2. TYPES OF TESTS ITEMS
Course Code: 8602 (Educational Assessment and
Evaluation)
Unit #4
Presented By:
Abdul Ghafoor Awan (Subject Specialist) English.
M.Phil (Education)
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3. Students have to select correct
option/answer from a given choices
Multiple Choice
Questions
Matching items
True/False
4.
5. Which is the capital city
of Pakistan?
A. Paris
B. Lisbon
C. Islamabad
D. Rome
The capital city of
Pakistan is:
A. Paris.
B. Lisbon.
C. Islamabad.
D. Rome.
6. Important Facts
Use Simple Language
Make the Questions Brief and Clear
Avoid Asking Negative Questions
Offer an Appropriate Numbers of Distracters
7. Effective
Versatile
Reduced Guessing
Can cover broad range
of content
Difficulty of Construction
8. A True-False test item requires the student to determine
whether a statement is true or false.
Also known as a “binary-choice” item.
9. Easy to construct
Easy to score
Helpful for poor students
Assess lower order
thinking skills
Poor representative of
students learning
achievement
10. Consist of :
(i) Column of premises
(ii) Column of responses
11. Terms with definitions
Phrases with other phrases
Causes with effects
Parts with larger units
Problems with solutions
12. Factual information can
be tested
Valuable in content
areas that have a lot of
facts
Time consuming for
students
Not good for higher levels
of learning
13. Students have to provide correct
answer
Completion
items
Short answers
Essay Type
14. Answer is needed to complete the sentence.
These are also known as “Gap-Fillers.
15. Student supplies a response to a question
Most effective for assessing knowledge and
comprehension learning outcomes
16. Easy to construct
Minimizes guessing
May overemphasize
memorization of facts
Scoring is laborious
17. Measure the students' higher order thinking skills,
such as applying, organizing, synthesizing,
integrating, evaluating, or projecting while at the
same time providing a measure of writing skills.
18.
19. Reduce guessing
Easy to construct
Allows students to
demonstrate ability to
organize knowledge,
express opinions,
show originality.
Time consuming to
score.