True-false items are able to assess the
a. ability to recognize generalizations in a subject.
b. ability to compare concepts.
c. ability to recognize instances or examples of a principle.
d. All of the above abilities.
e. Only abilities a. and c. above.
Ques. 2Which of the following would you recommend to a history teacher who wants to assess students' knowledge of the order of events during the American Civil War?
a. Greater-same-less format
b. Masterlist set of items
c. Multiple-choice format
Ques. 3A good true-false item is one that is obviously correct
a. to any person with a large amount of general knowledge.
b. to any person with good common sense.
c. only to a person who has a good command of the course material.
d. only to the few top students in the course.
Ques. 4Items written in the greater-same-less or similar format tend to be self-explanatory and do not require directions to students.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 5What is a unique disadvantage of the greater-same-less item format?
a. Suffers from limited content sampling
b. Restricts assessment to pairs of relationships
c. Limits assessment to recall of factual information
d. Items are relatively difficult to write
Ques. 6It does not make any difference whether the interpretive materials, the masterlist of options, and the set of items appear on the same page or on different pages of the test.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 7When crafting completion items for elementary students, it is best to provide clues by making the length of the blanks proportional to the length of the omitted word.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 8You would generally expect to increase the validity of your students' scores on your completion items if you changed them into direct questions.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 9For which students are blanks at the beginning of a completion item most problematic?
a. Elementary school students
b. Middle school students
c. High school students
d. College and university students
Ques. 10In organizing a set of masterlist items, the set of items is put before the masterlist of options.
a. True
b. False
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