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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
FINAL EXAMINATION
EDUCATION 3-Assessment of Student Learning 1
First Semester S.Y. 2015-2016
Name: _____________________________Block: _______ Time: _________ Score: _______
TEST I TRUEFALSE TEST
Directions: Read each sentence carefully. Write TRUE if the sentence is correct; if NOT, write
the correct word/s to make it correct.
_________1. A negatively skewed score distribution denotes low performance of the group.
_________2. A .score distribution having two modes is known as binomonial.
_________3. Group data is usually done when the n is less than 30
_________4. The measures of variability describe how compressed or expanded the
distribution of scores are.
_________5. In a positively skewed distribution, the students have high performances.
_________6..Leptokurtic kurtosis indicates compressed scores.
_________7. The median is NOT affected by extremely low scores
_________8. Quartile refers to a score distribution where the scores are divided into different
equal parts .
_________9. To determine the number of students who belong to the upper 10 percent in Mr
Reyes class, considering their general average in grade 6, he can compute
using the formula for P 90.
_________10. Given the same score distribution, results of Q1, and P25 can be the same.
_________11.. To locate the 3rd quartile, we find the value that divides the scores into two
groups which are the upper 25% and the lower 75%.
_________12. Table of specification is done prior to construction of test items.
_________13. In a normal score distribution, the mean is the highest and median is the lowest
_________14. Standard deviation (sd) is equal to the square root of the variance.
_________15. In TOS, desired number of item in a particular objective is computed by dividing
the total number of desired items over number of hours taught.
TEST II. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Read each sentence carefully. Choose the best answer. Write the letter of your
choice on the space provided before the number.
___16. In a one hundred-item test, what does Gils score of 70 mean?
A. He surpassed 70 of his classmates in terms of scores.
B. He surpassed 30 percent of his classmates in terms of scores.
C. He got a score above mean.
D. She got 70 items correctly.
___17. After scoring, Teacher G got the difference of the highest and lowest scores in each
class. What did she compute?
A. Standard deviation
C. Median
B. Range
D. Mean
____18. How should the test results be used to advantage?
A. As index of comparing achievement
B. As indicator of learners knowledge of subject matter
C. As means of assessing students performance in the subject
D. As indicators of learners performance with respect to competencies in the subject
areas
___19. Which is TRUE when standard deviation is small?
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A.
B.
C.
D.

Scores are tightly bunched together.

The bell curve is relatively flat.
Scores are toward both ends.
Scores are spread apart.

___20. A negative discrimination index means ___________________.

A. the test item has low reliability
B. more from the upper group answered the test item correctly
C. more from the lower group answered the test item correctly
D. the test item could not discriminate between the upper and the lower group
___21. A criterion-referenced test is designed to determine whether or not a student has
__________.
A.
performed higher than the other members of a group
B.
reached a performance level on a specific skill
C.
performed well in a wide content coverage
D.
reached a present target
___22.

What should you do with an item with difficulty index of .98?

A. Revise it.
C. Retain it.
B. Reject it.
D Reserve it for another section.

___23. Complete this analogy:

Formative assessment: Assessment for Learning
Summative Assessment: ____________________
A. Assessment of Learning
C. Assessment in Learning
B. Assessment as Learning
D. Assessment with Learning
___24. Which assessment leads students to become self-directed and independent learners?
A. Formative assessment
C. Assessment as learning
B. Summative assessment
D. Assessment for learning
___25. Which kind of assessment tells us what the student needs to learn?
A. diagnostic
B. summative

C. formative
D. formative and summative

For questions 26 - 29
LL UL
20 24
15 19
10 14
5- 9
_____26. What is the lower class limit in the first group/class?
A. 19.5
B. 20

C. 22
D. 24

_____27. What is the class size?

A. 3
B. 5
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_____28. What is the class boundary in the lowest class/group?

A. 5
C. 5 - 9
B. 7
D. 5.5 -9.5
_____29 What is the class mark of the second group/class?
A. 5
C. 17
B. 12
D. 22
_____30. The sum of all the scores in a distribution is always equal to:
A. The mean times N
B. The mean divided by N
C. The mean times the interval size
D. The mean divided by the sum of all scores
____31. When is computation of the different measures done using grouped data?
A. When the n is odd number
B. When the n is at least 15
C. When the n is more than 30
D. When the n is = to or less than 30
____32.
A.
B.
C.
D.

