EDU 025 ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
1. Which of the following serves as the "map" or guide
to assigning the appropriate number of items.
Table of Specification
2. What is primarily measured in written tests?
Cognitive Domain
3. Why is this test item poor?
I. The test item does not pose a problem to the
examinee II. There are variety of possible correct
answer to this item III. the language used in the
question is not precise IV. The blank is near the
beginning of a sentence.
II and IV
4. Teacher A constructed a matching type test. In her
columns of items are a combination of events, people,
circumstances. Which of the following guidelines in
constructing a matching type of test did he VIOLATE?
make list of items homogenous
5. The computed r from scores in Math and Science in
0.92. What does this mean?
Math score is positively related to Science score
6. Teacher Kirsten conducted an item analysis in her
Unit examination, she found out that the difficulty
index of item 30 is 0.45 and the discrimination index is
0.33. What should she do to the item?
Retain the item
7. The computed value of r for Math and Science is
0.92. What is its interpretation?
Very high positive correlation
8. Which among the following is NOT an importance of
test specification?
it can make the test more beautiful
9. This is a true-false test item: The Hunger Games is
the best post-apocalyptic film for young viewers
because it tackles sensitive topics in a straightforward
manner without sacrificing the feeling of empathy for
the characters. What is wrong with it?
it is opinionated
10. Teacher Marga wants to establish the reliability of
her test in Araling Panlipunan. Which of the following
should she accomplish?
I. Administer a parallel test. II. Construct a variety of
items. III. Split the test. IV. Administer the same test
twice.
I, III, IV
11. Here’s a test item: “Jose Rizal was born in Calamba,
Laguna on June______, 1861.” What is wrong with the
item?
It concerns itself with trivia
12. What is the main reason why should negative
words be avoided in constructing multiple-choice type
of test?
Might be overlooked
13. Teacher Andre will construct an achievement test.
Which of the following should he accomplish first?
Identify the intended learning outcomes.

14. Teacher May wants to test her students’ ability to
formulate ideas. Which type of test should she
formulate?
Essay
15. Which statement about standard deviation is
CORRECT?
The larger the standard deviation, the more spread the
scores are.
16. Which improvement/s should be done on this
completion test item: "An example of a mammal
is________."
The question should have only one acceptable answer.
17. "_____________is an example of a leafy vegetable.
" Why is this test item poor? I. The test item does not
pose a problem to the examinee. II. There are a variety
of possible correct answers to this item. III. The
language used in the question is not precise. IV. The
blank is near the beginning of a sentence.
II and IV
18. Where does affective learning outcome focuses
more?
growth in feelings and emotional areas
19. Which of the following should be done to increase
the difficulty of a multiple-choice test item?
Make the options homogeneous.
20. Below is a list of methods used to establish the
reliability of a test. Which method is questionable due
to practice and familiarity?
Test-retest
21. If teacher Josh wants to test his students'
synthesizing skills, which among the tests has the
highest diagnostic value?
Essay test
22. Teacher Kiara got a discrimination index of 0.35 in
the test item 31 in MAKABAYAN. What does this mean?
More students from the upper group got the item
correctly than those students in the lower group.
23. Teacher Estella wrote about Renz, “When Renz
came to class this morning, he seemed exhausted and
slouched into his seat. He took no part in his class
discussion and seemed to have no interest in what was
being discussed. This was very unusual for he has been
eager to participate and often monopolizes the
classroom discussion.” Which of the following did
Teacher Marjorie do?
anecdotal report
24. A test item has a difficult index of 0.89 and a
discrimination index of 0.44. What should the teacher
do?
Retain the item
25. What does a table of test specification do in
planning a test?
A plan that provides an overview of a test.
26. In the test item below, what makes the item poor?
Overlapping options
 how much students learned which may not be used for
grading purposes is classified as a _____.
27. It is a link between content and behavior that forms
a guide for a test. Formative assessment

TOS

34. If a teacher wants to measure her students’ ability

to discriminate, which of these is an appropriate type
28. "__________ won the Best Actress award for her
of test item as implied by the direction?
portrayal of a young mentally disturbed widow who
was falling for her equally disturbed dance partner." “Group the following items according to shape.”
What is wrong with this test item?

