A school's marking and reporting system should be based on which of the following?
A. estimates of students' learning ability
B. fixed percentages of grades
C. instructional objectives
D. a normal curve
Ques. 2Item discriminating power should typically not be interpreted as item validity because
A. item analysis usually is based on a partial sample..
B. item analysis usually uses an internal criterion.
C. item validity is also based on item difficulty.
D. defects in test items lower validity.
Ques. 3Absolute grading would require information concerning a student's
A. growth in achievement.
B. level of performance.
C. performance in relation to learning ability.
D. rank in the group.
Ques. 4If a test is composed of items that all have high discrimination indexes (based on the total test score), the test is said to also have
A. content relevance.
B. difficulty.
C. high reliability.
D. high predictive power.
Ques. 5A distracter in a multiple-choice item is judged good if it attracts more students who have
A. cheated on the test.
B. obtained high scores.
C. obtained low scores.
D. marked the items carelessly.
Ques. 6Low discriminating power is acceptable, but only if the item
A. has a 50 level of difficulty.
B. has only three alternatives.
C. is closely related to other items.
D. measures a unique learning outcome.
Ques. 7On a test of 50 students, if 25 students answered an item correctly, the item difficulty is
A. 25.
B. 50.
C. 75.
D. 100.
Ques. 8The correction-for-guessing formula assumes that student guesses are based on which of the following?
A. blind choosing
B. incorrect information
C. partial information
D. testwiseness
Ques. 9Describe the characteristics of a Likert scale. For what purpose might it be used?
What will be an ideal response?
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