Names (Family Name first): Course, Year, Section: BSED-3C

Alaman, Norberto Duco, Valerie Olivia Gacusan, Aila Marie

Gorospe, Chery-Ann Oribello, Christian Mark

Republic of the Philippines

NUEVA VIZCAYA STATE UNIVERSITY
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Prof Ed 6B (Assessment in Learning 1)

Prof Ed 8 (Assessment of Student Learning 1)
1st Semester, 2020-2021

Activity No. 3
Critiquing and Reflections on Desirable Characteristics of Tests

From your readings, work on the following:

1. Critique on the VALIDITY of the given teacher-made test (Attachment A) with the desirable
characteristics of a good test as your guide.

Critiquing (Validity of Tests)

Observed Parameter Comments

Test papers are categorized there are objective test which is a

Appropriateness/Alignment multiple of choice, identifications, enumeration, and last part are
essay exam.
The direction of each part of the exam was very clear and
Direction understandable.

The vocabulary and senteces are well construced. The students

Vocabulary and Sentence will clearly understand as they read it.

The level of difficulty was appropriate to the students because we

Difficulty
Construction of Items
guess when the teacher was able to discussed this all to them they
will surely get the answers of each item. Most of the item, the
answers were already there, they will just choose. And the
difficulty of the exam sometimes will depend on the student. It
will be hard to them when they did not listen to the teacher and
review before the exam or it depends also to the teacher if the
teacher included some items that are not yet discussed, therefore
level of difficulty will be more higher.
Construction of the items was well constructed and able to read
and understand each questions or items.

The lenght of test is good. The lenght is not that long and not that
Length of Test short. It’s enough for the given alloted time in this subject.

The arrangement of the test paper was done properly and clearly.
Arrangement of Items Each type of the test was neat and systematic.

We are unable to give any comment to this part because we have

Topics Covered not yet studied this lessons or taken the subject.

This is one of the most important parameters in making test so

Amount of Emphasis that the examiners will caught there attention.
Reflect on your experiences on classroom testing, then work on the following:

1. State your positive / negative experiences on test validity, format, administration and scoring.
Share with your groupmates and consolidate using the given template.

Positive and Negative Practices in Testing

Positive Experiences Negative Experiences

How tests are constructed

 The test was constucted as an ideal
type exam of a student. It has different
type of exam, and the items are all
discussed and the given instructions
are clear and understandable. The
exam was done it the given period of
time.
 The test was constructed in one type
of exam only, pure essay and its very
lenght and it was time consumming.
The alloted time in this subject was
not enough to finish the exam.

How tests are administered

 The test paper are administered in a
proper way. The teacher make sure
that the exam was propely done and
clear so that students will surely
understand and finish the exam
propely.
 The test paper was not organized. A
lot of students were confused. Some
parts of the exam was not discussed
and incomplete. There were also an
items that don’t have the right answer
on the given choices.

How answers are scored

 When our teacher is reading our
answers to the essay part and giving as
a fair review/score to it. Our teacher is
not biased because, our tecaher based
our scores on the content not on how
long our answers was.
 The negative experienced we had in
giving score to our test is, when our
teacher giving more points to an item
which is very easy( ie. multiple
choice) while giving a less point to an
item which is hard (ie. identification).

How the test content is arranged/presented (format)

 The test was arranged according to the
type of the exam. The teacher
provided us a good quality of an
exam. There were no typograpical
error. The exam started on a easy part
and ended it in a difficult part.
 The exam paper was confusing
because of the arrangement. The
quality of the printing is very low so
most of us was confused and did not
understand some items.

Observed teachers’ possible reasons for giving tests

 The teacher gave us a quiz because the
whole chapter of our lessons is already
done and discussed. In order to test
our knowledge about it, our teacher
announced the class that we will be
having our quiz in the next meeting in
order for us to browse and scan our
past lessons and the whole chapter.
 Our teacher gave us a quiz because
some of our classmates was noisy,
some are not listening, and worst one
of them are sleeping while the teacher
is discussing. so, because of this our
teacher told us that we will be having
our quiz already even though our
discussion is not yet finish.
2. As a future responsible and conscientious teacher (matinong guro), make a resolution (in bullet
form) as regards your testing practices. You may improve what is in the template.

When we will become teachers (RESPONSIBLE AND CONSCIENTIOUS TEACHERS),

we resolve to:
 Provide to our students the besst quality of a test paper.\
 Make sure that every item of the test paper are discussed to them.
 Make sure that it should have contain questions that match the average student’s
ability level.
 Make sure that it should also be possible to respond to all questions in the time
allowed.
 Use the topics list provided in the course outline
 Make sure all the choices are grammatically parallel.
 Tell them ahead of time what will be on the test both in structure and in content.

we resolve not to:

 Make hard for them the test.
 Give a question that is not discussed yet.
 Give one type of exam.
 Give them a low quality of test paper. ( Typograpical errors, Low quality of printing,
etc..)
 Give them a complicated instruction.
 Give them a very lenght exam that is not possible to be done in a given time.

Name and Signature:

ALAMAN, NORBERTO DUCO, VALERIE OLIVIA

GACUSAN, AILA MARIE GOROSPE, CHERY-ANN

ORIBELLO, CHRISTIAN MARK

Reminders:
- Encode your output in a long bond paper.
- Send via pm
Samples of file name: AL1-SectionA-Activity3-Abad
- Date of submission: October 15, 2020

Prepared by:
JANE D. NAVALTA
Professor