Types of teacher-made test by carlos come

Types of Teacher – Made Tests

1.     Essay type

         Advantages: easy to construct, economical, minimize guessing, develops critical thinking, minimize cheating and memorizing, develops good study habits

2.     Objective type

            a) Recall type – simple recall, completion type

            b) Recognition type – alternate response (true/false, yes/no, right/wrong, agree/disagree); Multiple choice (stem-and-options variety, setting-and-options variety, group-term variety, structured – response variety, contained-option variety)

            c) Matching type

            d) Rearrangement type

            e) Analogy type – purpose, cause and effect, synonym relationship, antonym relationship, numerical relationship

            f) Identification type

Multiple Choice Test
(Recognition type)

1.stem-and-options variety :  the stem serves as the problem

2.setting-and-options variety : the optional respon-ses are dependent upon a setting or foundation of some sort, i.e. graphical representation

3.group-term variety : consist of group of words or terms in which one does not belong to the group

4.structured – response variety: makes use of structured response which are commonly use in classroom testing for natural science subjects

5.contained-option variety: designed to identify errors in a word, phrase, sentence or paragraph.