Assessment of learning

1. CHAPTER 9
CONSTRUCTED-RESPONSE
ASSESSMENT: COMPLETION,
SHORT-ANSWER, AND ESSAY ITEMS
ED-EED105 Educational Evaluative Technique
By: Jasmin May E. Tan Nery

2. CONCEPT MAP

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Know the guidelines for writing and/or selecting effective
completion, short-answer, and essay type items.
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using different
types of constructed-response items.
• Understand how to score constructed-response items.
• Be able to construct effective completion, short-answer, and essay
type items, and scoring criteria.

4. CONSTRUCTED-RESPONSE
ASSESSMENT
•defined as an assessment task that requires
students to apply their knowledge and critical
thinking skills to real-world problems
•also called as “supply-type”
•more is learned about what students know,
understand, and can do

5. TYPES OF CONSTRUCTED-RESPONSE
ITEMS
Three (3) primary considerations:
a. the nature of the targets
b. the importance of “objective” scoring
c. the effects on student studying and motivation

6. COMPLETION ITEMS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
• easy to construct
• short response time allows a
good sampling of different facts
• guessing contributes little to
error
• scorer reliability is high
• can be scored more quickly
• provide more valid results
• take a little longer to score
• if the sentence is not well
constructed, more than one
answer may be possible for each
blank, which reduces validity

7. SUGGESTIONS AND CHECKLIST:
COMPLETION ITEMS
1. Paraphrase sentences from
textbooks and other instructional
materials
2. Word the sentence so that only a
single answer is correct
3. Place blanks at the end of the
sentence
4. If answered in numerical units,
specify the unit required
5. Avoid clues to the correct answer

8. SHORT ANSWER
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
• students can respond to many
items quickly
• good sample of knowledge is
obtained
• guessing is avoided
• scoring is fairly objective
• results are generally more valid
• scoring takes longer
• more subjective than
completion or selected-
response items

9. SUGGESTIONS AND CHECKLIST:
SHORT ANSWER
1. State the item so that only one
answer is correct
2. State the item so that the required
answer is brief
3. Do not use questions verbatim
from textbooks or other
instructional materials
4. Designate units required for the
answer
5. State the item clearly with words
students understand

10. To be continue…