ASSESSMENT OF

LEARNING
Assessment FOR
What is ASSESSMENT? learning
 Diagnostic Test
 Formative Assessment
 Placement Test
 Aptitude Test
 Assessment OF learning
 Assessment AS learning
TESTING
 Test
 Table of Specifications
Types of test according to
scope and content

Survey
Mastery Test
Types of test according to Time
Limit and Level of Difficulty

 Power
 Speed
Types of test according to Effect
of Biases
Objective
 Subjective
Types of test according to
Interpretation
 Norm-Referenced
 Criterion-Referenced
Types of test according to Purpose
 Achievement Test
 Aptitude Test
 Personality Test
Intelligence Test
MEASUREMENT
EVALUATION
MODES OF ASSESSMENT
1. Traditional Assessment
COGNITIVE TAXONOMY

BLOOM’S ANDERSON’S,
ET. AL
Knowledge Remembering
Comprehension Understanding
Application Applying
Analysis Analyzing
Synthesis Evaluating
Evaluation Creating
MODES OF ASSESSMENT
2. Alternative Assessment
Performance-based Assessment
 Process-oriented
 Product-oriented
Portfolio
Showcase Portfolio
 Process Portfolio
 Evaluation Portfolio

3. Authentic Assessment
TYPES OF ASSESSMENT
TOOL
Student Progress Card
 Checklist
 Rating Scale
TYPES OF ASSESSMENT
TOOL
Scoring Rubric
 Analytic
 Holistic
 Semantic-Differential Scale
 Likert Scale
Validity vs Reliability
Validity
 Content Validity
 Criterion Validity
 Concurrent Validity
 Predictive Validity
 Construct Validity
 Face Validity
Reliability
 Test-Retest
 Alternative Forms
 Split-half
 Kuder Richardson Formula
FACTORS AFFECTING
RELIABILITY
 Test Length
 Difficulty of items
 Objective Scoring
 Time
ITEM ANALYSIS
 Difficulty Index

20 and below (0-0.20)

Score
Skewness
Skewed to the left
 Skewed to the right
MEASURE OF CENTRAL
TENDENCIES
 Mean
 Median
 Mode
MEASURE OF VARIABILITY
 Range
 Standard Deviation
 Variance
MEASURES OF RELATIVE
POSITION
 Percentile
 Decile
 Quartile
 Stanine
K-12 CLASSROOM
ASSESSMENT
 Formative Assessment
 Summative Assessment
 Content Standard
 Performance Standard
 Components:
 Written Work
 Performance Task
 Quarterly Assessment
K-12 GRADING SYSTEM
90 and above Outstanding
85-89 Very Satisfactory
80-84 Satisfactory
75-79 Fairly Satisfactory
74 and below Did not meet
expectations
90-94 WITH HONORS
95-97 WITH HIGH HONORS
98-100 WITH HIGEST HONORS
GRADE 1- GRADE 10
GRADING SYSTEM
WRITTEN PERFORMAN QUARTERLY
CE ASSESSMENT
Languages, AP, ESP 30 50 20

Science, Math 40 40 20

MAPEH, TLE 20 60 20
GRADE 11 AND GRADE 12
GRADING SYSTEM
1. Assessment of learning is
__________ for the teaching
process.
A.Integral
B.Auxiliary
C.Add-on
D.Enriched
2. What kind of assessment helps
teachers determine gaps in learning a
subject matter?
A.Formative Assessment
B.Summative Assessment
C.Diagnostic Test
D.Placement Examination
3. Which assessments is/are used to determine the
grade of the students?
I. Formative Assessment
II. Summative Assessment
III.Assessment of learning

