Types of tests items

TYPES OF TESTS ITEMS
Course Code: 8602 (Educational Assessment and
Evaluation)
Unit #4
Presented By:
Abdul Ghafoor Awan (Subject Specialist) English.
M.Phil (Education)
Cell# 0332-7630318

Students have to select correct
option/answer from a given choices
Multiple Choice
Questions
Matching items
True/False

Which is the capital city
of Pakistan?
A. Paris
B. Lisbon
C. Islamabad
D. Rome
The capital city of
Pakistan is:
A. Paris.
B. Lisbon.
C. Islamabad.
D. Rome.

 Important Facts
 Use Simple Language
 Make the Questions Brief and Clear
 Avoid Asking Negative Questions
 Offer an Appropriate Numbers of Distracters

 Effective
 Versatile
 Reduced Guessing
 Can cover broad range
of content
 Difficulty of Construction

 A True-False test item requires the student to determine
whether a statement is true or false.
 Also known as a “binary-choice” item.

 Easy to construct
 Easy to score
 Helpful for poor students
 Assess lower order
thinking skills
 Poor representative of
students learning
achievement

 Consist of :
(i) Column of premises
(ii) Column of responses

 Terms with definitions
 Phrases with other phrases
 Causes with effects
 Parts with larger units
 Problems with solutions

 Factual information can
be tested
 Valuable in content
areas that have a lot of
facts
 Time consuming for
students
 Not good for higher levels
of learning

Students have to provide correct
answer
Completion
items
Short answers
Essay Type

 Answer is needed to complete the sentence.
 These are also known as “Gap-Fillers.

 Student supplies a response to a question
 Most effective for assessing knowledge and
comprehension learning outcomes

 Minimizes guessing
 May overemphasize
memorization of facts
 Scoring is laborious

 Measure the students' higher order thinking skills,
such as applying, organizing, synthesizing,
integrating, evaluating, or projecting while at the
same time providing a measure of writing skills.

 Reduce guessing
 Allows students to
demonstrate ability to
organize knowledge,
express opinions,
show originality.
 Time consuming to
score.

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