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DIAGNOSTIC TEST
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
4. At the beginning of the school year, the 6-year old pupils were tested to find out who
among them can already read. The results were used to determine their sections.
What kind of test was given to them?
A. Placement test
B. Summative test
C. Diagnostic test
D. Formative test
7. Miss Villanueva rated her students in terms of appropriate and effective use of some
laboratory equipment and measurement tools and if they are able to follow the
specified procedures. What mode of assessment should Miss Villanueva use?
A. Traditional Assessment
B. Portfolio Assessment
C. Performance-Based Assessment
D. Journal Assessment
8. Mrs. Odeste is planning a test that aims to measure the ability of the students to
create and organize their ideas. What type of test should she construct?
A. Short Answer Test
B. Essay Test
C. Multiple Choice
D. Matching Type
10. Why it is that standardized test can never completely replace informal test?
A. It provides inadequate basis for interpretation.
B. It lacks validity for classroom purposes.
C. It calls for special training in administering and scoring.
D. It lacks reliability for classroom purposes.
11. Towards the end of the quarter, Ms. Anilao gives an examination to her students in
Science to find out to what extent the objectives of the lesson have been attained.
What type of evaluation procedure is she using?
A. Summative test
B. Placement test
C. Formative test
D. Diagnostic test
12. Mr. Javier wants to find out how well her students can speak extemporaneously.
Which valid assessment procedure should he use?
A. Test asking students to write speeches
B. Performance test displaying speeches delivered
C. Quiz on how to deliver extemporaneous speech
D. Performance test in extemporaneous speaking
13. Teacher X wants to test students’ knowledge of the different places in the
Philippines, their capital and their products and so he gave his/her student an essay
test. If you are the teacher will you do the same?
A. Yes, essay test could measure more than what other tests could measure.
B. No, the giving of an objective test is more appropriate than the use of essay.
C. Yes, essay test is the best in measuring any type of knowledge.
D. No, such method of assessment is inappropriate because essay is difficult.
15. It is used to describe any incorrect choice or option in a multiple-choice test item.
A. Oversight
B. Alternative
C. Distracter
D. Standard error
18. You have computed the mean and you want to get more information about the
distribution of scores. Which measure of variability is most appropriate?
A. Range
B. Semi-interquartile range
C. Standard deviation
D. Mode
19. The more information teachers obtain about how students perform the more capacity
they have to rethink their pedagogy, and the more opportunities they create for
student success. Which statement BEST explains the text above?
A. Teachers should file information
B. Teachers should teach to test.
C. Teachers should keep records of family background.
D. Teachers should keep track of learning outcomes.
20. The main purpose in administering a pretest and a posttest to students is to:
A. Measure gains in learning
B. Accustom the students in frequent testing
C. Keep adequate records
D. Measure the value of the material used.
21. The collegial process of developing and evaluating performance assessments help
teachers to understand the _________ needed to produce high quality performance.
A. Information
B. Materials
C. Scaffolding
D. Tests
22. The Report Card is given every grading period to the students and the parents are
informed of the learner’s performance. This is a/an ____of the teacher stipulated in
the Education Act of 1982.
A. Responsibility
B. Accountability
C. Role
D. Obligation
24. If I have to use the most authentic method of assessment, which of these procedure
should I consider?
A. Objective assessment
B. Traditional Test
C. Performance-based assessment
D. Written test
26. Mrs. Perez allowed the students to develop their own portfolio in their own style as
long as they show all the non-negotiable evidences of learning. What principle in
portfolio assessment explains this practice?
A. Equity Principle
B. Product Principle
C. Content Principle
D. Learning Principle
27. Teacher Evelyn constructed a test in Social Studies. She analyzed the objectives,
the textbooks, the outline, and good teaching methods. What type of validity is
observed?
