Chapter 7

Question 1

Which item type is classified as a supply type item?

Answer 1

Short Answer

Question 2

Which item type would provide the highest score based on guessing alone?

Answer 2

True/False

Question 3

Which item type would be most effective for measuring the ability to distinguish between factual statements and opinion statements?

Answer 3

True/False

Question 4

Which item type is least useful for diagnosing learning difficulties?

Answer 4

True/False

Question 5

Which item type can provide the same test retakes as the first five multiple choice items but could do it more effectively?

Answer 5

Matching

Question 6

Short-answer test items are clearly superior to matching or true and false in measuring?

Answer 6

computational skills

Question 7

the main shortcoming in using short-answer items is the difficulty of

Answer 7

scoring them

Question 8

in correcting a short-answer test to measure knowledge of specific principles, a teacher deducted one point from the total score for each misspelled word. How would this procedure affect test results?

Answer 8

Lowers Validity

Question 9

In testing mathematics in large-scale testing programs, many of the advantages of supply-type items can be maintained by using

Answer 9

grid-in items

Question 10

all of the following are limitations of short-answer items EXCEPT they

Answer 10

reduce the chance of guessing the correct answer

Question 11

all whales are mammals bc they are large. Asking students to mark this statement true or false would be poor testing bc

Answer 11

misinformation could lead to the correct answer

Question 12

absolute terms like all or none that provide clues in T/F statements are called

Answer 12

specific determiners

Question 13

how can true/false become more reliable

Answer 13

by increasing the number of items

Question 14

matching items are most useful for measuring learning outcomes at the level of

Answer 14

knowledge

Question 15

matching item is a modified form of the

Answer 15

mc item

Question 16

a difficulty in constructing matching items is that of finding material that requires

Answer 16

relating

Question 17

a difficulty in constructing matching items is finding material that is

Answer 17

homogeneous

Question 18

guessing on a matching item can be reduced by

Answer 18

using responses more than once

Question 19

excessive use of matching items will most likely result in overemphasis on

Answer 19

rote learning

Question 20

which type of item has the greatest chance of measuring irrelevant material

Answer 20

matching

Question 21

one way to cut down on the assessment of irrelevant information in matching items us to write them as T/F items (T/F)

Answer 21

False

Question 22

one problem with t/f items is that when a false item is correct it does not measure whether the student actually knows the information that makes the item true (Agree/dis)

Answer 22

Agree

Question 23

in which type of questions would interrater reliability probably be an issue

Answer 23

short answer

Question 24

why should a teacher not take off for spelling on a short answer question?

Answer 24

Lowers validity