1. Teachers should plan every testing activity.
In doing so, they must consider the:
I. Testing venue
II. Test constructor’s skills
III. Test takers’ language level
IV. Vision and philosophy of the school
II and III
IV only
I, II, III, and IV
I, II, and III
2. Which describe the spread of scores, or how large the differences between the individual scores?
Measures of central tendency
Measures of relative position
Measures of shape
Measures of variability
3. It is calculated by adding all values, then dividing the sum by the number of values.
Mean
Range
Mode
Median
4. If the computed standard deviation is low, this means that
The difference between the highest and the lowest scores is high
The difference between the highest and lowest scores is low
The scores of the students are clustered around the mean
The scores of the students are far from the mean
5. Calculate the range of the score distribution: { 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 22, 17, 16, 20, 19, 19, 20}
11
13
16
16.5
6. Which of the following measures is most affected by outliers?
Median
Mean and median
Mean
Mode
7. Data is presented in a chart , diagram, or any form of visual representation.
Spatial
Textual
Graphical
Tabular
8. Which of the following describe/s tabular data presentation?
I. Often misleads the readers
II. Easy to construct and read
III. Suitable in dealing with small sets of data
IV. Facilitates comparison between variables
II, III and IV
I and III
III only
II and IV
9. It is the simplest scale of measurement which involves the assignment of different numerals into categories that
are quantitatively different.
Nominal
Ratio
Ordinal
Interval
10. The test item has a discrimination index of -2 and a difficulty index of 1.0. What does this imply to test
construction? Teacher must _____
Shelve the item for future use
Retain the item
Recast the item
Reject the item
11. On this level of measurement, zero indicates the absence of what is being measured.
Interval
Nominal
Ratio
Ordinal
12. This measure of central location is NOT sensitive to extreme values
None of these
Mode
Mean
Median
13. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.45 and a discrimination index of 0.40. What should the test constructor do?
Revise the item
Retain the item
Make it a bonus item
Reject the item
14. Refer to this set of scores: {47, 36, 38, 43, 35, 44, 36, 21, 39, 40, 38, 26, 48} How will you describe the
distribution?
Multimodal
Bimodal
No mode
Unimodal
15. Which statement on test result interpretation is correct?
The use of statistical technique gives meaning to pupil’s score
A raw score by itself is meaningful
Test scores do not in any way reflect teacher’s effectiveness
The score of the student is the final indicator of his ability
16. A negative discrimination index means that:
The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
More from the upper group got the item correctly
The test item has high reliability
17. Out of 3 distracters in a multiple-choice test item, namely B, C and D, no one chose D as an answer. This implies
that D is a/an
Ineffective distracter
Effective distracter
Vague distracter
Plausible distracter
18. Here is the completion test item:
The _____ is obtained by dividing the ____ by the ____.
The rule in completion test item construction violated is
The required response should be a single word or a brief phrase
Avoid grammatical clues to answer
Avoid indefinite statements
Avoid over mutilated statements
19. Which of the following could produce more than one value?
Median
Mean
Mode
Median and mode
20. Teacher Joelyn constructs a table of specifications and made it as bases for her quarterly assessment in English.
The students can be assured that the test has
Internal consistency
Criterion validity
Content validity
Reliability
21. After scoring, Teacher Diosa got the difference of the highest and lowest scores in each class. What did she
compute?
Median
Inter-quartile range
Variance
Range
22. Compute the inter-quartile range (IQR) of this data set: 68, 90, 46, 50, 93, 78, 53, 73, 85, 87.
34
85.5
27
75.5
23. Which is true if the computed standard deviation is big?
The class performance is on the average
Scores are spread apart
Scores are toward both extremes
Scores are clustered around the mean
24. It divides the set of data into two equal halves
Mode
Range
Mean
Median
25. Teacher Kevin constructed a matching type test. In his columns of items are a combination of events, people,
circumstances. Which of the following guidelines in constructing matching type of test did he VIOLATE?
Make list of items heterogeneous
Provide three or more options
List options in an alphabetical order
Make list of items homogeneous
26. Refer to this set of scores: {47, 36, 38, 43, 35, 44, 36, 21, 39, 40, 38, 26, 48}
Calculate the median.
36
27
37.77
38
27. Which measure(s) of central tendency can be determined by mere inspection?
Median
Median and mode
Mean
Mode
28. Which improvement should be done on this completion test item:
An example of a mammal is ___________.
The blank should be longer to accommodate all possible answers
The question should have only one acceptable answer
The blank should be at the beginning of the sentences
The item should give more cues
29. A positive discrimination index means that:
More from the upper group got the item correctly
The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
The test item has high reliability
More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
30. Which is FALSE about textual presentation of data?
One must read through the whole text to get the main point
It allows the presenter to interpret the data more elaborately
Large sets of data can be easily presented through textual presentation
Data are presented in the form of words, sentences, and paragraph