A. Congruent
B. Construct
C. Curricular
D. Concurrent
28. Which should Mr. Laylo consider when writing multiple-choice items?
A. The alternatives are arranged in any order.
B. The stem and alternatives are on the same page.
C. The stem has irrelevant material.
D. The stem presents an unknown problem.
29. When a distribution of achievement test scores is positively skewed, one might infer
that the test was..
A. Poorly administered
B. Unreliable
C. Too easy
D. Too difficult
30. The preliminary draft of a 100-item test should have how many items?
A. 10 – 20 Items
B. 125 – 150 items
C. 200 items
D. 50 items
31. Which term describes the peakedness or flatness of the curve in a distribution as
compared with the normal curve?
A. Homogeneity
B. Heterogeneity
C. Kurtosis
D. Skewness
32. What should a teacher do to avoid overweighing the test with respect to certain
objectives while neglecting others?
A. Make a table of specifications indicating the weight of each according to
importance.
B. Make as many items as possible then pick them at random
C. Make the same number of items on each topic covered in the textbook.
D. Make the same number of items for the contents covered in each day’s lesson.
34. At the end of the semester, Mr. Wagan wants to find out how much his students
have learned in his Trigonometry class. What type of test should he prepare?
A. Aptitude test
B. Achievement test
C. Diagnostic test
D. Readiness test
37. The Holy Trinity School is planning to give an admission test to the incoming nursery
learners to determine their mental ability level. Considering their inability to read
words, what type of test should be given to them?
A. Non-Verbal test
B. Psychological test
C. Educational test
D. Verbal test
39. A teacher is developing a test that measure students’ belief on the importance of
education in improving one’s life. What target is she assessing?
A. Values towards schooling
B. Self- Efficacy
C. Attitude towards schooling
D. Academic self-concept
40. A 50-item test was given to the students of Mrs. Garcia. After checking the test, most
of the students got a perfect score. Using the criterion-referenced grading system, all
the students will get a grade ranging from 90% – 100%. Which is true when this
grading system is being used?
A. Whether the test is hard or easy, all students will get a passing mark.
B. If the test is too hard; few students will get low grades.
C. If the test too easy, many students will get high-grade.
D. Whether the test is hard or easy, all students will get a failing mark.
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41. Which of the following questions indicates a nor-referenced interpretation?
A. What type of remedial work would be helpful to slow-learners?
B. How does the performance of pupils in one school compare with that of the other
schools?
C. Which pupils have obtained mastery of computation skills?
D. How does the performance of one pupil in reading compare with his performance
in Math?
43. Kimberly scored 40 out of a 50-item criterion-referenced test. How should her
teacher interpret her score considering the type of the test given and the fact that the
mean score of her class is 38?
A. Kimberly learned 40% of the lessons covered in the test.
B. Kimberly is an average student.
C. Kimberly learned 80% of the lessons covered in the test.
D. Kimberly is 2 points above the average score.
44. The fourth year students were given an achievement test in English. Majority if the
students got low scores. How would you describe the distribution?
A. Positively Skewed
B. Mesokurtic
C. Negatively Skewed
D. Platykurtic
47. Mrs. Herrera wants to test the reliability of her achievement test in Science. Which of
the following activities will help achieve her purpose?
A. Examine the items if they are consistent with the test objectives.
B. Administer the test twice to the same group of students.
C. Give the test to her students and then compare the result with another test taken
by the same students.
D. Show the test to experts to check whether the items have accurate answers.
48. Mr. Castro constructed a true-false test items to determine if his pupils can tell what
mammals are. Which of the items below is NOT good to consider?
A. A platypus is a mammal that lays eggs.
B. A bat is not a mammal.
C. Mammals are covered with hair.
D. There are mammals that live in a water.
50. What is the greatest advantage of the objective test over the essay test?
A. It has extensive sampling
B. It is easy to score
C. It is easy to make
D. It is easy to administer
52. Two classes with students of comparable grade point average were exposed to two
different methods of instruction in Math. Both classes were taught the same lesson
by the same teacher but Class A was taught the traditional method while Class B
was exposed to Problem-Based Instruction. After their exposure to these methods,
they were given a posttest. Shown below are the results of the posttest given after
the experiment.