The blank should be placed near/at the end of the

35. What is WRONG with this item?
sentence.
Test item is opinion-based

29. Which is a FALSE description of the TOS?

36. Teacher Louise found out that more from the lower
It ensures learner comprehension of the lesson.
group got item #18 correctly in the item analysis.
Which of the following best describes this instance?

30. Teacher Kyla conducted a test in Biology II, in her Negative discriminating power
item number 20, it is said to be non-discriminating.
What can be said about this item?

I. The item is very difficult that nobody got the correct 37. This is a true-false test item: "The Manila Bay
answer. II. T he item is easy, and everybody got it right. sunset is the most beautiful sunset in the world."
III. Teaching or learning is very good. What’s wrong with it?

I and II the statement is not definitely true or false

31. Which is a characteristic of an imperfect type of

matching test? 38. What is the meaning of TOS in the parlance of test
construction?
The answer/s may be repeated.
Table of Specifications
32. If a teacher wants to measure her students’ ability
to discriminate, which of these is an appropriate type
of test item as implied by the direction?
39. Which of the following statements is/are important
“Group the following items according to shape.” in developing a scoring rubric?

I. Mastery levels of achievement II. Very clear

descriptions of performance in each level III. Rating
33. Teacher Harvey conducted a short quiz after
scale IV. Description of each criterion to serve as
discussing the topic “Item Analysis” to get feedback on
standard
I, II, III, IV
40. What criteria of a matching type of test is not
observed?
the items are NOT homogeneous
41. In writing the TOS, which of the following should
teacher Mar do after determining the objectives of the
test?
Determine the coverage of the test
42. Under which assumption is portfolio assessment
based?
Portfolio assessment is dynamic assessment.
43. Teacher Andy gave a summative test. In which
competency did his students find the greatest
difficulty? In the item with a difficulty index of ____.
0.09
44. Which of the following should you do first when
planning a periodic test?
Go back to instructional objectives.
45. With the assessment of affective learning in mind,
which does NOT belong to the group?
Cloze test
46. Which of the following statements best describes
the norm-referenced interpretation?
Justin performed better in Mathematics than 85% of
his classmates.
47. Which of the following does mnemonic encourage?
remembering
48. Mr. Arevalo required his students in his
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics class to
write an essay on their roles as agents of social,
cultural, and political change in the country. To evaluate
his students’ work, he plans to use different criteria
separately, namely, content, organization,
position/stance, development/support, and grammar,
language, and mechanics. What type of rubric should
Mr. Arevalo used?
Analytic
49. Teacher Jefferson discovered that his students are
weak in grammar. Which assessment procedure should
teacher Jefferson administer to further determine in
which other skills his students are weak?
Diagnostic Assessment
50. The criterion of success in Teacher D’s objective is
that “the pupils must be able to spell 90% of the words
correctly”. Ana and 24 others in the class spelled only
40 out of 50 words correctly while the rest scored 45
and above. This means that Teacher D
failed to attain her lesson objective as far as the 25
pupils are concerned
51. Which of these are general statements about the
desired learner outcomes in a given year or within a
duration of a program?
Goals

