1. The document provides guidance for planning and constructing effective tests, with a focus on multiple choice questions. It discusses writing test instructions, creating questions, selecting question types, and considerations for timing and repetition. 2. When constructing multiple choice items, the document recommends avoiding unclear terminology, vague modifiers, complex wording, trick statements, stems that reveal other answers, overlapping responses, and irrelevant details. Questions should be short and all response options should be equally plausible. 3. The document advises using "None of the above" only when the keyed answer is completely correct, and notes "All of the above" allows credit for partial knowledge.

1. SLIDE
PRESENTATION
PREPARED BY:
JOVY MAY
BARIAS

2. PRACTICAL
CONSIDERATION
IN PLANNING
TEST
INTRODUCTION

3. 1. Write Test
Instructions

4. 2. Create
Questions

5. 3. Select
Question
Type

6. 4. Considerations
for Timing &
Repetition

7. 5. Presentation of
the test
(considerations for
ordering, presenting,
and flow).

8. Multiple
Choice

9. Is a form of assessment
in which the students
select the best possible
answer/s out of the
choices from a list.

10. Constructing
Multiple
Choice Items

11. 1. Avoid
unnecessarily
unfamiliar
terminology.

12. 2. Avoid vague
qualitative modifiers
such as
many, large, much, sm
all, old, and
important.

13. 3. Avoid complex
or Awkward word
arrangements.

14. 4. Avoid trick
statements with some
minor misleading
word Or spelling
anomaly.

15. 5. Each item stem
should be as
short as possible

16. 6. Distracters
should be equally
plausible and
attractive.

17. 7. All multiple choice
options should be
grammatically
consistent with the
stem.

18. 8. Avoid stems
that reveal the
answer to
another item.

19. 9. Avoid
alternatives that
are synonymous
with, include or
overlap others.

20. 10. Avoid use of
unnecessary words
or phrases, which
are not relevant to
the problem.

21. 11. Avoid extreme
specificity
requirements in
responses.

22. 12. Use the "None of
the above" option
only when the keyed
answer is totally
correct.

23. 13. Note that use of
“all of the above”
may allow credit
for partial
knowledge.