FINAL EXAMINATION

EDUC 351: Assessment of Student Learning

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Do not worry about your exams, trust in God. - Jeremiah 17:7-8

I. True or False. Choose TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is

incorrect.
1. When an item discriminates negatively, such item should be revised and
eliminated from scoring.
2. A positive discrimination index indicates that the lower performing
students selected the key or correct response more frequently
than the top performers.
3. If no one selects the distracter it is important to revise the option and
attempt to make the distracter a more plausible choice.
4. A very difficult item should be discarded.
5. Item difficulty and discrimination are unrelated.
6. Validity refers to the test’s ability to measure what it purports to measure.
7. Validity refers to test characteristic consistent measurement of its
objectives.
8. Test is an instrument used to measure mastery of acquired skills.
9. Very easy items should be retained.
10. In matching type test, longer terms are place in the first column.

II. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Mrs. Gomez does NOT wait for the end of the term to find out how much her
students learn. With which does Mrs. Gomez utilized?
a. Formative evaluation c. Summative evaluation
b. Authentic evaluation d. Non-referenced evaluation

2. Which is a valid assessment tool if you want to find out how well your students
can speak extemporaneously?
a. Performance test c. Display of speech delivered
b. Written quiz d. Writing speech

3. After a lesson about atom, the learners were asked to do a physical model of the
atom to show its structure. What intelligence is being enhanced?
a. Linguistic d. Kinesthetic
b. Interpersonal
c. Mathematical
4. Teachers are encouraged to make use of authentic assessment. Which of the
following best describes it?
a. Unrealistic performances c. Real world applications of
b. Routinized drills lessons learned
d. Answering HOTS questions
5. Which is the most authentic assessment tool for an instructional objective on
working with and relating to people?
a. Conducting mock election c. Organizing community project
b. Home visitation d. Writing articles

6. Analyze the true-false test item and answer the question that follow: Andres
Bonifacio founded the Katipunan. Which principle in test construction was not
observed?
a. Test something significant c. Sufficient reasoning
b. Make use of simple words d. Avoid qualitative terms

7. Here is Teacher Dina’s lesson objective: To trace the causes of Alzheimer’s

disease.” Which is a valid essay test item for this objective?
a. Do young people also get attacked by Alzheimer’s disease? Support your
answer.
b. What is an Alzheimer’s disease?
c. Can an Alzheimer’s’ disease be traced to old age? Explain your answer.
d. To what factors can Alzheimer’s disease can be traced? Explain.

8. Which is a restricted essay test?

a. What should the DepEd do to solve the Perennial problems in the poor quality
of basic education?
b. If you were the president of the Philippines, what would you to spur the
nation’s economic growth?
c. What conditions must be present for photosynthetic process to take place?
Explain each factor.
d. Why and more people got sick of Alzheimer’s’ disease?

9. Which of the following statements is/are NOT TRUE about assessment?

I. Feedback is the most important factor in assessment.
II. Only those that can be objectively measures should be taught.
III. Assessment should follow a developmental pattern.
IV. After error analysis a remediation should be done.
a. II only c. III and IV
b. IV only d. I and II

10. DepEd’s lowest failing grade in the report card is %

a. 60% c. 70%
b. 65% d. 75%

11. You gave an open ended questionnaire to your learners, what scoring guide
should be used?
a. Outputs c. Rubrics
b. Outcomes d. Scales
12. Which of the following are alternative forms of assessments?
a. Portfolio, exhibits, journals c. Self-assessment, surveys
b. Short quiz, reporting, d. Multiple choice test
recitation

13. When a student clarifies information from conclusion, what cognitive domain is
involved?
a. Analysis d. Synthesis
b. Evaluation
c. Application
14. Which of the following statements concerning test validity and reliability is most
accurate?
a. A valid test is reliable.
b. A reliable test is valid.
c. A test can not be valid and reliable it is objective.
d. A test can not be valid and reliable unless it is standardized.

15. The difficulty index of a test item is .50. This means that the test item is .
a. Valid c. Very easy
b. Moderate difficulty d. Reliable

16. The discrimination index of a test item is -35. What does this mean?
a. More from the upper group got the item correctly.
b. More from the lower group got the item correctly.
c. The test item is reliable.
d. The test item is valid.

17. If the difficulty index of a test item is .98, what should you do with this item?
a. Revise it c. Retain it
b. Reject it d. Reserve it

18. Here are the raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 75, 50, 10. To get a picture of
the group’s performance, which measure of central tendency is most
stable?
a. Mode c. Median
b. Mean d. Standard deviation

19. Here are the raw scores in an Araling Panlipunan quiz: 97, 95, 83, 77, 75,50,
10,5, 2, 1. Whis number is the median?
a. 75 c. 76
b. 52 d. 77

20. Which is TRUE when standard deviation is small?

a. Scores are tightly bunched c. Scores are spread apart
together d. Scores are toward to both
b. The bell curved is relatively extremes.
flat.
21. There is a negative correlation between amount of practice and number of errors
in tennis. What does this mean?
a. The increase in the amount of practice does not at all affect the number of
errors.
b. Decrease in the amount of practices goes with the decrease in the number of
errors.
c. As the amount of practice increases, the number of errors decreases.
d. The decrease in the amount of practice affects the number of errors.

22. Which Pearson r value indicates a strong negative correlation?

a. -75 c. -25
b. -10 d. -1

23. What can be said of student performance in a positively skewed score distribution?
a. Almost all students had an average performance
b. A few students performed excellently.
c. Most students performed poorly
d. Most students performed well.

24. A test item has a difficulty index of .51 and a discriminating index of .25. What
should the teacher do?
a. Make it a bonus item. c. Revise the item
b. Retain the item d. Reject the item

25. After scoring Teacher Jack computed the highest and lowest score in each class.
What did he compute?
a. Mean c. Mode
b. Median d. Range

III. Problem Solving. Perform the needed statistical procedure to get the required
values.

1. Given below are the mean percentage scores of Grade 8-Diamond, using it as
raw data compute what is asked below:
90, 80, 75, 91, 70, 83, 87, 88, 77, 81

a. Arrange the data from lowest to highest-italicized the Highest Score (HS)
and Lowest Score (LS)
b. Range= (HS-LS)/5 or /10 prefer the lower range
c. Create a frequency distribution graph (either line or bar graph)
d. Mean
e. Median
f. Mode
g. Kurtosis
h. Skewness
i. Interpretation(Briefly explain the meaning of computed
values):
 2. Table of Completion. Solve for the discrimination and difficulty index of the
following test items.

Item no. 1 2 3
LG UG LG UG LG UG
Correct 12 18 17 13 14 16
responses
No. of 25 25 30 30 30 30
Students
Difficulty
Index
Interpretation
Discrimination
Index
Interpretation

IV. Essay. Answer the following briefly. (10 points each)

1. Differentiate extended and restricted essay tests. Describe the two concepts
extensively and give examples.

2. Explain why multiple-choice type of test is preferred in various educational

purposes.

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