Educational assessment and evaluation questions.

What do you think is the main reason for testwise students to guess correctly the last item by a process of elimination in the matching items?

1. Using unequal number of items and options
2. Using equal numbers of items and options
3. Using clues in the items and options
4. Using negative words in the items and options

When writing multiple choice test  items, which of the following is NOT recommended?

1. Make the stem specific and with sufficient context.
2. Make all the distracters plausible
3. Make the distracters grammatically consistent
4. Make the stem somewhat ambiguous

Which among the following circumstances describes the situation in which discrimination index of the question becomes 1.0?

1. Difficulty indices of higher and lower achievers are equal
2. When the question is scored more by lower achievers than the higher ones
3. When the difficult index of lower achievers is 0 and that of high acheivers is 1
4. When the difficulty index of high achievers is 1 while that of low achievers is +1

What is the meaning of q in the following formula of calculating internal consistent reliability by using Kuder Richardson 20 (K-R 20)?

1. The proportion of the responses to an item that are correct
2. The proportion of responses that are correct
3. Variance
4. Total number of questions in the test

A description of the kurtosis in a distribution in which the statistical value is negative when compared to a normal distribution is called.

1. Platykurtic
2. Mesokurtic
3. Leptokurtic
4. Negative skewness

Which of the following represents the relationship between reliability and test length?

1. Spearman-Brown formula
2. Coefficient alpha
3. KR-21
4. KR-20

The greatest danger in using the test -retest method of estimating reliability is that the test takers will score differently on the same test because of:

1. Practice effects
2. Order effects
3. Alternate forms
4. Parallel forms

As a rule adding more questions to a test that measures the same trait or attribute ________ the test`s reliability:

1. Can decrease
2. Does not affect
3. Can increase
4. Lowers

What is the greatest danger when using alternative /parallel forms in determining the internal consistent reliability of the test?

1. Test takers will display practice effects
2. Two forms will not be equivalent
3. Test takers can be confused by order effects
4. Test will be reliable but not valid

Estimating reliability using methods of internal consistency is appropriate only for tests that are:

1. Alternate forms
2. Equivalent forms
3. Parallel forms
4. Homogenous