52. Which test intends to assess the probable success
in some occupation or training course?
Aptitude Test
53. Which of the following terms refers to the quality
of an assessment instrument when it measures what it
intends to measure?
validity
54. Which of these practices power tests?
Ask students to answer increasing difficulty exam
55. Assessment is said to be authentic when the
teacher __________.
gives students real-life tasks to accomplish
56. Which of the following is a technique of
determining the reliability of the test where the same
test is administered to a group of students twice and
the correlation coefficient is determined?
Test-retest method
57. If a test item has a difficulty index of 0.08, how
would you describe the test item?
It is very difficult
58. Which of these are specific statements of learner
performance at the end of an instructional unit.\?
Educational Objectives
59. Is it wise practice to inform our students and
parents on our grading system?
Yes, so that from the very start students and their
parents know how grades re derived.
60. Which of the following objectives has the highest
level of Bloom's Taxonomy?
Improves defective test items.
61. Which error in assessment is committed by a rater
if he overate the performance of the student/s?
Generosity error
62. With grading practice in mind, what is meant by
teacher’s severity error? A teacher:
tends to give extremely low grades
63. Ms. Revadula is preparing a departmental exam in
or grade 5 pupils. She wants to make sure that her test
is reliable. What must she do?
Let a group of pupils take the test now and take it again
after some days
64. Teacher Gary wants to hold an authentic test on
their PE subject Filipino traditional games. He has
already discussed the concept of these games to his
students. Which of these is the most applicable
authentic assessment tool for his target?
organize a classroom "Palarong Pambansa
Tournament"
65. The computed value of r is -0.96 in Mathematics
and English. What does this imply?
Math and English scores are inversely related.
66. Teacher Gary wants to hold an authentic test on
their PE subject Filipino traditional games. He has
already discussed the concept of these games to his
students. Which of these is the most applicable
authentic assessment tool for his target?
organize a classroom "Palarong Pambansa
Tournament"
67. In a criterion-referenced testing, what must you do
to ensure that your test is fair?
use the objectives for the units as guide in your test
construction
68. Other than finding out how well the course
competencies were met. Teacher K also wants to know
his students’ performance when compared with other
students in the country. What is Teacher K interested to
do? ___________ evaluation
Norm-referenced
69. Teacher Jaydee gave a test at the end of the lesson
to find out if the objectives of her lesson have been
attained. This can be classified as ____.
Criterion-referenced
70. Mr. Cantillo developed an Achievement Test in
Science for her grade five pupils. Before he finalized the
test, he examined carefully if the test items were
constructed based on the competencies that have to be
tested. Which test of validity was she trying to
establish?
Content-validity
71. Which type of validity does the mock board
examination possess if its results can explain how the
students will likely perform in their licensure
examination?
Predictive
72. Which of the following is a test that measures the
individual’s potential ability to perform successfully in a
given field like music engineering etc.?
Aptitude test
73. Which of the following assessment tools aims to
detect the learning problems or difficulties of the
learners so that corrective measures can be done to
ensure learning?
diagnostic tests
74. Which of these assessment refers to assessment
that allows learners to perform or create products that
are based on real-world context.
authentic assessment
75. Which of the following is true about measurement
and evaluation?
Measurement and evaluation are part of the
assessment process.
 Summative Assessment

76. Which of the following is a technique of

determining the reliability of the test wherein the type
81. Which among the following refers to the use of
of the test item, difficulty, content, and instruction of
assessment to determine learners’ acquisition of
administration are similar but not identical and is
knowledge and skills from the instruction and whether
administered to a group of students?
they were able to achieve the curriculum outcomes?
Parallel-forms method
Assessment of Learning

77. A teacher set the following objectives for the day's

82. Which one can best evaluate students’ attitudinal
lesson: At the end of the period, the students should
development?
be able to: a.) Identify the parts of friendly letter. b.)
Construct a friendly letter using the MS Word, and c.) observation
Show interest towards the day's lesson. To assess the
attainment of the objectives, Ms. Cidro required the
students to construct friendly letter and have it
encoded at their Computer Laboratory using the MS
Word. The letter should inform one's friend about what
one has learned in the day's lesson and how one felt
83. Teacher Daniel is talking about "grading ob the
about it. Which is NOT true about the given case?
curve" in a teacher's assembly. What grading system is
Ms. Sky's assessment targets are all in the cognitive she referring to?
domain.
Norm-reference grading

78. Assessing the student’s stock knowledge and

84. Which of the following assessment tasks are least
determining the student’s ability to communicate ideas
authentic?
in coherent verbal sentences are objectives of what
assessment method? multiple-choice tests

oral questioning

85. The computed r for English and Math score is - .75.

What does this mean?
79. Which of the following conditions can a teacher-
made test ensure content validity? the higher the scores in Math, the lower the scores in
English
If its contents are identical with the content that
constitute the teacher’s instructional objectives

