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Educational Testing & Grading, Professor Gregory E. Stone.
© 2004 Gregory E. Stone. All rights reserved. This presentation may not be reproduced in any form, in part or as a whole, without the express written permission of the author.
OBJECTIVE ITEMS
Objective items do notrequire human interpretationduring the scoring process.
The term “objective” refers to the manner in which an item is scored.
Objective items come inmany shapes and sizes.
True-False
Matching
Multiple-choice
Fill-in-the-Blank*
True-False ItemsGeorge Washington was the first
president of the United States.
True False
True-False ItemsGeorge Washington was the first
president of the United States.
True False
Problems:
Either Too Easy or Too Esoteric
50/50 chance - Easy guessing
True-False ItemsGeorge Washington was the first
president of the United States.
True False
Center on moderate difficulty.
Create thoughtful items, avoiding
Knowledge.
Matching ItemsColumn A Column B
Tiger Reptile
Turtle Mammal
Matching Items
Problems:
Increasing simplicity of answering.
Often very easy.
Column A Column B
Tiger Reptile
Turtle Mammal
Matching Items
Avoid 1:1 correspondence
Add ‘distractors’
Column A Column B
Florida Columbus
Illinois Chicago
Ohio Springfield
Tallahassee
Multiple Choice ItemsFrom which emperor did Captain
James T. Kirk’s middle name originate?
A. Julius Caesar
B. Claudius
C. Tiberius
D. Trafalgar
Multiple Choice ItemsFrom which Roman emperor did Captain
James T. Kirk’s middle name originate?
A. Caesar
B. Claudius
C. Nero
D. Tiberius
Best of the Objective Items types.
Can test wide range of content.
Easily scorable.
100 years of psychometrics.
Multiple Choice ItemsFrom which Roman emperor did Captain
James T. Kirk’s middle name originate?
A. Caesar
B. Claudius
C. Nero
D. Tiberius
Problems:
Takes a LONG time to write.
Difficult to test higher functions,
though that is debatable.
Fill-in-the-Blank ItemsTo save middle-
earth, Frodo
journeyed to Mount __________.
Fill-in-the-Blank ItemsTo save middle-
earth, Frodo
journeyed to Mount __________.Your book suggests fill-in-the-blank
may be objective….BUT, it depends
on how you intend to grade it!
Doom
Fill-in-the-Blank ItemsTo save middle-
earth, Frodo
journeyed to Mount __________.Problems:
Shifty objectivity.
Simplicity & Difficulty.
Doom
TaxonomyObjective items are
written at different
taxonomic levels.
Objective items work best
and most effectively at or
below Application. Knowledge
Comprehension
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Application
Knowledge
In which state is St. Augustine located?
A. California
B. Florida
C. Georgia
D. North Carolina
Knowledge Comprehension
Was Florida considered one of the
original 13 colonies?
A. No, at the time it was Spanish.
B. No, because it was too far south.
C. Yes, because it seceded in 1862.
D. Yes, it was George III’s favorite.
