Chapter 6: Writing Objective Test Items
1) What is an objective test items?
2) Examples of an objective test items
a) True or False
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing true or false test items
b) Matching Type
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing matching type test items
c) Multiple Choice
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing multiple choice test items
d) Completion Test
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing completion test items
3) Guidelines for writing test items
Topic: Subjective and Objective Test
Student Name: Jeejal Samo
Class: B.Ed. Hons Elementary Part (II)
Project Name: “Young Teachers' Professional Development (TPD)"
"Project Founder: Prof. Dr. Amjad Ali Arain
Faculty of Education, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Contains definitions, examples and pros and cons that will helped not only education students but also other courses.
hope this will help a lot on your study or report!
Topic: Subjective and Objective Test
Student Name: Jeejal Samo
Class: B.Ed. Hons Elementary Part (II)
Project Name: “Young Teachers' Professional Development (TPD)"
"Project Founder: Prof. Dr. Amjad Ali Arain
Faculty of Education, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Contains definitions, examples and pros and cons that will helped not only education students but also other courses.
hope this will help a lot on your study or report!
Characteristics Of A Good Test, Measuring Instrument (Test)
Validity, Nature/Characteristics Of Validity
Types/Approaches To Test Validation
Validity: Advantages And Disadvantages
Reliability, Nature/Characteristics
Types Of Reliability
Methods Of Estimating Reliability
Practicality/Usability
Objectivity
Norms
Different types of Test
Why do We give tests?
Kinds of tests
Other categories of tests
Two Types of Test (Questions)
Subjective Test Samples
Essay
Types of Essay Items
Matching type
Completion Type
This type of test differs from the completion test in degree rather than in kind. Essays usually allow greater freedom response to questions and require more writing.
Objective Type Items, Recognition Type Items and Recall ItemsDr. Amjad Ali Arain
Topic: Objective Type Items, Recognition Type Items and Recall Items
Student Name: Munazza Mohsin Samo
Class: B.Ed. (Hons) Elementary
Project Name: “Young Teachers' Professional Development (TPD)"
"Project Founder: Prof. Dr. Amjad Ali Arain
Faculty of Education, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Chapter 6: Writing Objective Test Items
1) What is an objective test items?
2) Examples of an objective test items
a) True or False
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing true or false test items
b) Matching Type
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing matching type test items
c) Multiple Choice
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing multiple choice test items
d) Completion Test
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing completion test items
3) Guidelines for writing test items
Characteristics Of A Good Test, Measuring Instrument (Test)
Validity, Nature/Characteristics Of Validity
Types/Approaches To Test Validation
Validity: Advantages And Disadvantages
Reliability, Nature/Characteristics
Types Of Reliability
Methods Of Estimating Reliability
Practicality/Usability
Objectivity
Norms
Different types of Test
Why do We give tests?
Kinds of tests
Other categories of tests
Two Types of Test (Questions)
Subjective Test Samples
Essay
Types of Essay Items
Matching type
Completion Type
This type of test differs from the completion test in degree rather than in kind. Essays usually allow greater freedom response to questions and require more writing.
Objective Type Items, Recognition Type Items and Recall ItemsDr. Amjad Ali Arain
Topic: Objective Type Items, Recognition Type Items and Recall Items
Student Name: Munazza Mohsin Samo
Class: B.Ed. (Hons) Elementary
Project Name: “Young Teachers' Professional Development (TPD)"
"Project Founder: Prof. Dr. Amjad Ali Arain
Faculty of Education, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Chapter 6: Writing Objective Test Items
1) What is an objective test items?
2) Examples of an objective test items
a) True or False
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing true or false test items
b) Matching Type
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing matching type test items
c) Multiple Choice
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing multiple choice test items
d) Completion Test
• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Suggestions for writing completion test items
3) Guidelines for writing test items
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Chapter 6: Writing Objective Test Items
1. Graduate School
EDUC 243 – Educational Evaluation
2nd Semester
School Year 2016-2017
Narrative Report
Chapter 6: Writing Objective Test Items
1) What is an objective test items?
2) Examples of an objective test items
a) True or False
Advantages & Disadvantages
Suggestions for writing true or false test items
b) Matching Type
Advantages & Disadvantages
Suggestions for writing matching type test items
c) Multiple Choice
Advantages & Disadvantages
Suggestions for writing multiple choice test items
d) Completion Test
Advantages & Disadvantages
Suggestions for writing completion test items
3) Guidelines for writing test items
Submitted to:
DR. JAMES L. PAGLINAWAN
Professor
Submitted by:
SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN
EDUC 243 Student
2. Writing Objective Test Items 2nd Sem. S.Y. 2016-2017
SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 2
What is an objective test?
measure both your ability to remember facts and figures and your
understanding of course materials.
What are the examples of an objective test items?
1) True or False
2) Matching Type
3) Multiple Choice
4) Completion Test
What is true or false test items?
are quick & easy to write ,…but good true-false items are not that easy to write.
consider the following true-false items.