A.I only
B. I and III
C.I and II
D.II and III
4. Teacher Prince makes sure that he checks
understanding to ensure that the students are
following the lesson. Of what part of assessment
is she occupied with?
A. Assessment for learning
B. Assessment of learning
C. Assessment as learning
D. Assessment for and as learning
5. If the teacher favors “assessment for learning’,
which will she do most likely?
A. Conduct a pretest, formative and summative
test.
B. Teach based on pretest results.
C. Give specific feedback to students.
D. Conduct peer tutoring for students in need
of help.
6. The first thing to do in constructing a
periodic test is for a teacher to
A. Study the content
B. Go back to instructional objectives
C. Decide on the number of items for the
test
D. Decide on the type of test to construct
7. For mastery learning, which type of
testing will be most fit?
A. Norm-referenced testing
B. Formative testing
C. Criterion-referenced testing
D.Aptitude testing
8. Teacher Abby is engaged in criterion-reference interpretation of
scores. Which of the following does she do?
A. She uses specified population of persons as its interpretative
frame of reference.
B. She describes every individual student performance in relation
to the clearly-defined learning task.
C. She describes every individual student performance in relation
to the performance of the age group of the student.
D. She compares every individual student performance with the
performance of the rest.
9. In group norming, the percentile rank of
the examinee is
A.dependent on his batch of examinees.
B.independent on his batch of examinees.
C.unaffected by skewed distribution.
D.affected by skewed distribution.
10. If teacher wants to test student’s ability to
organize ideas, which type of test should she
formulate?
A.Technical problem type
B.Multiple choice type
C.Short answer
D.Essay
11. Which of the following is an accurate
description of an authentic assessment?
A. Attending a lecture on Botany
B. Performing first-aid measures to scald burns
C. Conducting a seminar on breastfeeding
D. Answering a multiple choice exam
12. Which will be the most authentic assessment
tool for an instructional objective on working
with and relating to people?
A. Writing articles on working and relating to
people
B. Organizing a community project
C. Home visitation
D. Conducting mock election
13. The teacher wants to diagnose in which
vowel sound(s) her students have difficulty.
Which tool is most appropriate?
A. Portfolio assessment
B. Performance test
C. Journal entry
D. Paper-and-pencil test
14. Which test will the Guidance Office of the
school give if he wants to help students in
predicting their probable success in specific
educational and vocational fields?
A. Diagnostic Test
B. IQ Test
C. Achievement Test
D. Aptitude Test
15. A teacher would use a standardized test
to:
A. Serve as a unit test
B. Engage in easy scoring
C. Compare her students to national norms
D. Serve as a final examination
16. Which are the direct measures of
competence?
A. Personality tests
B. Paper and pencil tests
C. Performance tests
D. Standardized tests
17. Which learning episode involves
documentation that is clear, well-organized
and creative?
A. Portfolio
B. Reflection
C. Field study report
D. Essay
18. In Outcome-Based Education,
which of the following are not
considered as outcomes?
A. Products
B. Portfolios
C. Performances
D. Procedures
19. To have a test with a coverage and with
power to test analytical thinking and case
scoring, which should the teacher use?
A. Alternative Response
B. Completion
C. Short Answer
D. Multiple Choice
20. Which of the following is the least
applicable in measuring higher level of
achievement?
A. Multiple Choice
B. True-False
C. Matching
D. Completion
21. What is incorrect in this item?
The Philippines
A. is in Southeast Asia
B. has a democratic form of government
C. belongs to the Third World
D. is the most thickly populated in Southeast Asia

