Cebu Normal University Medellin Campus Medellin, Cebu Final Examination In Educ.

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Name: _______________________________ Yr. & Sec.:______________ Date: ____________________ Multiple Choices: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. 1. The question/problem posed in a multiple-choice item is known as a. the stem b. the answer c. the foil d. the branch 2. How are you going to define difficulty index? a. It is the product of the means of both upper and lower 25%. b. It is the difference of the number of correct and wrong answers. c. It is the quotient of the correct answer and total number of test items in a material. d. It is the ratio of the correct answer to the total number of test takers. 3. What will be your diagnosis if you found out that the answers of your students are not consistent after giving the same test material? a. The material is not valid. b. The distribution of scores will not be fair. c. The material is not reliable. d. There is a problem in scoring. 4. You were told by your teacher to get the average difference of the individual scores from the mean. What are you supposed to compute? a. variance b. standard deviation c. percentile d. quartile 5. The teacher said The difference between the proportion of upper and lower group who got the item right is 0.6. What did he mean of? a. difficulty index b. item analysis c. discrimination index d. analysis of response options 6. What is the purpose of validation? a. to determine the characteristics of the whole test b. to extend in which a test measures what it purports c. to get the logical variable intended d. to measure consistency of the material 7. The following are rules of constructing a true-false test EXCEPT a. Avoid using the words always and never. b. Avoid specific determiners or give-away qualifiers. c. Arrange the options in alphabetical order. d. Do not give a hint. 8. Which of the following types of objective tests will the choices progressively reduce as one successfully equals the items on the other corner? a. essay b. enumeration c. matching type d. multiple choice test 9. What do you call that procedure that helps affect the halo effect in grading? a. reading b. writing c. scoring d. analyzing 10. Which of the following shows a descending order? a. Very Good, Good, Needs Improvement c. Good, Needs Improvement, Very Good b. Needs Improvement, Good, Very Good d. none of these 11. At the end of the item analysis report, test items are listed in a degree of difficulty as a. Good, Fair, Poor c. Very Good, Good, Needs Improvement b. Easy, Medium, Hard d. Very Easy, Moderately Difficult, Very Difficult 12. What is most true about multiple-choice test? a. has four options c. has one nonsensical distracter b. has a single answer d. is 100% free from response sets

13. Which of the following difficulty indices can be interpreted as easy? a. 0.3 b. 0.5 c. 0.7 d. 0.8 14. How probable will the students get the correct answer in a true-false item? a. 25% b. 50% c. 20% d. 100% 15. In which of the following test items will the students get a greater chance of answering correctly? a. a multiple-choice item with five options b. a trinomial matching-type item c. an affirmation/negation item d. an enumeration-type item 16. A test map which guides the teacher in constructing a test is called a. draft of test items b. itemized list c. interpretation table d. table of specifications 17. The word evaluate means to a. let the students work for their own b. be a part of the lesson c. measure and assess the students strengths and weaknesses d. determine the brightest in the class based from teachers point of view 18. The following are benefits derived from item analysis EXCEPT a. giving data which helps students improve their learning b. providing insights and skills that lead to the preparation of better tests in the future c. giving feedback on the effectiveness of the project d. providing useful information for class discussion of the test 19. If the validity of the material is evident in the light of the relationship between scores obtained using the instrument and scores, then the material is a. construct-related b. criterion-related c. content-related d. complex-related 20. What is the mean of the subject if the scores of the students are: 23, 45, 37, 19, 30, 49, 56, 27, 18, and 35? a. 32.5 b. 34.1 c. 33.9 d. 30.4 21. Using the same scores from item no. 20, what is the subjects median? a. 32.5 b. 34.1 c. 33.9 d. 30.4 22. How are you going to interpret an item with an index of discrimination of 0.3? a. difficult b. very difficult c. easy d. moderately difficult 23. What does the item difficulty index imply? a. The bigger the difficulty index, the greater is the difficulty of the item. b. The bigger the difficulty index, the lesser is the difficulty of the item. c. The smaller the difficulty index, the lesser is the difficulty index. d. The smaller the difficulty index, the greater is the difficulty of the options. 24. What is the purpose of finding the index of discrimination? a. To discriminate the teaching strategies being used b. To disregard the learning of the students c. To discriminate those who know the test and who dont d. To discriminate those who know the answer and who dont 25. How are you to define median of scores? a. It is the score appearing most frequently. b. It is computed by getting the average of the scores. c. It is the middlemost score. d. All of the above. 26. Inform the students on the criteria to be used for grading essays for a. it gives you the information about your grades b. it tells your performance in school c. it is in the rule that students should know what is expected by them d. it allows students to focus on relevant and substantive materials 27. What is most attractive to students who dont know the answer? a. best answer b. stem c. distracters d. whole item

