Objective Testing

VS
Subjective Testing
 Objective Testing
• Wiersma and Jurs (1990) said
that objective test items are
items that can be objectively
scored items on which person
select a response from the list of
options.
Subjective Testing
• Arikunto (2007) states that
subjective test is generally test
which needs answers in form of
essay, explanation or description.
 Objective Testing Subjective Testing
• No Judgement required • Judgement required
• Only one correct answer • Several possible correct
responses

Example : Example :
• Multiple-choice, true-false, • Short Answer, essay
matching, fill-in-the-blank
 Strength
Objective test
• Large numbers of questions
that can be answered in a
relatively short time
• Items can be “banked” and
re-used
• Easy to adminster and mark
Subjective test
• Not give any oppurtinities
to speculate or cheat
• Provides students
oppurtunities to express
their opinions
• Teacher can have a better
view of their students
competence
 Weakness
Objective test Subjective test
• It is not possible to see the • It takes much time to
reasoning behind a wrong evaluate it
answer
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