The document discusses two types of tests in education: objective and essay type tests. Objective tests are defined by specific scoring rules that minimize subjective judgments, making them easy to score but time-consuming to prepare, while essay type tests allow for longer, structured responses that assess critical thinking and creativity. Each test type has its advantages and disadvantages, impacting how student abilities are measured and evaluated.

2. OBJECTIVE & ESSAY TYPE
TEST
BY-
PREETI SHARMA
MSC. NSG. 1ST YR.

3. OBJECTIVE TEST

4. DEFINITION
•It is generally call for single words, phrases,
numbers, letter and other symbols as response to
items.
•It is defined as one for which the scoring rules
are so specific that they do not allow scores to
make subjective inferences or judgments.

5. CATEGORIES/ TYPES
SELECTED
RESPONSE
TEST
CONSTRUCTED
RESPONSE
TEST

6. SELECTED RESPONSE TEST

7. CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEST
IDENTIFICATION
ENUMERATION
COMPLETION
TYPE
LABELLING
SIMPLE
RECALL

8. ADVANTAGES
Easy for scoring.
Objectivity in scoring.
It will not vary from time to time or from
examiner to examiner.
 Greater reliability and better content validity.
 It takes less time saves a lot of time of the
scores.
 It eliminate extraneous factors such as speed
of writing, neatness, literacy style etc.

9. DISADVANTAGES
Takes a lot of time & effort in preparing the test.
 provide little or no opportunity for measurement of
students ability to organize and to express thoughts.

10. ESSAY TYPE QUESTION

11. INTRODUCTION
• Education choose essay question over other
forms of assessment because essay items
challenge students to create a response rather
than to simply select a response.
• Some educators use them because essay have the
potential to reveal students abilities to reason,
create, analyse, synthesize and evaluate.

12. DEFINITION
• An essay type test presents or more questions or
other tasks that require extended written responses
from the person being tested.
- Robert L.E & David A.F
• It requires the student to structure a long written
response upto several paragraphs.
- William W & Stephen GJ

13. FEATURES
• Questions are should both as formative and
summative assessments.
• They require a great deal of thought and planning.
• Students prepare their own answers.
• They evaluate knowledge areas alone.
• Students handwriting, spelling, neatness, organization and
way of expressing ideas may be considered while scoring
the items.
• No single answer is permitted freedom of response.

14. PRINCIPLES
 Do not give too many lengthy questions.
 Avoid phrases.
 Questions should be well structured with specific
purpose or topic at a time.
 Words should be simple, clear and carefully
selected.
 Do not allow too many choices.

16. TYPES /FORM OF ESSAY TEST
• Restricted Response/ Controlled Response.
• Extended Response/Uncontrolled Response.
Restricted Response Extended Response

17. Restricted Response Essay Questions
Restricted response usually limits both the
content and the response by restricting the
scope of the topic to be discussed.
Useful for measuring learning outcomes
requiring interpretation and application of
data in a specific area.

18. EXAMPLE:-
1. Mr. Rogers a ninth grade science teacher,
wants to measure his student ‘ ability to interpret
scientific data’ with a paper pencil test
• Describe the steps that Mr. Rogers would
follow
• Give reasons to justify each steps.

19. Extended Response Essay Questions
Extended response question allows student to
select information that they think is pertinent, to
organize the answer in accordance with their
best judgment, and to integrate and evaluate
ideas as they think suitable.
They do not set limits on the length or exact
content to be discussed.

21. ADVANTAGES
• The freedom of response allowsthe student to
express himself in his own words.
• It helps students to improve their writing skills such
as writing speed.
• It encourages creativity by allowing their own
unique way.
• It encourages good study habits in students.
• It does not encourage guessing and cheating during
testing.

22. DISADVANTAGES
• Scoring is not reliable because different examiners
can grade the score answer differently. In fact, the
same examiner can grade the same question
differently at different times.
• Grading of essay tests is time-consuming.
• Subjective scoring of essay questions.
• Essay questions do not cover the course content and
the objectives as comprehensively as possible.

23. SUMMARY