1.

CRT
Which of the following is preferred when cutoffs are important?
b. criterion-referenced test

2. Mastery Learning
What problems are associated with mastery learning?
d. all of the above

3. Standards 2
Which of the following in not a basic approach for developing
criterion-referenced standards?
a. behavioral

4. Standards 3
How should criterion-referenced standards be specified?
b. by defining a class or domain of tasks that should be
performed by the individual

5. Mastery Learning 2
What is the order of the basic steps in mastery learning?
c. establishing behavioral objectives, pretesting,
instruction, and posttesting

6. Mastery Learning 3
What name is given to specifically written goals with directions for
how to attain them?
c. behavioral objectives

7. Criterion
What name is given to a test score indicating that a person actually
met the criterion but the field test indicated he did not?
a. false positive

8. Mastery Learning 6
Which of the following contains compatible words?
b. mastery test, criterion, cutoff score

9. CRT 9
Before allowing students to participate in a gymnastics unit, a teacher
administered a safety rules test with the requirement that everyone
score above 80%. This is an example of what type of test?
b. criterion-referenced

10. Criterion 2
False positives result when subjects truly ________ the criterion, but
the field test indicates they ________.
 a. meet; did not

11. Reliability
What statistic is often calculated with criterion-referenced
reliability and validity?
c. chi-square

12. Measurement
What level of measurement is most often associated with criterion-
referenced measurement?
a. nominal

13. CRT12
What statistical test used with CRTs is actually the number of
agreements divided by the total number of classifications made?
c. proportion of agreement

14. Statistical Analysis 2

What does kappa consider that proportion of agreements (P) does not?
a. chance

15. Statistical Analysis 3

What test statistic would be examined by determining how many students
met the cutoff score and how many did not meet the cutoff score for a
test on day 1 and again on day 2?
d. stability reliability

16. Statistical Analysis 4

What test statistic would be evaluated by determining how many students
met the cutoff score and how many did not meet the cutoff score on two
different tests of cardiovascular fitness?
c. equivalence reliability

17. Standards 4
A high school volleyball coach determines that each player must be able
to serve 8 out of 10 serves into the court in overhand fashion. This is
an example of a
a. judgmental standard

18. Definitions
What is the process of interpreting information to make a judgment or
interpretation of its meaning called?
b. evaluation

19. Assessment
Which of the following is not an example of an alternative assessment
technique?
b. completing a 1 mi run/walk test

20. Assessment 3
Which of the following statements concerning alternative assessment is
not true?
a. Alternative assessment lends itself to the use of norm-
referenced standards.

21. Assessment 6
Which of the following test characteristics is considered unimportant
when dealing with alternative assessment techniques?
d. none of the above

22. Assessment 8
What procedure would be recommended to ensure reliable scoring of
alternative assessments?
c. developing well-defined, explicit performance criteria

23. Assessment15
What can you do to help counter bias in alternative assessments?
c. collect several types of data

24. Assessment16
What clarifies student expectations when using alternative assessment?
e. providing explicit directions to the student

25. Assessment17
What do you want to increase most as the consequences of alternative
assessments increase?
d. the validity of the measurement

26. Assessment18
To whom are you referring when discussing meaningfulness in alternative
assessments?
e. students

27. Portfolio 2
A portfolio consists of
b. examples of student work

28. Assessment21
Which of the following doesn't belong with the others?
c. norm-referenced assessment
29. Assessment22
Which of the following is not an alternative assessment measurement
technique?
d. true/false tests

30. Assessment23
What is the most commonly used measurement technique used in
alternative assessment?
b. observation

31. Assessment24
What type of standards are most often associated with alternative
assessment and why?
a. criterion-referenced, because of the subjectivity involved

32. Grading
What important testing principle would be violated most by using
successful completion of the FITNESSGRAM testing program as the primary
factor to determine the final grade for students completing a touch
football unit?
c. validity

33. Grading 3
Ideally, which of the following should be most reflected in a student's
grade?
d. the achievement of the student

34. Grading 4
Which of the following are problems in grading on improvement?
d. all of the above

35. Grading 6
What is the biggest disadvantage of using arbitrary standards in
grading?
a. consistency

36. Grading 7
What best describes grading?
c. a summative evaluation

37. Grading 9
Which statement would most likely be made by a teacher using an
absolute grading system?
b. All scores below 70% of the maximum will be considered
failures.
38. Grading10
Which of the following is not one of the four basic steps in the
process of grading?
d. revising course objectives based on results

39. Grading14
Subjectivity in determining grades negatively affects which of the
following attributes most seriously?
c. reliability

40. Grading15
The lack of a clear definition of what a particular grade means
negatively affects which of the following attributes most seriously?
d. validity

41. Domains
Which domain of human experience is most unique to individuals involved
in teaching about and assessing physical activity?
d. psychomotor

42. Objectives
Which of the following is the least important consideration in
determining objectives?
b. whether the necessary facilities are available to meet the
objective

43. Grading16
What is the advantage of considering a grade to be a measurement rather
than an evaluation?
a. It is less susceptible to a particular teacher's
expectations.

