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The document outlines types of tests used in education, focusing on standardized and teacher-made tests, with an emphasis on objective tests and essay tests. It provides guidelines for formulating effective essay questions, including clarity, validity, and reliability, while also discussing the advantages and disadvantages of essay test items. The notes highlight the importance of careful construction and evaluation of essay questions to assess students' knowledge and critical thinking skills.

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Types of Objective Test Lesson 3.1

The document outlines types of tests used in education, focusing on standardized and teacher-made tests, with an emphasis on objective tests and essay tests. It provides guidelines for formulating effective essay questions, including clarity, validity, and reliability, while also discussing the advantages and disadvantages of essay test items. The notes highlight the importance of careful construction and evaluation of essay questions to assess students' knowledge and critical thinking skills.

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Types of

Objective Test
Lecture Notes in PrEd 146n (Assessment in Learning 1)
October 26-27, 2022
2 Kinds of Test

• Standardized test
• Made by experts (Subject specialist and knowledgeable in
formulating test items)
• Teacher-made test
• Made by a classroom teacher
2 Types of teacher-made test

• Objective test
• Scoring is not affected by the person who scores the test
Two groups of objective test
• Recall (simple recall and completion)
• Recognition (alternative response, multiple choice, matching,
rearrangement, analogy, identification
• Essay test
• Scoring may be contaminated by the biases and prejudices
of the person who scores the test
Essay test items must be
carefully worded
• It must be clear on what the teacher is asking the
student
• General statements should be avoided
• Ex: Explain poverty in Eastern Visayas
• The teacher should contextualize what on poverty in Eastern
Visayas he is asking
• Is he asking simply to describe the poverty situation in the
Region?
• Or is he asking about the causes of poverty in the Region.
Tips on how to formulate essay
questions (based on expected
answer of the students)
a. Respond in one or more sentences to a question or
problem
b. Evaluate knowledge of subject matter and skill in
writing (including testing a student’s ability to express
ideas accurately and think critically within a certain
period of time)
c. Can be evaluated in terms of form and content
5 Principles in formulating
essay test items
a. Should be planned and constructed carefully in advance. Essay test items
should not be done quickly but haphazardly. The teacher needs to critically think
about what concept he wants to test whether a student knows and can do. He
must also consider that there is a specific correct answer to the question.
b. Essay questions are distributed evenly among the lessons. Essay test questions
must be valid questions as these must emanate from the lesson(s) discussed by
the teacher.
c. Identify causes of unreliability. Essay questions should be formulated in a way
that it will not be easy for students to simply lift statements from a book or any
reference as their answer.
d. Essay questions must be vividly phrased questions for the scope to be clear to
students. Essay questions should be clearly stated for students to easily
understand them. The teacher should use terms that are not complicated
because it is not a vocabulary test.
Ways of formulating essay
questions
1. Selective recall 11. Illustrations and examples of
2. Evaluating recall principles in Science, Language, etc.
3. Comparison of two things-specific 12. Classification
4. Comparison of two things-general 13. Application of rules or principles in
5. Decision-for or against new situations
6. Cause or effect 14. Discussion
7. Explanation of the use of exact 15. Statement of aim
meaning of some phrases or statement 16. Criticism
in a passage 17. Outline
8. Summary of some unit of the test or 18. Reorganization of facts
some articles read. 19. Formulation of new questions,
9. Analysis problems and questions raised
10. Statement of relationship 20. New method or procedure
Advantages and disadvantages
of essay test items
Advantages Disadvantages
1. easy to construct 1. low validity
2. economical 2. low reliability
3. develop student skills on 3. low usability
organizing, expressing, and 4. encourages bluffing
reasoning powers 5. difficult to correct or score
4. minimize guessing 6. disadvantage for student with
5. develops critical thinking poor penmanship
6. minimize cheating and guessing
7. develop good study habits
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