Types of objective type test

3. True or False
Students are asked to
judge whether a factual
statement is either true
or false.

4. Matching Type
Require students to match
a series of stems or
premises to a response or
principle.

5. Multiple Choice
Which respondents are
asked to select only
correct answers from the
choices offered as a list.

6. Supply items are a name given to certain types
of assessment questions. Supply items are
named this way because students are asked to
supply the answer to a question, rather than
selecting or choosing an answer to a question.

7. Enumeration
Students chooses to
list out items, events,
ideas, or other parts
of a story/setting

8. Identification
A test where a question is
given and will be
answered merely from
pure recall with no
choices of answer.

9. Completion Type
A type of test in which
the participant is
usually required to
supply a missing
phrase, word, or letter
in a written text.

10. Simple Recall
The simple-recall test is
here somewhat
arbitrarily defined as
one in which each item
appears as a direct
question, a stimulus
word or phrase, or a
specific direction.

11. ADVANTAGE OF OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
Advantages
• Handicaps such as poor vocabulary, poor spelling, poor
handwriting, and poor grammar and the like do not adversely
affect the ability to make reply.
• Scoring is not subjective.
• Pupils like this type of test item as there is no chance for the
teacher to show personal bias or favoritism.
• Valid and Reliable
• It's easily applicable at all levels and stages of education.

12. DISADVANTAGE OF OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
Disadvantage
• It's harder to prepare.
• Does not help in nor encourage development of the ability of
students to organize or express their ideas.
• Encourage memory work even without understanding.
• It's easier to cheat.
• The organizing and writing of the questions requires expertise
and experience.