Exam 2: Test Design and Construction

Which of the following can be evaluated more effectively by a written test than by an oral test?

Short-answer and matching items are useful only in measuring rote memory or knowledge of facts.

Match the descriptive phrase with the each question type: -Most difficult item to score

Oral tests are better than written tests for measuring the extent of students? knowledge of specific facts.

Separate answer sheets can be used at the __________ school level and beyond.

Test scores are higher when items are grouped (1) in order from easiest to most difficult, and (2) according to the type of item

High school and college students usually prefer oral to written examinations.

Arranging test items in groups according to type or topic tends to improve test scores.

Qualifying words such as ?never, sometimes, and always,? which reveal the answer to an examinee who has no information about the subject of the item, are called

?Which of the following terms does not belong with the others?? is the stem of a(n) __________item.

Bluffing is more of a problem on __________ tests.

Although __________ items are useful in measuring knowledge of terminology, they are of little value in assessing higher-order thinking.

Multiple-choice items emphasize recognition rather than recall.

In Bloom?s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain, ?analysis and synthesis? are considered to be more fundamental (i.e., they appear earlier in the taxonomy) than

Classroom achievement tests are measures of

The tendency to answer an item on the basis of its form rather than its content is known as a

The type of objective item that is most effective in measuring comprehension, application, and other higher order objectives of instruction is the __________ item.

On which kind of objective test items are specific determiners a more serious problem?

Match the descriptive phrase with the each question type: -Homogeneous list of terms, phrases, or other materials

The arrangement in which test items are placed in order of increasing difficulty but are alternated with other items of similar difficulty throughout the test is known as the __________ format.