86. Which of the following is/are true about matching

type of test?
80. At the end of every quarter, Teacher Niel makes
sures he gives out tests that will measure the mastery I, III, and IV
of his students’ learning. What type of assessment can
he make use of?
87. Which is not true of an analytic rubric? 93. Teacher Romualdo makes sure his assessment tools
focus on what the students can do. He makes sure that
It is easier to construct than the holistic rubric
these assessment tools would cater to the needs of the
learners. He uses the principle of assessment:

88. Which of the following refers to the use of Assessment is learner-centered

assessment to identify the needs of learners in order to
modify instruction or learning activities in the
classroom. 94. What is the main advantage of using a TOS when
constructing a test?
Assessment for Learning
It improves the sampling content areas.

95. In a criterion-referenced interpretation of scores.

89. Mr. Magno Nacao is comparing measurement from
Which of the following will you most likely NOT do?
evaluation. Which statement explains the difference?
She compares every individual student's scores with
Measurement is assigning a numerical value to a given
others’ scores.
trait while evaluation is giving meaning to that
numerical value 96. If I favor “assessment for learning”, which will I do
most likely? I. Conduct a pre-test, formative and
90. Mr. Aguilar tried to correlate the scores of his
summative tests II. Teach based on pre-test results III.
pupils in the Math test with their grades in the same
Give feedback to students IV. Conduct peer tutoring for
subject last 3rd quarter. Which test validity is he trying
students in need of help.
to establish?
II, III and IV
Concurrent validity

97. The coefficient of stability of a certain test in 0.92.

91. The students of Mrs. Valino are very noisy. To keep
What does this mean?
them busy, they were given any test available in the
classroom, and then the results were graded as a way the test is highly reliable.
to punish them. Which statement best explains if the
practice is acceptable or not?
98. Teacher Rommel categorizes the students’ test
The practice is not acceptable because it violates the
scores into very high, high, average, low and very low.
principle of validity.
She practices the use of

Criterion-referenced test
92. It refers to the gathering of data based on the
administration of the assessment tool, analyzing and
interpreting the data by using statistical techniques to 99. Which type of tests is most appropriate if Teacher Y
arrive at valid results. wants to measure students’ ability to organize thoughts
and ideas?
Assessment
Extended response essay
100. Which of the following refers to the use of
assessments to help students become self-regulated
107. Which statement is true in a bell-shaped curve?
learners?
the scores are normally distributed
Assessment as Learning

108. Which can be said of Arielle who obtained a score

101. What can be said of student performance in a
of 75 out of 100 items in a Grammar objective test?
positively skewed score distribution?
Her rating is 75
most students performed poorly

102. Which is true when standard deviation is big?

scores are spread apart 109. Jerson's raw score in Mathematics class is 94
which is equal to the 97th percentile. What does this
mean?

103. Which is most implied by a negatively skewed 97% of Jerson's classmates got a score lower than 94.
score distribution?

Most of the scores are high

110. Which is implied by a positive skewed score
distribution?

104. Which measure/s of central tendency is/are the Most scores are low.
most appropriate when the score distribution is
skewed?

median 111. Which is implied by a positively skewed score

distribution?

Most of the scores are low.

105. The score distribution of Set A and Set B have
equal mean but with different standard deviations. Set
A has standard deviation of 2.80 while Set B has 112. Which of the following statements about
standard deviation of 3.30. Which statement is TRUE of standard deviation is CORRECT?
the score distributions?
The larger the standard deviation, the more spread the
Majority of the scores in Set A are clustered around the scores are.
mean than in Set B.

106. Most of the students who took the examination

got scores above the mean. What is the graphical
representation of the score distribution?

Skewed to the left

 113. Which statement best describes a negatively
skewed distribution?

The mean is lower than the median and mode.

114. What does a skewed distribution mean?

The scores are concentrated more at one end or the

other end of the normal curve.

115. Most of the scores are on the upper end of the

curve

The scores are normally distributed

Most of the students who took the Mathematics

examination got scores that are above the mean. What
is the graphical representation of the distribution?

Skewed to the left