28. It is necessary to evaluate answers to essay questions without knowing the identity of the writer to a. refrain from guessing the owner c. control ones anger b. keep away from personal bias scoring d. avoid scoring by the length of the answer 29. How many per cent do your knowledge questions pose in the entire material if you have 5 items out of 30? a. 20% b. 17.6% c. 16.67% d. 15. 86% 30. Statistics plays a very important role in measurement and evaluation because it allows to describe our students a. personalities b. behaviors c. interests d. performances 31. When the reliability rate of a material reaches 90 and above, it is interpreted as a. very good b. good c. excellent d. poor 32. When can we say that the reliability of a material is questionable? a. when it has a reliability rate of 50 or below b. when the students answers are not consistent c. when the coverage of the lesson is not meet d. all of the above 33. The following types of objective tests are used to test the first four to five levels of the hierarchy of educational objectives EXCEPT a. true-false b. multiple choice c. essay d. filling of blanks st 34. After computation, it was interpreted that the 1 item was easy. What might be the index of difficulty? a. 0.25 b. 0.5 c. 0.75 d. 0.81 35. It was observed that nobody chooses option B in a four-option item. What does may mean? a. The distracor was nonsensical. c. The distractor was not familiar. b. The distractor was effective. d. The distractor was not grammatical. 36. If the index range is -.55 - -.45 and can be interpreted as non-discriminating, what would be the action to be taken by teachers? a. discard b. revise c. include d. never mind 37. The random selection of the observations from the original population is called a. mean b. median c. mode d. sampling 38. When the index of discrimination is equal to -1, this means that a. all the upper 25% of the students got the correct answer b. all the lower 25% of the students got the correct answer c. all the students got the correct answer d. none of the students got the correct answer 39. What does it mean when the index of discrimination is equal to 1? a. all the upper 25% of the students got the correct answer b. all the lower 25% of the students got the correct answer c. all the students got the correct answer d. none of the students got the correct answer 40. What is the index of difficulty of an item if out of 40 students; only 10 students get the correct answer? a. 0.04 b. 0.25 c. 0.3 d. 0.4 41. When you decide the number of students who get the answer correctly by the total number of students, you are getting the a. validity b. proportion c. item difficulty d. discrimination index 42. In multiple choice tests, distracters should be attractive to those who do not know the answer. This statement is a. partly true b. false c. true d. debatable 43. What is the next thing to do after performing the item analyses and revising the items which need revision? a. construct related evidence c. reflect b. summarize d. validate the instrument 44. Which of the following is NOT a criterion in grading an essay type of test? a. coherence c. accuracy of statements b. extra points for innovative presentation d. use of new words for vocabulary purposes

45. What would be the discrimination index of an item if out of 60 students, and the number of students who got wrong are; 4 from upper 25%, and 8 from the lower 25%? a. 0.5 b. 0.6 c. 0.7 d. 0.8 46. How do test objectives help teachers in constructing an exam? a. These dictate the kind of tests that will be designed and constructed by the teacher. b. These ensure that there will be a balance of items to be constructed in the drafts. c. These speak the actual number of items to be constructed in the drafts. d. These enable the teacher to make a pattern on the answers. 47. Which of the following is the best way to state a true-false item? a. The Philippines celebrated its centennial year of independence in year 2000, since it has gained its independence in year 1898. b. Since it gained its independence in 1898, the Philippines celebrated its centennial year last 2000. c. The Philippines celebrated its centennial year of independence in year 2000. d. In year 2000, the Philippines celebrated its centennial year since it gained its independence in year 1898. 48. What is a proof that the scores are evenly distributed? a. The mean is high. c. The curve is bell-shaped. b. The material is valid. D. The material is reliable. 49. Suppose that 100 test takers took an examination. If 75 students scored lower than 82 and 6 students scored exactly equal to 82, then the percentile rank of the score equal to 82 is a. 80% b. 81% c. 82% d. 83% 50. In interpreting the discrimination index of an item, what conclusion can be drawn? a. The greater the item difficulty, the easier the item is. b. The greater the item difficulty, the harder the item is. c. The greater the item difficulty, the easier the item is. d. The greater the item difficulty, the more nonsensical the item is.