Skewed score distribution means:

The scores are normally distributed.
The mean and the median are equal.
Consist of academically poor students.
The scores are concentrated more at one end or the other end

___32. What should be the desired number of classes if there are 35 students?
A. 5
C. 7
B. 6
D. 8
___33. Median is the 50th percentile as Q3 is to:
A. 25th percentile
B. 45th percentile

C. 70th percentile
D. 75th percentile

___34. What is implied when score distribution in Teacher Miguels class is positively skewed?
A. Most students got low scores.
B.
Most students got high scores.
C. Most students got average scores.
D. Most of the students passed the test.
____35. Teacher Jhonson gave a test in English. Most of the students got scores above the
mean. What is the graphical representation of their scores?
A. Skewed to the right
C. Mesokurtic
B. Skewed to the left
D. Platykurtic
___36 The following are measures of central tendency EXCEPT
A. Rank
C.. Mean
B. Mode
D. . Median
___37. It is described as the most reliable measure of central tendency.
A. Median
C. Rank
B. Median
D. Mean
___38. Which of the following describes the median?
A.
The most common score in a set of scores
B.
The most valid measure of central location
C.
The middlemost item or score in a group of scores
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D.

The middlemost score or value in a distribution of scores arranged in order of

magnitude.

___39. Which of the following tells about the mode?

A.
The most frequent score
B. The middlemost score
C. The highest and lowest scores
D. The average score
___40. Given the scores; 94, 83, 83, 91, 94, 86, 80, 82, 81, 83, 85.
What does the score 83 in the distribution means?
A. Median
C. Median and Mode
B. Mean and Mode
D. Mode only
For items 41-43
Scores in a Math class: 48 47 46 46 45 44 43 43 43
41 40 40 40 39 38 37 36 35
___41. What is the mean?
a. 40.5
c. 41.35
b. 41.0
d. 42.10
___42.. The score distribution is considered as
a. Unimodal
c. Multimodal
b. Bimodal
d. Polymodal
___43. What is the median?
A. 46
C. 42.5
B. 43
D 41.5
___44. The scores of Teacher Glenns students in Science are as follows:
88, 84, 86, 75, 88, 83, 79, 85, 90, and 92
What are the Mean, Median and Mode?
A.
85.5, 88, 88
C. 85, 88, 85.5
B.
85.5, 85, 88
D. 85, 85.5, 88

42
34

For numbers . 45-47

Scores
50-59
40-49
30-39
20-29
10-19

F
14
39
37
7
3

.
___45. In which group/class is the median?
A.
In between 10-19 and 20-29
C. In the class/group of 40-49
B.
In the class/group of 30-39
D. In the class/group 50-59
___46. . How many students got a score above 39?
A. 10
C. 39
B. 13
D. 53
___47. Which interval have the students got the most score?
A. 20-39
C. 40-49
B. 30-39
D. 50-59

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___48.

An admission officer of a certain university conducted four batches of entrance

examination for scholarship. The results are the following:

Batch I :average = 85.75 with 15 examinees. Batch II: average =90.25 with 15
examinees. Batch III :average=85.75 with 20 examinees and Batch IV
:average=89.25 with 10 examinees. What is the overall average of the examinees?
A. 87.46
C. 88.80
B. 88.50
D. 89.00
___.49. The following are set of statistical measures that are used to find the specific location of
a point that determines percentage of test scores in the distribution. Which does not belong to
the group?
A. Percentiles
C Quartiles
B. Deciles
D.. Range
___50. The point which divides the score into four is the ____________.
A. Deciles
C. Percentiles
B. Quartiles
D. Range
___51. Deciles five (D5) is equivalent to the following points EXCEPT
A. Median
C. Mean
B. P50
D. Q2
___52. . Which of the following measures is equivalent to Quartile 1?
A.. P25
C. P30
B.. D2
D. D5
___53.

