SLIDEPRESENTATION

PREPARED BY:JOVY MAY BARIAS

PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION IN

PLANNING TEST INTRODUCTION

1. Write Test Instructions

2. Create Questions

3. Select Question

Type

4. Considerations for Timing &

Repetition

5. Presentation of the test (considerations

for ordering, presenting, and flow).

Multiple Choice

Is a form of assessment in which the students select the best possible

answer/s out of the choices from a list.

Constructing Multiple

Choice Items

1. Avoid unnecessarily

unfamiliar terminology.

2. Avoid vague qualitative modifiers such as many, large, much, small, old, and

important.

3. Avoid complex or Awkward word arrangements.

4. Avoid trick statements with some minor misleading word Or spelling anomaly.

5. Each item stem should be as short

as possible

6. Distracters should be equally

plausible and attractive.

7. All multiple choice options should be

grammatically consistent with the

stem.

8. Avoid stems that reveal the answer to another item.

9. Avoid alternatives that are

synonymous with, include or overlap

others.

10. Avoid use of unnecessary words or phrases, which are not

relevant to the problem.

11. Avoid extreme specificity

requirements in responses.

12. Use the "None of the above" option only

when the keyed answer is totally

correct.

13. Note that use of “all of the above”

may allow credit for partial knowledge.