44. Domains 2
Which of the following class units would most likely have more weight
placed on objectives from the affective domain than the other units?
a. dance unit (co-ed)

45. Grading17
What should be your first step in the grading process?
e. determine instructional objectives

46. Distribution
Using natural breaks in a distribution rather than sticking with a
predetermined percentage of each grade to be given recognizes what
fallibility of measurement?
 d. reliability

47. Essay
Which of the following is of first concern when you have an essay
examination to grade?
c. objectivity

48. Validity 2
What type of validity is enhanced by having a fellow teacher review the
items on the test?
a. content validity

49. Item Analysis

For a 50-item test given to 140 students, approximately how many of the
answer sheets would be used in an item analysis?
d. 76

50. Test Characteristic

What do item characteristics' difficulty (P) and discrimination (r or
D) affect?
c. both a and b

51. Item Analysis 2

One hundred students are in each of the upper and lower groups. Fifty
students in the upper group and eighty students in the lower group got
a question correct. What is the index of difficulty of this question?
d. .65

52. Item Analysis 3

One hundred students are in each of the upper and lower groups. Fifty
students in the upper group and eighty students in the lower group got
a question correct. What is the index of discrimination of this
question?
b. .30

53. Test Characteristic 2

What characteristic of a written test would be most enhanced if every
student were equally skilled in test taking?
d. validity

54. Test Characteristic 3

What major advantage do multiple-choice questions have over true/false
items?
b. Guessing is less of a factor.
55. Test Characteristic 4
Which of the following is most important for an achievement test?
b. the discrimination index

56. Testing 2
Ideally, how difficult should the items be that comprise written
achievement tests?
b. Most items should be of middle difficulty.

57. Testing 3
Poor item discrimination leads to
a. unreliability

58. Item Analysis 5

If six of eight pupils answered a question correctly, what is the index
of difficulty of the question?
c. 75%

59. Test Characteristic 5

Which of the following factors will ensure that a test is objective?
a. a well-defined scoring method for the test

60. Test Characteristic 6

What characteristic does an item that is answered correctly by a larger
number of good students than poor students display?
b. positive discrimination

61. Test Characteristic 8

If you could obtain only one piece of information about a test, what
would you like to see?
e. validity coefficient

62. Testing 4
What major advantage do multiple-choice questions have over essay
items?
d. Objectivity is greater with multiple-choice items.

63. Testing 5
Other things being equal, increasing the number of items on a test also
increases
c. reliability

64. Testing 6
Which of the following is an important advantage of the multiple-choice
test?
 a. wide sampling

65. Test Characteristic 9

What characteristic is measured by the Kuder-Richardson formulas?
c. reliability

66. Item Analysis 7

One hundred fifty students have taken your written test. Approximately
how many answer sheets should you use to conduct an item analysis by
hand?
d. 80

67. Testing 8
What increases when additional items are added to a written test?
b. reliability

68. Essay 2
What is the major difference between objective and essay items?
a. Objective items are more reliable.

69. Multiple Choice 2

What is the best way to make a multiple-choice question less difficult?
c. use heterogeneous responses

70. Testing 9
What type of objective test item is most seriously affected by blind
guessing?
b. true/false

71. Essay 3
Which of the following should not be done when grading essay exams?
c. sort the papers into three to five rough piles according
to a quick inspection of the overall paper

72. Testing12
Which of the following considerations in constructing a written test
should be fairly well established before the course begins?
a. the emphasis to be given various topics

73. Testing13
Generally, how many questions could be included on a test so that about
90% of a class of high school or college students would be expected to
complete the test in 1 hr?
d. 60 multiple-choice or 120 true/false
74. Testing14
Using which of the following testing formats is most likely to lead to
the use of good test construction techniques?
d. objective tests

75. Testing15
A teacher is scheduled to give an examination to four classes on
December 1. The teacher begins coaching duties on December 1. If the
four classes have been covering the same material in class and average
25 pupils each, what type of test should the teacher administer?
c. multiple-choice; more time to construct the test than to
correct it

76. Test Characteristics

Which is most likely to increase as the variance increases on a written
test?
c. reliability of the test

77. Test Characteristics 2

What can be said about a test item that discriminates negatively?
d. It is not valid.

