Which of the following statements is characteristic of the best answer item?
a. All options are incorrect except one.
b. All options are stated in relative terms.
c. All options have some degree of correctness.
Ques. 2Which one of the following formats assesses the ability to interpret statements effectively?
a. Experiment-interpretation and greater-less-same formats
b. Experiment-interpretation and statement-and-comment formats
c. Statement-and-comment and greater-less-same formats
Ques. 3Students think multiple true-false items do a better job of assessing knowledge than do comparable traditional multiple-choice items.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 4Distractors in experiment-interpretation items should be based on the typical misconceptions students have about why an experimental result came about.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 5When crafting tabular items, which of the following should be the last step performed by the teacher?
a. Writing the premises
b. Writing the directions to students
c. Organizing responses into homogeneous groups
Ques. 6The appropriate time to use the response categories Right and Wrong is when a true-false variety item asks a direct question.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 7In tabular or matrix items, the students' task is to organize heterogeneous responses into homogeneous groups in a table.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 8The most discriminating true-false items tend to be those
a. whose correct answer is true.
b. whose correct answer is false.
c. that have the word NOT in them.
d. that incorporate two or more ideas in the statement.
Ques. 9Suppose you wrote a true-false item whose correct answer is false. You then attempt to rewrite a true parallel version of the item. You find that the only way this can be done is by writing not into the false item. What does this imply about your false item?
a. It is not worth using.
b. It is likely to be a good item.
c. It probably would work better as part of a multiple-true false item.
d. It is probably too close to the wording in the textbook.
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