenticity

B. To support viewpoints against abortion

C. To respond positively to a comment

D. To formulate criteria for honesty

In instructional planning, which among these three: unit plan, course plan, lesson
plan is/are most specific?
A. Course

B. Unit

C. Resources

D. Lesson

Following the ABCD format in writing objectives, which of the following is considered
as the CONDITION?
Provided with a copy of the sentence pattern, the students must be able to construct
declarative sentences with 95% accuracy.

A.provided with a copy of the sentence pattern

B.with 95% accuracy

C.must be able to construct declarative sentences

D.the students

Which part of the lesson development is concerned with mood setting?

Application
Generalization

Motivation

Deepening

In Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives, the domains are stated from the
lowest to the highest level. Which of the following objectives belong to the lowest
level?
A. to identify the characters in the story

B. To differentiate active from passive voice

C. To give the available resources that could be recycled to useful things

D. To explain the procedure in changing improper fraction to mixed number

Other than finding out how well the course objectives were met, Teacher K also
wants to know his students’ performance when compared with other student in the
class. What is teacher K interested to do?
A.Authentic Evaluation

B.Formative Evaluation

C.Criterion-reference Evaluation

D.Norm-reference Evaluation

Teacher Junni asked her pupils to display their penmanship work in the beginning,
middle and near the end of the school year. Which type of portfolio is displayed?
A.Showcase Portfolio

B.Evaluation Portfolio

C.Development Portfolio

D.Assessment Portfolio

Ms. Reyes advocates assessment FOR learning. Which will she NOT likely do?
A. Formative Assessment

B. Diagnostic Assessment

C. Placement Assessment

D. Summative Assessment
Which among the following objectives in the psychomotor domain is highest in
level?
A. To distinguish distant and close sounds

B. To contract a muscle

C. To run a 100-meter dash

D. To dance the basic steps of the waltz

Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessment. Which goes with
authentic assessments?
A. Decontextualized drills

B. Unrealistic performances

C. Answering multiple choices test items

D. Real world application of lessons learned

What does letter C stand for in the ABCDs of educational objectives?

A.Candidates

B.Capability

C.Condition

D.Cooperation

In writing performance objective which word is NOT acceptable?

A. Manipulate

B. Integrate

C. Delineate

D. Comprehend

At the end of every quarter, Teacher Niel makes sure he gives out tests that will
measure the mastery of his students’ learning. Which type of assessment can he
make use of?
A. Placement
B. Diagnostic

C. Summative

D. Formative

Which attribute belongs more to traditional assessment?

A. Performing a task

B. Selecting a response

C. Direct evidence

D. Real-life

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Mrs. Robles wants to establish the reliability of her achievement test in English.
Which of the following activities will help achieve her purpose?
A.Administer two parallel tests to different groups of students.

B.Administer two equivalent tests to the same group of students

C.Administer a single test but two different groups of students.

D.Administer two different tests but to the same group of students.

What is the best way to increase the reliability of a test?

heterogeneous of the student group

moderate item difficulty

increased number of test items

objective scoring

Q1 is 25th percentile as median is to what percentile?

40th

60th

50th

75th

For this item , Consider the following data obtained in a multiple choice type of item
1 where B is the correct answer.
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A B* C D

2 11 4 3 upper 27%

3 5 10 2 lower 27%

Question: Which among options A, C and D is NOT an effective distractor?

A. A and C

B. C and B

C. C only

D. D only

Which consideration of validity is best described by the question: Does the test
measure the instructional objective?
A.Construct

B.Content

C.Assessment-criterion relationship

D.Consequences

Which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of matching test?

A. An item may have no answer at all

B. An answer may be repeated

C. There are two or more distracters

D. The items in the right and left columns are equal in number

The difficulty index of a test item is one (1). What does this mean?
A.The test item is very good, so retain it.

B.The test item is very difficult

C.The test item is extremely easy.

D.The test item is not valid.

The instructions for attest are made simple, clear and concise. This is part of which
of the following characteristics of a good test?
A.Objectivity

B.Economy

C.Administrability

D.Scorability

Solve for the difficulty index of the data given below. The correct answer is the one
marked with an asterisk (*).
A B* C D

Upper Group 3 7 6 3

Lower Group 6 5 4 4

A.0.36

B.0.37

C.0.38

D.0.39

Which of the following tools described as “teacher’s blue print in test construction”?
A.table of specification

B. answer key

C. table of reliability

D .test item

Which should Ms. Barrera consider when writing a multiple – choice item?
A. The stem has irrelevant material.

B. The stem presents an unknown problem.

C. The alternatives are arranged in any order.

D. The stem and alternatives are on the same page.

An item has a discrimination index of -0.4. What does this imply?

A. The test item is easy.

B. The test item is hard.

C. There are more students from the lower group of the class who got the item right.
D. There are more students from the upper group of the class who got the item right

Study the item below. Why is this test item poor?

