CLASSIFICATION OF TESTS

Presented by
LESLIE MONICA T. MACAISA
 ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT
FOR LEARNING OF LEARNING
Formative Summative
The students are evaluated The students are evaluated
during the work process upon completion of the work
and the focus is in the and the focus is on the final
improvement of the product.
process.
The gathering of Summary, evaluation or
information is base in the judgment is gathered at the
on-going information. end of the topic, unit,
semester or term.
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Completion or Filling the Blanks

The examinees are required to fill out
the blanks with word or words to form
a complete statement.
RULES:
1. The blank space should be located at the end
or near the end of the statement, never at the
beginning.
Ex. The study of living things is _______.

2. Be sure to have uniform length of the blank

spaces to avoid clues.
RULES:
3. Avoid clues like a, an.
Ex. The man gave Mary an ________.

4. Don’t over mutilate the statements.

Ex. _____ is the study of _____ in the ______.

5. Give very clear instructions.

6. Be sure that there is only one correct answer to
an item.
7. Direct students to write their answers in one
column-either right or left side.
Multiple Choice Type
The type of test which includes a
direct question or an incomplete
statement and a number of possible
answers.
According to Greene this is the most
popular type of test. For Michaels and
Karnes it is the most useful.
 COMPONENTS OF MULTIPLE CHOICE TYPE OF TEST:
STEM- the direct What is the name of
question or the Dr. Jose Rizal’s dog
incomplete statement. according to the
historian Zaide?
FOILS- are the choices a. Verguenza b. Tusman
c. Usman d. Batik
DISTRACTERS- choices
which represents wrong a. Verguenza b. Tusman
answers d. Batik
KEY- the correct answer c. Usman
RULES:
1. Provide options that are plausible with each
other to attract the students to choose distracters
where only those with high intellectual levels can
get the best option.
2. Provide options that are grammatically
consistent. If the stem is singular, the options are all
singular.
3. Avoid the use of a and an as the last words of the
stem.
4. Provide at least four options.
5. Be sure that the stem contains the central idea.
Identification Test
This test is a form of completion test in which
a term is defined, explained or indicated by a
picture, diagram or a concrete object.
RULES:
1. The definition or explanation of the term may be given by
means of a phrase or incomplete statement or in a question
form.
Ex. ____1. The conqueror of Mactan.
____2. A triangle with a right angle.
____3. The Rajah who led the fight against Legaspi
on 1571.
____4. Who discovered the Philippines?
RULES:
2. The statement should be so phrased that there is
only one response.
Wrong: ____1. Manuel L. Quezon
Better: ____1. The first President of
Commonwealth.

Enumeration
This test is a type of completion test in
which there are two or more responses to
an item.
 Ex. Enumerate the different Standardized Test
usually administered to the students.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Cloze Procedure/Test
Is a procedure in which the reader attempts
to anticipate meaning from context and to
accurately supply the deleted words from the
message.
Analogy
This type is made of items consisting of a
pair of words that are related to each other.
It is designed to measure the ability of
students to observe that pair relationship of
the first group to the second group.
TYPES OF WORD ANALOGY
1. Purpose 6. Object to 12. Sequence
2. Cause and Action 13. Grammatical
Effect 7. Synonym 14. Numerical
3. Part-Whole 8. Antonym 15. Association
4. Part-Part 9. Place
5. Action to 10. Degree
Object 11. Characteristics
RULES:
1. The relationship of the first pair of words must be equal
to the relationship of the second.
2. Distracters must be plausible with the correct option to
attract the students such the process of obtaining a
correct answer is logical elimination.
3. All options must be constructed in parallel language.
4. All items must be grammatically consistent
5. Four or more options must be included in each item to
minimize the chances of guessing.
6. Only homogenous relationship must be included in each
item.