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    This document provides guidelines for administering, scoring, and reviewing paper-and-pencil tests. It discusses arranging test items from easiest to most difficult, providing clear directions, and ensuring a quiet testing environment. It also describes holistic and analytic scoring of essay questions and the importance of objectivity. Post-test review involves writing comments on tests and reviewing answers to help students understand their performance.

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    This document provides guidelines for administering, scoring, and reviewing paper-and-pencil tests. It discusses arranging test items from easiest to most difficult, providing clear directions, and ensuring a quiet testing environment. It also describes holistic and analytic scoring of essay questions and the importance of objectivity. Post-test review involves writing comments on tests and reviewing answers to help students understand their performance.

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    ADMINISTERING

    AND SCORING
    Paper-and-Pencil Tests

    Arranging Test Items


    1. Similar items should be grouped together.
    For example multiple choice items should be
    together and separated from true-false
    items.
    2. Arrange test items logically. Test items have
    to be arranged from the easiest to the most
    difficult.

    3. Selection items should be placed at the start


    of the test and supply items at the end.
    4. Short-answer items should be placed before
    essay items.

    5. Specify directions that students have


    to follow in responding to each set of
    grouped items.
    6. Avoid cramming items too close to each
    other. Leave enough space for the
    students to write their answers.

    7. Avoid splitting multiple-choice or


    matching items across two different
    pages.
    8. Number test items consecutively.

    Administering the Test


    Test administration is concerned with
    the physical setting and
    psychological setting in which the
    students take the test, for the
    students to do their best on the
    test.

    Guidelines
    1. Provide a quiet and comfortable setting.
    2. Anticipate questions that students may ask.
    3. Set a proper atmosphere for testing.
    4. Discourage cheating.

    5. Help students keep track of time.

    To prevent and
    discourage cheating
    Before testing:

    Teach well

    Give students sufficient time to prepare for


    the test

    Acquaint the students with the nature of the


    test and its coverage

    Define to the students what cheating is.

    Explain the discipline to be imposed when


    caught cheating.

    During testing
    1. Require students to remove unnecessary
    materials from their desks.

    2. Have students sit in alternating seats.


    3. Go around the testing room and observe
    students during testing.
    4. Prohibit the borrowing of materials like pen
    and eraser.
    5. Prepare alternate forms of the test.
    6. Implement established cheating rules.

    Scoring Tests
    Guidelines in Scoring the Objective Test.

    Key to correction has to be prepared in


    advance for the use in scoring the test
    paper.

    Apply the same rules to all students in


    checking the students responses to the test
    questions

    Score each part of the test to have a clear


    picture of how students fared in order to
    determine areas they failed to master.

    Sum up scores for grading purposes.

    Scoring the Essay test


    2 ways of scoring an essay test:
    1. Holistic scoring. A total score is assigned to
    each essay question based on the teachers
    general impression or over-all assessment.
    Answers to an essay question are classified
    into the following categories:
    Outstanding, very satisfactory, fair, and
    poor. A score value is assigned to each of
    these categories.

    Outstanding gets the highest score while poor


    responses gets the lowest score.

    2. Analytic Scoring. The essay is


    scored in terms of its components.
    An essay scored in this manner has
    separate points for organization of
    ideas, grammar and spelling, and
    supporting arguments or proofs.

    Ensuring Objectivity in
    Scoring an Essay Test
    Guidelines:
    1. Decide what factors constitute a good answer
    before administering an essay question.
    2. Explain these factors in the test item.

    3. Read all answers to a single question before


    reading other questions.
    4. Reread essay answers a second time after
    initial scoring

    Conducting Post-test
    Review
    After scoring a test and recording
    results, teachers have to provide
    the students with information on
    their performance. This can be
    done by writing comments on the
    test paper to indicate how students
    fared in the test. Answers to the
    items have to be reviewed in class
    for the students to know where
    they committed mistakes.

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