ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING 1

Final Examination
Name: _________________________________ Score: _________________
WALTER F. GALAROSA, PhD Date: __________________

Test I. Multiple Choice. Read the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the best answer.
Write your answer in another sheet of paper.
1. Teacher Watty wants to test his student’s ability to formulate ideas, which type of
test should he formulate?
a. Completion test
b. Matching type
c. Multiple-choice answer
d. Essay
2. Teacher A discovered that his students are weak in grammar. Which assessment
procedure should Teacher A administer to further determine in which other skills his
students are weak?
a. Placement assessment
b. Diagnostic assessment
c. Summative assessment
d. Formative assessment
3. Teacher Gilbert conducted a short test after discussing the topic “Item Analysis”, to
get feedback on how much students learned which may not be used for grading
purposes is classified as ___________.
a. Placement assessment
b. Summative assessment
c. Formative assessment
d. Diagnostic assessment
4. Which of the following is the main purpose of administering a pre-test and post-test
to the students?
a. Measure the value of the materials used.
b. Accustom the students in frequent testing.
c. Measure gains in learning.
d. Measure the effectiveness of instruction.
5. Which statement is true in a bell-shaped curved?
a. There are more high scores than low scores.
b. Most of the scores are high.
c. The scores are normally distributed.
d. There are more low scores than high scores.
6. Which of the following statement best describes norm-referenced interpretation?
a. RJ performed better in Araling Panlipunan than 85% of his classmates.
b. RJ was able to get 60% of the items correctly.
c. RJ got 40 items correctly out of 50 items.
d. RJ was able to answer his test in 45 minutes only.
7. Teacher Arnold wrote about Bryan: “When Bryan came to class this morning, he
seemed very tired 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 class discussion.
What Teacher Arnold wrote is an example of a/an ___________.
a. Anecdotal record
b. Observation report
c. Personality report
d. Incidence report
8. Teacher Ana found out that more from the lower group got item number 16
correctly in her item analysis. This means that the test item has ____________.
a. Low validity
b. Positive discriminating power
c. Zero discriminating power
d. Negative discriminating power
9. Teacher Ian will construct an achievement test. Which of the following he will
accomplish first?
a. Construct relevant test items.
b. Identify the intended learning outcomes.
c. Prepare table of specification.
d. Determine the number of items to be constructed.
10. The main objective of testing in teaching is ___________.
a. To assess students learning and the effectiveness of instruction.
b. To assess the effectiveness of teaching methods used.
c. To evaluate the instructional materials used.
d. To evaluate the performance of the teacher in that particular lesson.
Test II. Matching Type. Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer
in an extra sheet of paper.
A B
_____ 1. Ascending order
_____ 2. Guidance purpose of grading
_____ 3. Class mark
the
_____ 4. Single value frequency distribution
_____ 5. Administrative purpose of grading
_____ 6. Index of difficulty
_____ 7. Motivational purpose of grading
to
_____ 8. Positive discriminating power
_____ 9. Informational purpose of grading
grouped
_____ 10. Zero discriminating power
a. There is an equal number of
students from both the upper and
lower groups who got the right
answer to a test item.
b. To encourage students to exert
academic effort.
c. Difficulty level of an item when
percentage of students answering
correctly each item in the test.
d. To identify students who need
special services like tutoring and
remedial instruction.
e. This type of frequency distribution
is used when the number of test
scores or scores (N) is more than 30.
f. This is used when the number of
test scores or scores (N) is 30 or less.
g. Scores are arranged from lowest
highest
h. To communicate students’ subject
matter achievement
i. The midpoint of a class in a
frequency distribution.
j. To make decisions regarding
students’ class standing.
k. The scores are arranged from
highest to lowest.
l. When more students from the
upper group got the right answer
than those from the lower group.
Test III. Identification. Identify the correct answer for each statements/sentence stated below.
Put your answer in another sheet of paper.
_______________ 1. It is a form of grade wherein numbers are used in assigning grades to rest
scores and students’ performance. This is commonly used in colleges and universities.
_______________ 2. A score distribution wherein the mean is greater than the median and the
mode.
_______________ 3. Way of organizing test scores wherein its is the process of determining the
relative position of scores, measures or values based on magnitude, worth, quality, or
importance.
_______________ 4. Method of organizing test scores for statistical analysis that presents table
showing the number of times a score occurs.
_______________ 5. It refers to the percentage of high-scoring individuals responding correctly
versus the number of low-scoring individuals responding correctly to an item.
_______________ 6. This is undertaken for the purpose of improving test items, its techniques
cannot be used with essay items.
_______________ 7. This is to be assigned to corrected examination papers and other student
outputs in order to quantify students’ performance and, at the same time, inform them how
well or poorly they performed relative to the requirements.
_______________ 8. It is the difference between the highest and lowest scores in the set of test
scores in the distribution.
_______________ 9. It is a measure of dispersion and this is simply the square root of the
variance
_______________ 10. Refers to the numerical arrangement of numerical observations or
measurements.

Test IV. Enumeration.

1-4. Measures of dispersion or variability
5-7. Benefits derived from item analysis.
8-10. Three main types of evidence that may be collected.
11-13. Measures of Central Tendency
14-15. Types of criterion validity
16-17. Important characteristics of an item that will be of interest to the teacher.
18-20. Information about item analysis procedure for Norm.

Test V. Compare and Contrast.

1. Criterion-related evidence of validity vs Construct-related evidence of validity
 2. Validity vs Reliability
3. Predictive validity vs Construct validity
4. Qualitative Rating vs Percentage rating
5. Range vs Variance

Test VI. Essay

1. Why must a post-test review be conducted by a teacher? Do you think it is
important to you as a future teacher? Explain.
2. Being a prospective or future teacher, what will you do if you see or catch that your
student cheating during the examination? Explain and justify your answer.
3. What is the relationship between validity and reliability? Can a test be reliable and
yet not valid? Illustrate.

Test VII. Do the following:

1. Arrange the following scores in descending order:
40 43 47 31 22 30 49 45 25 28
________________________________________________________

2. Rank the following test scores.

88 96 69 80 103 77 84 70 88 95
92 85 88 95 91 76 85 89 98 73

3. Prepare a single value frequency distribution of the following set of scores:

31 26 34 37 29 22 28 34 22 25
31 28 12 33 30 19 28 23 21 23
36 37 32 26

4. Here is a set of scores: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

A. What is the mean?
B. What is the median?
C. What is the mode?
D. What is the range?

5. A student has gotten the following grades on his test: 87, 95, 76, and 88. He wants
an 85 or better overall. What is the minimum grade he must get on the last test in
order to achieve that average?
6. Solve for the difficulty index of each test item:
Item Number 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Correct Responses 2 10 20 30 15
Number of Students 50 30 30 30 40
Difficulty Index

A. Which is the most difficult? Most easy?

B. Which needs revision? Which should be discarded? Why?

BE HONEST!!! GOD IS WATCHING YOU!!!

Prepared by:

WALTER F. GALAROSA, PhD

Part-Time Instructor