I. The stem does not contain the question.

A. I only B. III
C. II only D. I and III
22. Which improvement(s) should be done on this
completion test item:
An example of a mammal is _____________.
A. The question should have only one acceptable answer.
B. The blank should be at the beginning of the
sentences.
C. The item should give more clues.
D. The blank should be longer to accommodate all
possible answers.
23. Which is an incorrect practice in test
construction?
A. Never use an identifiable pattern
B. When using numbers as options, arrange them in
descending order
C. Multiple choice type of test is always more
objective than essay ones
D. Using of student codes instead of their real names
to prevent horn error of halo effect
24. Which of the following is a restricted essay test?
A. What should the Department of Education do to solve
the perennial problems of poor quality of basic
education? Give and justify your proposals.
B. If you were the president of the Philippines, what would
you do to spur the nation’s economic growth?
C. What conditions must be present for photosynthesis to
take place? Explain each factor in not more than three
sentences.
D. Why are more and more people sick of Alzheimer’s
disease?
25. Teacher Ann constructed a matching type test. In
his columns of items are combination of events,
people, and circumstances. Which of the following
guidelines in constructing matching type of test did
she violate?
A. List options in alphabetical order.
B. Make list of items homogeneous.
C. Make list of items heterogeneous.
D. Provide three or more options.
26. This test is more liable for
guessing than the other tests.
A. True or false
B. Outlining
C. Story writing
D. Essay
27. Because of its nature, which type of
rubric can be of greater help for student self-
directed leaning?
A. Holistic Rubric
B. Analytic Rubric
C. Combination of holistic and analytic
D. Developmental
28. To evaluate teaching skills,
which is the most authentic tool?
A. Observation
B. Short answer test
C. Non-restricted essay test
D. Essay test
29. Which must go with self-assessment
for it to be effective?
A. Consensus of evaluation results
from teachers and students
B. Scoring rubric
C. External monitor
D. Public display of self-evaluation
30. Which of the following is considered the
most important characteristic of a good test?
A. Administrability
B. Validity
C. Reliability
D. Usability
31. Which of the following is a correct
statement about validity and reliability?
A. A valid test is always reliable
B. A reliable test is always valid
C. Validity and reliability are essentially the
same
D. A valid test is not always reliable
32. Gin’s raw score in the English class is 27 that is
equal to the 75th percentile. What does this imply?
A. 75% of Gin’s classmate got a score lower than 27.
B. Gin’s score is higher than 27% of his classmates.
C. 75% of Gin’s classmate got a score above than 27.
D. Gin’s score is lower than 27% of his classmates.
33. Gavin scored 80 on a percentile-ranked test.
This means that:
A. Gavin got 80% of the question wrong.
B. 80% of the students who took the test
scored higher than Gavin.
C. 80% of the students who took the test
scored lower than Gavin.
D. Gavin got 80% of the question right.
34. In an entrance examination, Andrea’s
percentile is 20 (P20). Based on this Percentile
rank, which is likely to happen?
A. Andrea will be admitted.
B. Andrea has 50-50 percent chance to be
admitted.
C. Andrea will not be admitted.
D. Andrea has 75 percent chance to be admitted.
35. A test item has a difficulty index of 0.85
and a discrimination index of 0.15. What
should the test constructor do?
A. Make it a bonus item
B. Reject the item
C. Retain the item
D. Revise the item
36. In which competency did the students
find the greatest difficulty? In the item with
a difficulty index of ___________.
A. 1.0
B. 0.1
C. 0.5
D. 0.9
37. Which type of statistics is meant to draw out
implications about the population from which is
the sample is taken?
A. Descriptive and inferential
B. Correlational
C. Inferential
D. Descriptive
38. The computed r for English and Math score is -70.
What does this mean?
A. The higher the scores in English, The higher the scores
in Math.
B. The scores in Math and English do not have any
relationship.
C. The higher the scores in Math, the lower the scores in
English.
D. The lower the scores in English, The lower the scores
in Math.
39. A class is composed of academically poor
students. The distribution is:
A. Skewed to the right
B. Normal Curve
C. Leptokurtic
D. Skewed to the left
40. Which measure(s) of central
tendency can be determined by mere
inspection?
A. Mode and Median
B. Mode
C. Median
D.Mean
41. You give a 100-point test; three students make
scores 97, 94 and 92, respectively; and the other 22
students in the class make scores ranging from 25 to
42. The measure of the central tendency which is best
