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WorksheetsLET Practice Exam: Prof Ed. Assessment of Learning (Part 1)
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 8mins
1. Which goes with assessment OF learning?
A. Given at the end of a grading period
B. Guides teacher in adjusting instruction
C. Self-assessment
D. Highly reflective
2. Teacher A constructed a matching type of test. In her columns of items are a combination of events, people, and circumstances. Which of the following guidelines in constructing matching type of test did she violate?
A. List options in an alphabetical order
B. Make list of items homogeneous
C. Make list of items heterogeneous
D. Provide three or more options
3. Here is a test item: ______________is an assignment of numbers to particular traits.
Question: How will you improve this item?
A. Give a clue
B. Place the blank at the end.
C. Simplify the statement
D. Put a specific determiner
4. Which of the following should be done to lessen the chance of guessing in a true-or-false item?
A. Include an alternative statement that students can choose from
B. Provide a clue
C. Give trivial statements
D. Do a modified true-or-false test
5. Which type of test is most appropriate if a teacher wants to measure student’s ability to organize thoughts and ideas?
A. short answer type of test
B. extended response essay
C. modified alternative response
D. limited response essay
6. Which type of test measures higher order thinking skills?
A. Enumeration
B. Matching
C. Comletion
D. Analogy
7. The following are guidelines in writing multiple-choice items EXCEPT:
A. Write the options in alphabetical order
B. Avoid double negatives
C. Use a specific determiner
D. Scarcely use the options, “none of the above”, and “all of the above”
8. Which of the following should be AVOIDED on writing essay test?
A. Provide optional questions so that student will have choices.
B. Phrase each question so that pupil’s task is clearly indicated.
C. Indicate an approximate time limit for each question.
D. Create a model answer to enhance objectivity in scoring.
9. With assessment of affective learning in mind, which does NOT belong to the group?
A. Cloze test
B. Moral dilemma
C. Reflective writing
D. Diary entry
10. Which tests determine whether students accept responsibility for their own behavior or pass on responsibility for their own behavior to other people?
A. Thematic tests
B. Sentence-completion tests
C. Stylistic tests
D. Locus-of-control tests
11. Mrs. Rena is judging the worth of the project of the students in her Science class based on a set of criteria. What process describes what Mrs. Rena is doing?
A. Testing C. Evaluating
B. Measuring D. Assessing
A. Testing
B. Measuring
C. Evaluating
D. Assessing
12. How does assessment differ from evaluation?
A. Assessment is organizing data while evaluation is giving meaning to the organized data
B. Assessment is the assignment of numerical value to a certain characteristic while evaluation is the process of judging such characteristic
C. Assessment is possible without a test while evaluation requires a test
D. Assessment and evaluation are the same.
13. Which among the following tests is a direct measure of competence?
A. Personality
B. Performance
C. Paper-pencil
D. Traditional
14. In the context on the theory of multiple intelligences, what is one weakness of the pen-and-paper test?
A. It is not easy to administer
B. It puts the non-linguistically intelligent at a disadvantage
C. It utilizes so much time.
D. It lacks reliability.
15. In rating the students, Ms. Ubina examined a collection of varied evidences of her students’ achievement in Science. What mode of assessment did she use?
A. Portfolio
B. Traditional
C. Performance-based
D. Affective
16. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the traditional assessment?
A. Scoring is objective
B. Measures behavior that can’t be deceived
C. Administration is easy
D. Students can take the test on the same time
17. Which of the following is NOT a limitation of alternative forms of assessment?
A. Administration is time-consuming
B. Prone to scoring errors
C. Prone to Cheating
D. Scores tend to be subjective
18. Which of the following is a power test?
A. Licensure examination
B. Achievement test
C. Aptitude test
D. Projective test
19. How does a power test differ from a speed test?
A. Power test has more items while speed test has few items.
B. Power test has time limit while speed test is taken with ample time.
C. Power test measures accuracy while speed test measures reliability.
D. Power test has items arranged in increasing level of difficulty while speed test has items with the same level of difficulty
20. The student of Teacher Y is very noisy. To keep them busy, they were given any test available in the classroom and then the results were graded as a way to punish them. Which statement best explains if the practice is acceptable or not?
A. The practice is acceptable because the students behaved well when they were given test.
B. The practice is not acceptable because it violates the principle of reliability.
C. The practice is not acceptable because it violates the principle of validity.
D. The practice is acceptable since the test results are graded.
21. What must a teacher do to ensure the fairness of an exam in a criterion-referenced testing?
A. Make all of the questions true or false.
B. Ask each student to contribute one question.
C. Make twenty questions but ask the students to answer only ten of their choice.
D. Use the objectives for the units as guide in your test construction.
22. While she is in the process of teaching, Teacher J finds out if her students understand what she is teaching. What is Teacher J engaged in?
A. Criterion-referenced evaluation
B. Summative evaluation
C. formative evaluation
D. norm-referenced evaluation
23. Teacher G discovered that her pupils are weak in comprehension. To further determine which particular skill(s) her pupils are weak in, which test should Teacher G give?
A. Standardized test
B. Placement test
C. Diagnostic test
D. Aptitude test
24. Which is (are) (a) norm-referenced statement?
A. Kurt performed better in spelling than 75% of his classmates.
B. Kurt was able to spell 80% of the words correctly.
C. Kurt was able to spell 80% of the words correctly and spelled 35 words out of 50 correctly.
D. Kurt spelled 35 words out of 50 correctly.
25. A test item has difficulty index of 0.89 and a discrimination index of -0.44. What should the teacher do?
A. Make it a bonus item.
B. Reject the item.
C. Retain the item.
D. Make it a bonus item and reject it.
26. Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 75, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1. To get a picture of the group performance, which measure of central tendency is MOST reliable?
A. Mean
B. Median
C. Mode
D. None. It is best to look at the individual scores
27. Given the scores in a test: 86, 70, 83, 90, 85, 78, 79, 81, 86, what is the range?
A. 12
B. 15
C. 16
D. 20
28. Median is to point as standard deviation is to
A. Area
B. Volume
C. Distance
D. Square
29. Here is a score distribution: 98, 93, 93, 93, 90, 88, 87, 85, 85, 85, 70, 51, 34, 34, 34, 20, 18, 15, 12, 9, 8, 6, 3, 1.
Which is a characteristic of the score distribution?
A. Bi-modal
B. Tri-modal
C. Skewed to the right
D. No discernible pattern
30. If the mean, median, and mode of a given distribution is 20, 22, 24 respectively, the graph is most likely
A. Positively skewed
B. Negatively skewed
C. symmetric
D. rectangular
31. Most examinees obtained scores below the mean. A graphic representation of the score distribution will be
A. Negatively skewed
B. Normal curve
C. leptokurtic
D. positively skewed
32. Which is claimed to be the overall advantage of criterion-referenced over norm-referenced interpretation?
A. An individual’s score is compared with the set mastery level.
B. An individual’s score is compared with that of his peers.
C. An individual’s score is compared with the average scores.
D. An individual’s score does not need to be compared with any measure.
33. Which DOES NOT demand criterion-referenced test?
A. personalized system of instruction
B. outcome-based education
C. collaborative learning
D. mastery learning
34. Which one can help student develop the habit of critical thinking?
A. Blind obedience of authority
B. asking convergent questions
C. asking low level questions
D. willingness to suspend judgment until sufficient evidence is presented
35. The process of task analysis ends up in the formulation of:
A. instructional objectives
B. goals of learning
C. enabling objectives
D. behavioral objectives
