A standardized achievement test is best used for which of the following purposes?

A standardized achievement test is best used for which of the following purposes?
 
  A. assigning grades
  B. comparing achievement in several schools
  C. evaluating a school's objectives
  D. tabulating the achievements of each student in a classroom

Ques. 2

One advantage of a teacher-made test over a standardized achievement test is that the teacher-made test has greater
 
  A. interpretability.
  B. objectivity.
  C. relevance.
  D. reliability.

Ques. 3

The main advantage of using an achievement test battery, instead of a series of separate achievement tests covering the same areas, is that the subtests in the achievement test battery have
 
  A. comparable norms.
  B. higher reliability.
  C. higher validity.
  D. more items.

Ques. 4

The validity of a standardized achievement test to be selected for classroom use can best be determined by examining the test's
 
  A. directions.
  B. items.
  C. norms.
  D. reliability.

Ques. 5

One advantage of a standardized test over a teacher-made test is that the standardized test has greater
 
  A. known technical quality.
  B. flexibility.
  C. overall objectivity.
  D. relevance.

Ques. 6

A standardized achievement test differs most from a teacher-made objective test in which of the following areas?
 
  A. Arrangement of question types.
  B. Known reliability of items.
  C. Objectivity of scoring.
  D. Level of difficulty.

Ques. 7

The validity of a published test used to measure student achievement at the end of a specific school science course can best be determined by
 
  A. curriculum experts in science.
  B. test experts with a science background.
  C. the teacher of the course.
  D. the test publisher.

Ques. 8

Which of the following factors should be given the most weight in selecting a published achievement test battery?
 
  A. Cost of administration and scoring.
  B. Equivalence of the various forms.
  C. Relevance to local objectives.
  D. Reliability of the tests and subtests.

Ques. 9

Which of the following would most likely improve the scoring of essay answers on a test?
 
  A. having a second competent scorer grade the papers
  B. including errors in grammar in the total score
  C. looking at the student's name before reading each paper
  D. reading answers of students who typically are high achieving first