chapter 7

Question 1

What is a supply type item?

Answer 1

short answer

Question 2

which item type would provide the highest score based on guessing alone

Answer 2

true-false

Question 3

which item type would be the most effective for measuring the ability to distinguish between factual and opinion statements

Answer 3

true-false

Question 4

which item type is least useful for diagnosing learning disabilities

Answer 4

true-false

Question 5

which item type can provide the same test tasks but do it more effectively?

Answer 5

matching

Question 6

short-answer test items are clearly superior to matching or true-false items in measuring

Answer 6

computational skill

Question 7

the main shortcoming in using short answer items is the difficulty of

Answer 7

scoring them

Question 8

which of the following is the best stated short answer item

Answer 8

the author of silas marner is

Question 9

which of the following is the best stated short answer item

Answer 9

a test that is reliable is not necessarily ______ or useful

Question 10

in correcting a short answer test to measure knowledge of specific principles, a teacher deducted one point from the total score for each misspelled word. How could this procedure affect test results

Answer 10

lowers validity

Question 11

in testing mathematics in large scale testing programs, many of the advantages of supply type items can be maintained by using

Answer 11

grid-in items

Question 12

all of the following are limitations of short answer EXCEPT they

Answer 12

reduce the chance of guessing the correct answer

Question 13

all whales are mammals because they are large, would be poor testing practice because

Answer 13

misinformation could lead to the correct answer

Question 14

which of the following is the best stated TF item

Answer 14

a rising barometer forecasts fair weather

Question 15

absolute terms like ALL or NONE that provide clues in true false statements are called

Answer 15

specific determiners

Question 16

a true false test can be made more reliable by

Answer 16

increasing the number of items

Question 17

which of the following true false items statements has a specific determiner

Answer 17

Alaska is never hot in the summer

Question 18

matching items are most useful for measuring learning outcomes at the level of

Answer 18

knowledge

Question 19

the matching item is a modified form of the

Answer 19

multiple choice item

Question 20

a difficulty in constructing matching items is that of finding material that requires

Answer 20

relating

Question 21

a difficulty in constructing matching items is finding material that is

Answer 21

homogeneous

Question 22

guessing on a matching item can be reduced by

Answer 22

using responses more than once

Question 23

excessive use of matching items will most likely result in the overemphasis on

Answer 23

rote learning

Question 24

which type of item has the greatest chance of measuringirrelevant material

Answer 24

matching

Question 25

T/F one way to cut down on the assessment of irrelevant info in matching items is to write them first as true false questions

Answer 25

false

Question 26

one problem with true false items is that when a false item is correct, it does not measure whether the student actually knows the info that makes the item true

Answer 26

agree

Question 27

in which type of questions would interrater reliability probably be an issue

Answer 27

short answer

Question 28

why should a teacher probably not take off for spelling when scoring a short answer question?

Answer 28

lowers validity