to describe this group of 25 students is
A. Mean
B. Average of median and mode
C. Mode
D. Median
42. Which of the following is not
affected by an extreme score?
A.Range
B. Mode
C.Median
D.Mean
43. In a 40-item test where the mean is 20 and
the standard deviation is 7, Ashton obtained a
score of 18. What descriptive rating should his
teacher give him?
A. Average
B. Poor
C. Below average
D. Above average
44. Study this group of tests which was administered with the
following results, then answer the question:
SUBJECT MEAN SD EL’S
SCORE
Math 50 5 56
Filipino 47 3 51
English 72 4 80
In which subject/s were the scores most homogenous?
A. English
B. Filipino and English
C. Filipino
D. Math
45. Which group of scores is more
varied?
A.0.85 SD
B. 0.92 SD
C.0.2 SD
D.0.50 SD
46. A student gets a numerical grade of 80.
What is the descriptor for his level of
proficiency?
A. Did not meet expectations
B. Satisfactory
C. Fairly satisfactory
D. Very satisfactory
47. Which is the percentage contribution of
the quarterly assessment to the grade of the
student from Grades 1 to 10?
A. 15%
B. 20%
C. 25%
D. 30%
48. In the K-12 Program, how many percent
is given to Performance Tasks in
Mathematics and Science?
A. 40%
B. 60%
C. 20%
D. 50%
49. Is it wise practice to orient our students and
parents on our grading system?
A. No, this will court a lot of complaints later.
B. Yes, but orientation must be only for our
immediate customers, the students.
C. Yes, so from the very start student and their
parents know how grades are derived.
D. No, grades and how they are derived are highly
confidential.
50. Other than the numerical grades found in students’
report cards, teachers are asked to give remarks. On which
belief is this practice based?
A. Numerical grades have no meaning.
B. Giving remarks about each child is part of the
assessment task of every teacher.
C. Remarks, whether positive or negative, motivate both
parents and learner.
D. Grades do not reflect all developments that take place
in every learner.
51. Which is the most appropriate reason for the
teacher engagement in the process of assessment?
A. To find out if the lesson was presented well.
B. To find out whether proper teaching methods
were used.
C. To find out if lesson objectives were attained.
D. To find out if the teacher was effective in
delivering teaching content.
52. What should the teacher require his students to
do for finding out whether an aerial plant can live on
land?
A. Retrieve answers form the internet
B. Research on past similar experiments
C. Copy and paste literature about the experiment
D. Observe the aerial plant’s survival after
transferring to the soil
53. These are factors to consider in the
choice of ways for assessing learning except
______________.
A. Instructional objectives
B. Nature of the learners
C. Logistical support
D. Learning styles of the learners
54. Teacher Dona wrote an objective, to
interpret the meaning of a certain quotation. For
content validity, which should she ask?
A. Is her statement realistic?
B. Do you believe in the statement?
C. What is true about the statement?
D. What is the authentic meaning of the
statement?
55. In using essay questions, which of the
following are these tests susceptible to, such as to
make them less reliable measure of broad
knowledge of the subject matter?
A. Bluffing
B. Time consuming
C. Guessing
D. Cheating
56. In her tests, Teacher Emma made tests that
were too difficult or too easy. What was wrong
with her tests?
A. Unclear directions
B. Identifiable pattern of answers
C. Inappropriate level of difficulty of the test
items
D. Ambiguity
57. Test should be non-threatening, but
which of the following actually threatens
students?
A. Self-record of test scores
B. Scheduled exam
C. Surprise quiz
D. Submission of report
58. The Principal introduced machine-scored
tests in his school. What factor in scoring does
this add to make tests more reliable?
A. Cost-saving
B. Objective scoring
C. Ease in checking
D. Time-economics
59. Emphasis on self-assessment. Teacher Mario
applies this principle by________________.
A. Making her students check their own papers
B. Motivating his students to set their personal
learning goals and tracks their progress against
that goal
C. Preparing her students for higher-order thinking
questions
D. Requiring them scoring as a project
60. Teacher El gave True-False pretest on social justice. Based on
the pretest results, she taught her class social justice by correcting
whatever wrong concepts the students have and affirmed and
expounded on their correct concepts. After correcting their wrong
concepts and affirming their correct answers, Teacher El gave the
class a post test. Among forms of assessment explained, which
one/s did Teacher El do?
A. Assessment for learning
B. Assessment of learning
C. Assessment as learning
D. Assessment for and as learning