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CI 152 Assessment 7
Test Items
Question | Answer |
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Constructed response items: | essay, short answer, fill-in |
These are easy for the teacher to develop, time-consuming to score, difficult to score reliably: | constructed response items |
Selected response items: | true/false, matching, multiple choice |
These are time-consuming to develop, easy to score, high scoring reliability: | selected response items |
Only these allow one to document higher level thought: | the essay and the multiple choice item |
These restrict one to memorization and definition issues: | true/false, matching, short answer |
Essay: provide direction in the instruction, but do not make item so specific that it becomes: | an elaborate recall item |
Essay: develop a rubric before the test is administered and allow learners to know: | how you intend to score the item |
What does the essay restrict? | the number of other items one can administer |
Short answer: works well when you wish learners to: | produce rather than recognize the best choices |
Short answer: particularly good when students are provided: | an ordered list |
As with all constructed response items... | scoring reliability is a problem |
Problems with fill-ins: | serious scoring reliability problems, time-consuming to score, measure only lower level thought |
When constructing matching items what three questions should be answered? | must all choices be used, may some choices be used more than once, must all correct choices be listed |
What do you need to maintain with matching items? | a single theme |
The matching item and choices should be on what? | a single page |
What is the strength of true/false items? | they allow one to sample a great many different subjects in comparatively little time |
What is a weakness of true/false items? | the level of thought one can document from the response |
With true/false items one should: | keep item brief, don't ask opinion questions unless they are attributed to someone, avoid complex constructions |
Multiple choice: the beginning of the item where the question is posed | stem (should be a complete sentence) |
How many choices are typically in a multiple choice question? | four |
Multiple choice: incorrect choices are called | distractors |
Multiple choice: item difficulty increases when... | distractors become more like the correct choice |
Multiple choice: when the item is too easy... | increase the similarity between the correct choice and the distractor |
Multiple choice: when the item is too difficult... | increase the distance between the correct choice and the distractor |
Multiple correct answers in a multiple choice question yields what? | good measurement, but low student morale |
Multiple choice: avoid using.... | stem cues |
Multiple choice: keep the choices... | near the same length |