Class A Class B
Mean 80 82
Standard
2.3 7.2
Deviation
Which between the two classes has a homogeneous performance?
A. Both A and B
B. Class A
C. Class B
D. Neither A or B
53. Mrs. Vergara wants to determine how heterogeneous the class is after giving them a
test. The test scores are not too high or too low. What measure of dispersion should
she use to attain her purpose?
A. Range
B. Mean Deviation
C. Standard Deviation
D. Quartile Deviation
54. If a test item has difficulty index of 0.05, how would you describe the test item?
A. It is difficult
B. It has average difficult
C. It is very difficult
D. It is very easy
55. If the mean is 85 and the standard deviation is 5, how will you determine the scores
of average students?
A. Scores that are lower than 85 but not lower than 80
B. Scores that are exactly 85
C. Scores from 80 to 90
D. Scores that is higher than 85 but not higher than 90
57. Three teachers were asked to be judges in an oratorical contest. Each of them was
given an instrument to use in evaluating the performance of the participants. At the
end, it was found that all the three judges arrived at precisely the same ratings. What
characteristic of the instrument was revealed?
A. Reliability
B. Objectivity
C. Usability
D. Validity
58. The quartile deviation of the scores obtained in the Departmental Examination is 2.3.
What does this mean?
A. The deviation of Q1 from the median is 2.3
B. The average deviation of Q3 and Q1 from the median 2.3
C. The median is 2.3
D. The deviation of Q3 from the median is 2.3
60. Which instrument measures the area that the students like?
A. Liker Scale
B. Personality Inventory
C. Interest Inventory
D. Anecdotal Record
61. After teaching the different parts of speech, the Teacher Ella gave a test to find out
how well the students have understood the lessons. What type of evaluation was
done?
A. Formative
B. Placement
C. Summative
D. Diagnostic
63. Which is true when the shape of the distribution is skewed to the left?
A. The median is greater than the mean and the mode.
B. The mean is lower than the median and the mode.
C. The mean, median and mode fall at the same point.
D. The mode is lower than the median and the mean.
66. The Department of Education now uses percentage score when computing the
corresponding grade of the student in a test and its passing score is equivalent to
75% of the test. If Jake got a score of 6 in a 10-item test, did he get a passing
grade?
A. No, because the equivalent grade for his raw score is 5% below the passing rank.
B. No, because he should have a raw score of at least 8 to be able to get a passing
grade for his test.
C. Yes, because he obtained a score that is more than half the total number of
items.
D. Yes, because he obtained a score that is equivalent to 80%.
67. Ms. Zaide wants to determine if the students’ scored in their Final Test is reliable.
However she has only one set of test and her students are already in vacation. What
test of reliability can she employ?
A. Kuder Ricahrdson Method
B. Equivalent Forms
C. Test – Retest
D. Test-Retest with Equivalent Forms
68. In the context of the Theory of Multiple Intelligence, which is a weakness of the
paper-pencil test?
A. It lacks reliability.
B. It puts non-linguistically intelligent at a disadvantage.
C. It is not easy to administer.
D. It utilizes so much time.
70. Mr. Ilagan used her students’ scores in the first grading test in Math and correlated
these with the students’ score in the second grading test in that same subject to
determine if his instrument can describe the present performance of the students in
Mathematics. What test of validity did he established?
A. Construct
B. Predictive
C. Concurrent
D. Content
71. What should a teacher do before constructing items for a particular test?
A. Announce to the students the scope of the test.
B. Review the previous lessons.
C. Prepare a table of specifications.
D. Determine the length of time for answering it.
72. In this set of ungrouped scores; 13, 12, 13, 9, 11, 11, 13 and 14. Which is the mode?
A. 11
B. 12
C. 13
D. 14
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73. Which measure in the distribution indicates that one-half of the class is below it?
