TEST DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

Also known as pilot study or pilot research, which refers to the preliminary surrounding the creation of a prototype of the test

Answer 1

Pilot work

Question 2

Every test that is developed is implicitly or explicitly influenced or guided by the theory or theories held by the test developer

Answer 2

The role of theory

Question 3

The process by which measuring device is designed and calibrated and by which numbers (scale values) are assigned to different amounts of trait, attribute or characteristics being measured

Answer 3

Scaling

Question 4

A type of rating scale wherein the final test score is obtained by summing the ratings across all items (e.g. likert scale)

Answer 4

Summative scale

Question 5

Likert scale is developed by?

Answer 5

Rensis likert

Question 6

A type of summative rating scale in which each items presents the testaker with 5 alternative responses (sometimes 7) usually on an agree-disagree or approve-disapprove continuum

Answer 6

Likert scale

Question 7

A type of scaling wherein respondents evaluate two or more objects at one time and objects are directly compared with one another as part of the measuring process

Answer 7

Comparative scaling

Question 8

Test takers are presented with pairs of stimuli (photographs, objects, statements) which they are tasked to compare

Answer 8

Method of paired comparisons