Assessment in Learning 2 Q1

What is the most stable measure of central tendency?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

Which measure of central tendency is NOT affected by extreme values or outliers?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

_______ anticipate student learning difficulties or areas in need of further instructions.

• Admission tests

• Placement tests

• Diagnostic tests

• Proficiency tests

When the scores are consistent, it means your test is ______.

• Objective

• Reliable

• Subjective

• Valid

Which statement can describe a positively skewed distribution of students’ performance?

• Few students got low scores

• Most of the students got average scores

• Most of the students got low scores

• The scores are normally distributed

Louie obtained a stanine score of 5 in the National Achievement Test in Mathematics. How can we describe the performance of Louie?

• Below Average

• Average

• Above Average

• Between Average and Above Average

JC obtained a NAT percentile rank if 95 in Math. This means that                  .

• JC belongs to the 95% of the group who took the test

• JC answered 95% correctly

• JC surpassed 95% of his group who took the test

• 95% of the students are better than JC

The discrimination index of a test item is 0.35. What does this mean?

• More students in the lower group got the item correctly than those students in the upper group

• More students in the upper group got the item correctly than those students in the lower group

• The number of students in the lower group and upper group who got the item correctly are equal

• More students from the upper group got the item incorrectly

The range, variance and standard deviation are all measures of ____.

• Central location

• Central tendency

• Position

• Variation

What is the technical term used for wrong answers in the choices?

• incorrects

• bogus

• distractors

• confusers