Developing Assessment Instruments

Match the criterion-referenced test with its use.

• assesses all objectives, especially focusing on the terminal objective

• Pretests

• assesses skills that learners must have already mastered before beginning instruction

• Posttests

• enables learners to rehearse new knowledge and skills

• Practice Tests

• determines whether learners have previously mastered some or all skills included in the instruction

• Entry Skills Tests

Choose ALL of the following objective behaviors that could be assessed with a multiple-choice test.

• Solve

• Construct

• Discuss

• Identify

• Define

Order the following instrument development steps.

• Sequence the elements on the instrument.

• Select the type of judgement to be made by the evaluator.

• Paraphrase each element.

• Identify the elements to be evaluated.

• Determine how the instrument will be scored.

Tests should include ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   directions. Beginning a test usually causes ​ (c)   among learners, who are judged according to their ​ (d)   on the test. There should be no ​ (e)   in their minds about what they are to do to perform correctly on the test.

• clear
• concise
• anxiety
• performance
• doubt

Objective test include test items that are ​ (a)   for ​ (b)   to complete and ​ (c)   to score. The answers are ​ (d)   and typically scored as correct or incorrect, and judging correctness of an answer is ​ (e)   .

• easy
• learners
• designers
• short
• straightforward