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING TRUE OR FALSE TEST ITEMS:
1. True or false test should be clearly explained before students begin the test.
Example:
Directions: Read each of the following statements. If the statement is true,
underline the word True. If the statement is false, underline the word False.
True False 1.The green coloring material of the
plant leaf is called chlorophyll.
True False 2. Petal and sepal are two
synonymous word.
2. Construct statements that are definitely true or definitely false, w/o additional qualifications.
This will avoid students from being confused because of wrong usage of words.
Example of POOR Statement:
The vice-president of the Phils. is elected to that province only. True/False?
The vice-president of the Phils. is elected nationwide. True/False?
3. Use relatively short statements. The shorter the statements are, the better the understanding
will be done.
Example of POOR statement:
a. Aristotle thought that a falling object’s acceleration & speed depended on its
mass. While Galileo disagreed & said that all objects fall w/ the same
acceleration regardless of their weight/mass. TRUE/FALSE? (Poor)
b. Aristotle’s view of science differs from Galileo’s. TRUE/FALSE? (Better)
4. Keep true & false statements approximately the same length. Some statements have tendencies
to be longer to be absolutely true & false.
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SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 3
5. Avoid using double- negative statements.
6. Avoid the following:
a. Verbal clues, absolutes, & complex sentences.
b. broad general statements, usually not true/false w/o clarification
c. Terms denoting indefinite degree (e.g., large, long time, regularly), absolutes
(e.g., never, only, always)
d. Placing items in systematic order (e.g., TTFF, TFTF, & so on);
e. taking statements directly from the text & presenting them out of context.
ADVANTAGES OF TRUE-FALSE ITEMS:
1. Because T-F questions tend to be short, more material can be covered than with
any other item format. Thus, T-F items tend to be used when a great deal of
content has been covered.
2. T-F questions take less time to construct, but avoid taking statements directly
from the text and modifying them slightly to create an item.
3. Scoring is easier with T-F items, but avoid having students write “true” or ‘false”
or a “T” or “F”. Instead, have them circle “T” or “F” provided for each item.
DISADVANTAGES OF TRUE-FALSE ITEMS:
1. Although sometimes complex questions can be asked using T-F items.
2. T-F questions presume that the answer to the question or issue is unequivocally
true or false. It would be unfair to ask student to guess at the teacher/s criteria for
evaluating the truth or statement.
3. T-F questions allow for and sometimes encourage a high degree of guessing.
Generally, longer examinations are needed to compensate for this.
Matching Type
Consist of a column of key words on the left side of the page
Column of options on the right side of the page
Where students are required to match the options associated w/a given key
word/s
Keywords:
Column A Column B
Premises Responses
_____1. Person who provides schooling for children A. Facilitator
_____2. Person who enables a group to find a solution B. Tutor
_____3. Persons who instructs adults in a classroom. C. Trainer
D. Teacher
Faulty problem of the matching item:
Homogeneity
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SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 4
Order of Lists
Easy Guessing
Poor Directions
Too Many Correct Responses
Ambiguous Lists
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING MATCHING ITEMS:
1. Keep questions & options short & homogeneous. This is the most violated tip.
Homogeneity is a matter of degree and what is homogeneous to one group may
be heterogeneous to another.
2. Make sure that all the options are plausible (believable) distractors for each
description to ensure homogeneity of lists.
3. Use longer phrases as questions 7 shorter phrases as options. Longer
premises are really helpful because it explains the statement while shorter
premises make the answer in an objective mode.
4. Keep questions & options short & homogeneous. This is the most violated tip.
Homogeneity is a matter of degree and what is homogeneous to one group may
be heterogeneous to another.
5. Make sure that all the options are plausible (believable) distractors for each
description to ensure homogeneity of lists.
6. Use longer phrases as questions 7 shorter phrases as options. Longer
premises are really helpful because it explains the statement while shorter
premises make the answer in an objective mode.
ADVANTAGES OF MATCHING ITEMS:
1. Matching Type items are usually simple to construct and score.
2. Matching Type items are usually suited to measure associations between facts.
3. Matching questions can be more efficient than Multiple Choice questions because
they avoid repetition of options in measuring of associations.
4. Matching questions reduce the effects of guessing
DISADVANTAGES OF MATCHING ITEMS:
1. Matching questions tend to ask students trivial information.
2. They emphasize memorization.
3. Most commercial answer sheets can accommodate no more than five options,
thus limiting the size of any particular matching item.
Multiple Choice
5. Writing Objective Test Items 2nd Sem. S.Y. 2016-2017
SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 5
Used to measure knowledge outcomes & other types of learning outcomes.
Student choose one answer from a number of choices supplied.
Most commonly used format in measuring student achievements in different
levels of learning.
