🎯Learning Outcomes: 

    

        At the end of this lesson, the students are expected to:

  Demonstrate understanding by providing a checklist in constructing a Matching Type

test.
 Discuss the pointers in crafting the Matching Type test.
 Present the advantages and disadvantages of MTT.
 Explain the different types of MTT.

This matching-type test is similar to the multiple-choice test. In this kind of test, the examinee
associates an item in one column with a choice in the second column. Reganit et al. (2010)
provided the checklist for writing the Matching -Type Test.

Checklist for Writing Matching-Type Test

FACTORS YES
1.   Have you given the student clear, explicit instruction? ✔
2.   Are the response and premise lists both homogenous? ✔
3.   Is one list shorter than the other? ✔
4.   Are both lists between 5 to 15 entries? ✔
5.   Are the premises longer and more complex? Are the responses simple and short? ✔
6.   Are the responses arranged in a systematic order? ✔
7.   Are both lists relatively free of clues? ✔
8.   Do both lists appear on the same page? ✔
 

Pointers on Writing Matching-Type Tests (Cresencia Laguerta, 2014)

1. The response list should consist of short phrases, single words, or numbers.
2. Use homogenous options and items.
3. Have more options than the given items.
4. Arrange the options and items alphabetically.
5. Limit the number of items within each set.
 6. Place the short response in column B and allow the students to read the longer items
first in column A.
7. Provide complete directions.
8. Place the list of options on the same page as the list of items.
9. Avoid specific determiners and trivial information that can help the students find the
correct response without any effort on their part.
10. Clearly explain the bases on which the match is to be made.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Matching Type Test

                                                               (Source Reganit, 2014)

Advantages Disadvantages
1. The matching-type test is simple to
1. Tends to ask students to associate trivial
construct and score.
information.
2. It reduces the effects of guessing,
2. In the case of commercial answer
although the chance of guessing
sheets, matching items can
increases as the student progresses in
accommodate no more than five
answering items.
options.
 
 

 Types of Matching-Type Tests (Ronaldo Elicay, 2014)

1. Perfect Matching – it happens when an option is the only answer to one of the items in
column A.
2. Imperfect Matching – it happens when an option is an answer to more than one item in
the column
3. Sequencing Matching – it requires the examinees to arrange things, steps, or events in
chronological order.
4. Multiple Matching – it requires the examinees to match the item in column A to B, then
matches the answers from column B to column C and further match answers from
column C to column D.