_____________is an example of a leafy vegetable.

I. The test item does not pose a problem to the examinee.

II. There are a variety of possible correct answers to this item.

III. The language used in the question is not precise.

IV. The blank is near the beginning of a sentence.

A. I and III

B. II and IV

C. I and IV

D. I and II

Teacher Jet Lee just finished checking the exam of her 42 students, and she wants
to analyze the items already. How will she divide the class into the upper group and
the lower group?
A B* C D

Upper Group 3 7 6 3

Lower Group 6 5 4 4

A.Divide the students into two equal groups with 21 students each.

B.Get 27% of the class and divide it into two for the upper group and the lower group.

C.Get 27% of the class for the upper group and another 27% for the lower group.

D.There is no need to divide the class because the results will be the same no matter what.

A college administrator wanted an entrance examination that can identify future

outcome or differences such as showing who will graduate from college or who will
drop out. Such a test is one that has:
A. Norm-related validity

B. Predictive validity

C. Construct validity

D. Concurrent validity
A test item has a difficulty index of .51 and a discriminating index of .25. What
should the teacher do?
A. Retain the item

B. Make it a bonus item

C. Revise the item

D. Reject the item

Which of the following test format does NOT belong to the group?
A.short answer

B.multiple choice

C.true or false

D.matching type

The discrimination index of test item is +48. What does this mean?
A.An equation number from the lower and upper group got the item correctly

B.More from the upper group got the item wrongly.

C.More from the lower group got the item correctly

D.More from the upper group got the item correctly.

In matching type tests, in which column should the premise or description be

placed?
A.Column A

B.Column B

C.Depends on the space available

D.Either of the two columns

Which is referred to as the correct answer in a multiple choice test?

A.Alternatives

B.Distracters

C.Keyed option
D.Foil

If Mr. Pagaduan will need to measure students’ learning on the topic “Self
Expression through Writing” which of the following should he use?
A.Essay Tests

B.Problem-solving tests

C.Short-answer tests

D.alternative-response tests

If the difficulty index of your test item is .98, what should you do with this item?
A.Revise it

B.Reject it

C.Retain it

D.Reserve it for another group of pupils

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Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1. To get a picture of
the group’s performance, which measure of central tendency is most reliable?
A. Median

B. Mean

C. Mode

D. None. It is best to look at the individual scores

Teacher Joy uses this graph to show individual data points connected by lines to
create a path. What type of graph does she use?
A.Bar Graph

B.Line Graph

C.Pie Graph

D.Histogram

Which one may Teacher G use if she wants to measure students’ opinions, attitudes
and values on a psychometrically controlled scale?
A. Semantic differential

B. Journal entry

C. bipolar adjectives

D. Interview

A class is composed of academically poor students. The distribution would most

likely be:
A. skewed to the right

B. leptokurtic

C. a bell curve

D. skewed to left

For mastery learning and in line with the Outcome-Based Evaluation model which
element should be present?
A. Inclusion of non-performance objectives

B.Construction of criterion-referenced tests

C. Construction of norm-referenced tests

D. Non-provision of independent learning

For diagnostic purposes which type of rubric is more appropriate?

Developmental rubric

General rubric

Holistic rubric

Analytic rubric

When original student scores are written, the teacher records ________.
A.Raw score

B.Mean score

C.Standard score

D.Percentile
What does a percentile rank of 72 mean?
A. The student’s score is higher than 72% of all students who took the test

B. The student answered 72% of the items correctly

C. 72% of those who took the test scored higher than the student

D. It is the student’s score in the test

Your percentile rank in class is 60%. What does this mean?

A.You got 40% of the test items wrongly

B.You scored less than 60% of the class.

C.You got 60% of the test items correctly.

D.You scored better than 60% of the class.

Which one is the most stable among the three measures of central tendency?
A.Mean

B.Median

C.Mode

D.Mean and median

Complete the statement:

If a student in grades 1-3 does not meet the expectations in not more than two (2)
learning areas, he ________.
A.Is promoted to the next grade level

B.Is referred to take remedial classes

C.Is retained in the same grade level

D.Fails the year level

In a grade distribution, what does the normal curve mean?

A.A large number of students receiving low grades and very few students with high grades.

B.A large number of more or less average students and very few students receiving low and
high grades.

C.A large number of student with high grades and very few with low grades.

D.All of the students have average grades

In this type skewness, you will see that there are more students who got higher
grades.
A.Normal Skew

B.Positive Skew

C.Negative Skew

D.Mode Skew

What does a high correlation coefficient say about the validity of an assessment
tool?
A.Validity is high.

B.Validity is low.

C.Validity is very high.

D.Validity is very low.

Which of these statements about grades is true?

A.They are exact measures of intelligence

B.They are intrinsic motivators for learning

C.They are exact measures for achievement

D.They are a measure of achievement.

Which one indicates a strong negative correlation?

A.-.75

B.-.10
C.-.25

D.-.15

If the computed range is low, this means:

A. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low

B. The students performed very well in the test

C. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high

D. The students performed very poorly in the test

The mean is 48 and the SD is 5. Lemuel’s score is 2 SDs above the mean? What is
his score?
53

43

58

38