Multiple choice question is consists of :
Stem – text of the question
Options – choices provided after the stem
The key – correct answer in the list of options
Distracters – incorrect answers in the list of options
Http://Theelearningcoach.Com/Elearning_design/
Rules-for-multiple-choice-questions/
SUGGESTION FOR WRITING MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. Include as much of the item possible, keeping the response options as short as
possible. However, include only the material needed to make the problem clear
and specific. Be concise – don’t add extraneous information.
2. Be sure that there is one and only one correct or clearly best answer.
3. Eliminate unintentional grammatical clues, and keep length and form of all the
answer choices equal. Rotate the position of the correct answer from item to item
correctly.
4. In most cases it is more important for the student to know what a specific item of
information is rather than what it is not.
5. Include from 3-5 options (2-4 distractors plus one correct answer) to optimize
testing for knowledge rather than encouraging guessing. It is not necessary to
provide additional distractors for an item simply to maintain the same number of
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SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 6
distractors for each item. This usually leads to poorly constructed distractors that
add nothing to test validity and reliability.
6. To increase the difficulty of a multiple-choice item, increase the similarity of
content among the options.
7. Use the option “none of the above” sparingly and only when the keyed answer
can be classified unequivocally as right or wrong. Don’t use this option when
asking for a best answer.
8. Avoid using “all of the above”. It is usually the correct answer and makes the
item too easy for the students with partial information.
ADVANTAGES OF THE MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEM:
1. M-C questions have considerable versatility in measuring objectives from the
knowledge to the evaluation level.
2. Since writing is minimized, a substantial amount of course material can be
sampled in a relatively short time.
3. Scoring is highly objective, requiring only a count of the number of correct
responses.
4. M-C items can be written so that students must discriminate among options that
vary in degree of correctness. This allows students to select the best alternative
and avoids the absolute judgments found in true-false items.
5. Since there are multiple options, effects of guessing are reduced.
6. M-C items are amenable to item analysis, which permits a determination of which
items are ambiguous or too difficult.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEM:
1. Can be time consuming to write
2. If not carefully written, M-C questions can sometimes have more than one
defensible correct answer.
Completion Test
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SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 7
An objective type of test that includes series of sentences which certain important words of
phrase has been omitted for the pupils to fill in a sentence may contain one or more blanks and
the sentences may be disconnected or organized into a paragraph. Each blank counts one
point.
SUGGESTION FOR WRITING COMPLETION TEST:
1. If at all possible, items should require a single-word answer, or a brief and definite
statement. Avoid statements that are so indefinite that they may be logically answered
by several items.
POOR ITEM: World War II ended in ______.
BETTER ITEM: World War II ended in the year _____.
2. Be sure the question or statement poses a problem to the examinee. A direct
question is often more desirable than an incomplete statement (it provides more
structure.)
3. Be sure the answer that the student is required to produce is factually correct. Be
sure the language used in the question is precise and accurate in relation to the subject
matter area being tested.
4. Omit only key words; don’t eliminate so many elements that the sense of the content
is impaired:
POOR ITEM: The ____ type of test items is usually more ____ than the _____type.
BETTER ITEM: The supply type of test item is usually graded less objectively than the
_____ type.
5. Word the statement such that the blank is near at the end of the sentence rather than
near the beginning. This will prevent awkward sentences.
6. If the problem requires a numerical answer, indicate the units in which it is to be
expressed.
ADVANTAGES OF THE COMPLETION TEST:
1. Construction of a completion question is relatively easy.
2. Guessing is eliminated since the question requires recall.
3. Completion questions take less time to complete than multiple-choice items, so
greater amounts of content can be covered.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE COMPLETION TEST:
1. Completion questions usually encourage a relatively low level of response
complexity.
2. The responses can be difficult to score since the stem must be general enough
so as not to communicate the correct answer. This can unintentionally lead more
than one defensible answer.
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SHELAMIE M. SANTILLAN – MAED Student 8
3. The restriction of an answer to a few words tends to measure the recall of
specific facts, names, places, events as opposed to more complex behaviors.
GUIDELINES FOR WRITING TEST ITEMS
1. Begin writing items far enough in advance that you will have time to revise it.
2. Match items to intended outcomes at the proper difficulty level to provide a valid
measure of instructional objectives. Limit the question to the skill being assessed.
3. Be sure each item deals with an important aspect of the content area and not
with the trivia.
4. Be sure that the problem posed is clear and unambiguous.
5. Be sure that each item is independent of all other items. The answer to one item
should not be required as a condition for answering the next item. A hint to one
answer should not be embedded in another item.
6. Be sure the item has correct or best answer on which experts would agree.
7. Prevent unintended clues to the answer in the statement or question.
Grammatical inconsistencies such as a or an give clues to the correct answer to
those students who are not well prepared for the test.
8. Avoid replication of the textbook in writing test items, don’t quote directly from
textual materials. You’re usually not interested in how well the student
memorized the text. Besides, taken out of context, direct quotes from the text are
often ambiguous.
9. Avoid trick or catch questions in an achievement test. Don’t