A. Median
B. Percentile Rank
C. Mean
D. Mode
75. Which of the following characteristics of a good test is first given consideration?
A. Administratively
B. Reliability
C. Validity
D. Usability
77. Which statement is most acceptable as regards the validity and reliability of a test?
A. Reliability of the test is more important than its validity.
B. If the test is reliable but invalid, it is useless.
C. If the test has high validity but low reliability, then it should be ignored.
D. If a test is valid, it follows that it is also reliable.
79. The quartile deviation of the class is 4.3. What does this mean?
A. The 3rd quartile score is 4.3 above the median.
B. 4.3 is the average deviation of the first and third quartile from the median.
C. The 1st quartile is 4.3 below the median.
D. 4.3 is the average distance of the scores of the students who took the test.
80. Which is a good portfolio evidence of a student’s acquired knowledge and writing
skills?
A. Critiqued Outputs
B. Reflective Journal
C. Test Results
D. Project
81. Which of the following is an item that measure students’ locus of control?
A. I like math because of my inspiring math teachers.
B. The subject is boring.
C. Education is important.
D. I can solve well any mathematical problem.
83. To maximize the amount of time spent for the performance-based assessment,
which one should be done?
A. Limit the task to one meeting only.
B. Assess one objective for one performance task.
C. Plan a task that can be used for instruction and assessment at the same time.
D. Set objectives for cognitive domains.
85. Which is the term used to designate the quantifying processes in education?
A. Measurement
B. Scoring
C. Evaluation
D. Communication
86. Which of the following is an advantage of the essay test over the objective test?
A. Preparation of items is easier than the objective test.
B. Correction of every item is open to subjective scoring.
C. It is efficient for synthesis and evaluation outcomes.
D. It requires very few items only.
87. The grade six pupils were given a diagnostic test in addition and subtraction of
whole numbers to find out if they can proceed to the next unit. However, the results
of the test were very low. What should the teacher do?
A. Count the number of errors to find out the lessons that the majority of students
need to relearn.
B. Proceed to the next lesson to be able to finish all the topics in the course.
C. Record the scores then inform the parents about the very poor performance of
their child in mathematics.
D. Construct another test parallel to the given test to determine the consistency of
the scores.
89. Marilyn got a percentile rank of 88 in a national test. How would you interpret her
score?
A. She belonged to the upper 88% of the class.
B. She performed better than 88% of the total number of examinees.
C. She missed 12 items in the test.
D. She answered 88 items correctly.
91. Without preparing the required table of specification, Mr. Mercado proceeded to the
writing of test items for the Periodical Test in Social Studies. Consequently, he found
his test overloaded with items in map-reading. What principle of testing did Mr.
Mercado violate?
A. Reliability
B. Validity
C. Scope
D. Usability
92. Mrs. Cura wants to classify her pupils into four ability groups using their achievement
test results. What measure should she consider?
A. Quartile
B. Median
C. Standard Deviation
D. Range
93. What do you mean by a frequency of zero (0) for the interval 41 – 45?
A. Nobody got a score from 41 to 45.
B. The interval 41 - 45 should not be included anymore.
C. Nobody got a score equal to the midpoint.
D. There is no difference between 41 and 45.
94. What percent of the cases in the distribution of scores lie below the third quartile?
A. 75%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 10%
95. What should you consider when writing a matching type of test?
A. The shorter part of the test should be the column of responses.
B. The columns should be equal in length.
C. The direction should state that column A should be matched to column B.
D. The column of responses should contain heterogeneous ideas.
96. Which intelligence test item is most valid of the following percent corresponding
respectively to the 5, 6, and 7-year old children who took the test?
A. 20%, 30%, 40%
B. 20%, 30%, 30%
C. 50%, 50%, 50%
D. 80%, 75%, 70%
100. What should be done first when planning for a performance-based assessment?
A. Set the competencies to be assessed.
B. Prepare a scoring rubric.
C. Set the criteria on scoring the task.
D. Determine the “table of specifications” of the tasks.