Which of the following item types is difficult to assess students' higher order thinking skills? ...

Which of the following item types is difficult to assess students' higher order thinking skills?
 
  A. True-false
  B. Short answer
  C. Essay

Ques. 2

Which of the following item types is least useful for diagnosing learning difficulties?
 
  A. Matching
  B. Short answer
  C. True-false

Ques. 3

Which of the following item types would be most effective for measuring the ability to distinguish between factual statements and opinion statements?
 
  A. Matching
  B. Short answer
  C. True-false

Ques. 4

Which of the following item types would provide the highest score based on guessing alone?
 
  A. Matching
  B. Short answer
  C. True-false

Ques. 5

Which of the following item types is classified as a supply-type item?
 
  A. Matching
  B. Short answer
  C. True-false

Ques. 6

In large-scale mathematics testing programs, many of the advantages of supply-type items can be maintained by using which of the following item types?
 
  A. grid-in
  B. matching
  C. essay
  D. true-false

Ques. 7

In correcting a short-answer test to measure students' knowledge of specific principles, a teacher deducted one point from the total score for each misspelled word. How would this procedure affect test results?
 
  A. Lowers reliability.
  B. Lowers validity.
  C. Raises the validity.
  D. Raises both the reliability and the validity