78. Item Analysis 9

With what type of test is item analysis typically used?
d. depends on the nature of the test

79. Test Characteristics 3

If a table of specifications calls for 20% of the 50 questions on a
test to measure recall (knowledge) and 30% of them to measure strategy,
how many of the test items should deal with recall (knowledge) of
strategy?
c. 3

80. Untitled
If 20 of 40 in the upper group and 20 of 40 in the lower group choose
the correct answer to a multiple-choice question with five possible
responses, what would the index of discrimination be for the item?
c. .0

81. Item Analysis10

When is an item considered to have good discrimination power?
c. both of the above

82. Testisng
What type of survey would yield very consistent but inaccurate results?
 c. a survey with high bias and high precision

83. Testing16
An open scale survey question gives the respondent
c. the opportunity to write an answer

84. Testing17
A table of specifications for a written test helps to determine
a. what to test for

85. Taxonomy
Which of Bloom's categories of educational objectives is most like
Ebel's category of factual information?
c. knowledge

86. Item Analysis11

To help reduce test anxiety, a question with which index of difficulty
might appear as the first item on the test?
a .05
d. .85

87. Item Analysis12

Which of the following is not considered to be a semi-objective type
question?
b. matching

88. Test Characteristics 4

Which of the following words would least likely appear in a true/false
test item that was keyed as false?
c. generally

89. Matching
What is the least important information to include in the directions
for a matching test item?
b. the point value of the question

90. Taxonomy 2
Use of novel situations in the construction of written test questions
is associated most closely with which of Bloom's educational
objectives?
c. application

91. Item Analysis13

What index of discrimination would be most likely for an intrinsically
ambiguous question?
 a. .50

92. Item Analysis14

If the difficulty index for a test item is .60 and there are 50
students in the high group and 50 students in the low group, what is
the maximum discrimination index this item could achieve?
d. .80

93. Reliability 3 2
What assumption reduces the usefulness of the K-R 21 formula for
estimating the reliability of a written test?
b. All items are of equal difficulty.

94. Questionnaire
With what domain of human experience are questionnaires most closely
associated?
a. affective

95. Questionnaire 2
An open-ended item on a questionnaire is most like which type of
written test item?
c. essay

96. Questionnaire 3
What technique is suggested to determine how well new questionnaire
items function?
b. pilot studies

97. Testing18
What is the most important ancillary device in helping to obtain the
highest response rate for a questionnaire?
d. a cover letter

98. Questionnaire 4
Which of the following is least likely to ensure that a questionnaire
is valid?
a. keeping it as short as possible

99. Testing19
What best describes a dichotomous categorical survey question?
b. a yes/no or true/false answer

100. Questionnaire 5
Which of the following is not an advantage of open-ended items on a
questionnaire?
 d. They reduce ambiguity.

101. Questionnaire 6
When would an open-ended item be more appropriate than a closed-ended
item on a questionnaire?
c. when categorization is difficult

102. Questionnaires
What is saved by setting up a "postage-due" arrangement with the post
office for returned questionnaires?
a. cost

103. Questionnaire 7
If you interviewed some questionnaire respondents and asked them
essentially the same questions that appeared on the questionnaire, what
would you be measuring?
b. reliability

104. Validity 2 2
Developing a table of specifications helps ensure what type of
validity?
a. content

105. Validity 3
What is a major threat to the validity of subjective test items?
a. bias

106. Essay 4
What major advantage do forced-choice test items have over essay test
items?
a. objectivity

107. Test Characteristics 5

What type of ambiguity would you like a test to reflect?
b. extrinsic ambiguity

108. Test Characteristics 6

What does it mean when a test item reflects extrinsic ambiguity?
d. Poorer students had difficulty answering the item.

109. Reliability 4 2
What effect do intrinsically ambiguous items have on a test's
reliability?
d. They reduce the test's reliability.
110. Multiple Choice 3
What should you do when constructing multiple-choice test items?
b. make the stem in the form of a question

111. Essay 5
Analytically scoring an essay test rather than globally scoring an
essay test
b. reduces potential bias

112. Testing20
Careful test writing, planning, administrating will
d. two of the above

113. Test Characteristic10

What advantage does K-R 21 have over K-R 20?
b. easier to calculate

114. Testing21
A test should consist of items of what level of difficulty?
c. average difficulty

115. Testing22
What would you like to know if you could learn only one thing about an
achievement test item?
b. discrimination

116. Questionnaire 8
Open-ended questionnaire items have what potential problem?
c. bias

117. Questionnaire 9
What advantage do closed-ended questionnaire items have over open-ended
questionnaire items?
c. ease of scoring

118. Questonnaire
What is the most important aspect of the respondents to your
questionnaire?
d. the representativeness of the population

119. Questionnaire10
What is the most important aspect of your questionnaire?
d. validity
120. Item Analysis15
The following information was obtained on a recent item analysis. The
correct option to this sample item was c. Option A: difficulty = .14
and discrimination = -.10. Option B: difficulty = .20 and
discrimination = -.24. Option C: difficulty = .48 and discrimination
= .48. Option D: difficulty = .18 and discrimination = -.01. Estimate
the quality of the above item.
e. good item