___54.

Which of the following measures are computed in the same way as the median?
A. Mean
C. Percentile
B. Mode
D. Range
Ronnie is in the 80th percentile rank in the Math test. What does it mean?
A. Ronnies score is 80 percent.
B. Ronnie got a score of 80 in the test.
C. Ronnie answered 80 percent out of the 100 questions in the test.
D. Ronnie obtained a score higher than 80 percent of the students in the class.

___55.

Annie obtained a 97 percentile rank in an aptitude test. This means

A. She answered 97% of the items correctly
B. She belongs to the 97% of the group who took the test
C. 97% of the examinees did better than her on the test
D. She surpassed 97% of those who took the test.

___56. How is Range determined?

A. Highest score plus lowest score
B.. Highest score times lowest score
C. Highest score minus lowest score
D. . Highest score divided by the lowest score
___57..
A.
B.
C.

If the computed range is small, this means that :

The students performed very well in the test
The difference between the highest and the lowest score id high
The students performed very poorly in the test

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D. The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low.
___58. The measure of dispersion that involves all scores in the distribution rather than
through extreme scores.
A. Standard deviation
C. Range
B. Quartile deviation
D. Variance
___59. Standard deviation is to variability as mode to _____________.
A. Correlation
C. Central tendency
B. Discrimination
D. Variability
___60. Which is true when the standard deviation is large?
A.
Scores are concentrated.
C. Scores are spread apart.
B.
Scores are not extremes.
D. The bell-shaped is steep
___61. What do statisticians consider as the best of all measure of variability?
A. Standard deviation
C. Quartile deviation
B. Range
D. Norm
___62. Which set of data would result to 7.2 skewness? (mean, meadian, sd)
A. 32, 22, 5
C. 20, 32, 5
B. 30, 22, 4
D. 32, 20, 5
___63. Which of the following statements is TRUE when standard deviation is large?
A. Scores are concentrated around the mean.
B. Scores are widely spread around the mean.
C. The scores are normally distributed.
D. The mean and median are equal.
___64.. Which of the following group of score distribution is less spread?
A.
sd= 1.5
C. sd= 1.75
B.
sd= 1.65
D. sd= 2.0
___65 Which statement represents criterion-referenced interpretation?
A. Danny did better in solving the linear equation than 80% of representative algebra
students.
B. Students who have reached Dannys level on linear equation , all belong to the top
ten in the class.
C. Dannys score indicates that he is able to solve about two-thirds of all the equations
given in the test
D. Danny being almost always the highest in exams will surely be one of the contenders
for valedictorian in his batch.

___66. Which is a guidance function of a test?

A. Identifying pupils who need corrective teaching
B. Predicting success in future academic and vocational education
C. Assigning marks for courses taken
D. Grouping students for instruction within a class
___67. What will Teacher Alice do if she wants to conduct a norm-referenced evaluation?
l. Find out how well the course competencies were met?
ll. Compare her students performance with other students in the country.
lll. Compare the individual students scores with other students scores.
lV Describe the class performance against a set level mastery.
A. I only
C. ll and lll
B. l and ll
D. lll and lV
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Which of the following item represents norm-referenced statement?

A. Peter was able to get 90 items correctly out of 100 items in mathematics
B. Fitch performed better in the test in mathematics than 88% of his classmates
C. Ritz was ableto solve 88% of the problem correctly
D. Glenn solved 9 problems out of 15 problems correctly.

___69. Your percentile rank in class is 60%. What does it mean?

A. You got 40% of the test items wrongly.
B. You scored less than 60% of the class.
C. You got 60% of the test items correctly.
D. You scored better than 60% of the class.
___70. Which measure of central tendency is most reliable when scores are extremely high or
low?
A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. Cannot be determined unless scores are given

PART II Computation: (10 pts)

A.

B.

Solve for mean, median and mode. (3 pts)

90
69
84
76
85
76
83
85
77
83
84
76
77
72
68
75
84
75
70
82

Using the data below, compute the: (7 pts)

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1.
2.
3.

Mean
Median
Mode

Class

80 - 84
75 - 79
70 - 74
65 - 70
60 - 64
55 - 59
50 - 60
45 - 49
40 - 44
35 - 39
30 - 34
25 - 29
20 - 24

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6
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Quality does not come by accident. It is a product of intention.

Prepared by:
JOY D. IBARDALOZA
CED Faculty

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