TEST QUESTIONS IN ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING

AND GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

1. It has been proven that teachers always ask content

questions. Which does not refer to a content question?
a. Closed c. concept
b. Direct d. convergent

2. TEACHER: In what other ways aside from the periodic

table may we predict the undiscovered earth?
STUDENT A: We can go to the moon and see if there
are elements there that can’t be found. We can dig down
to the Earth’s core and see if we can see there some
missing elements.
TEACHER: Ok those are really good ideas, but don’t
you think those would cost a lot? How can we possibly
use the elements to find new ones?
QUESTION: What is being illustrated by the dialogue
above?
a. funneling c. nose-dive
b. sowing and reaping d. extending and lifting

3. Which practice in questioning brings about more

classroom interaction?
a. asking the question before calling on a student.
b. focusing on divergent questions
c. focusing on convergent questions
d. asking rhetorical questions
4. If students are not responding to your questions, what
technique should you use?
a. ask a specific student to respond, state the question,
and wait a response.
b. Tell the class that it will have detention unless answer
is forthcoming.
c. ask another question, an easier one.
d. wait for a response.

5. What should you do if you want to teach your students to

synthesize?
a. ask students to formulate a generalization from the
data shown in graphs.
b. ask students to answer questions beginning with
“What if…”
c. tell students to state data presented in graph
d. direct students to ask questions on the parts of the
lesson not understood

6. The following are acceptable purposes of a question

except;
a. to call the attention of an inattentive student
b. to teach student answers
c. to stimulate learners to ask questions
d. to arouse interest and curiosity
7. Teachers must avoid ____ questions to promote maximum
interaction.
a. informational c. leading
b. rhetorical d. divergent

8. In asking higher order questions, a teacher must ask more

____ questions.
a. closed c. concept
b. fact d. convergent

9. What is not a logical and sound purpose of questioning?

a. to probe deeper after an answer is given
b. to discipline a bully in class
c. to remind students of a procedure
d. to encourage self reflection

10. After giving a comment on a paragraph, the teacher ask

his students to rate a given paragraph based on the elements
of the paragraph. What is the level of the student’s task?
a. application c. evaluation
b. analysis d. synthesis

11. Which of the following directly measures competence?

a. personality test c. paper and pencil test
b. performance test d. standardized test

12. Analyze this item: Group these items in terms of shape.

This question is an example of what type of question?
 a. creating c. classifying
b. generalizing d. predicting

13. Considering the theory of multiple intelligences, what

would be a weakness of the pencil and paper test?
a. it is not easy to administer
b. it puts the non-linguistically intelligent at a
disadvantage
c. it utilizes so much time
d. it lacks reliability

14. Which has the highest diagnostic value when we are

tasked to develop our skills in synthesizing?
a. essay test c. completion test
b. performance test d. multiple choice test

15. Which one can best evaluate students’ attitude?

a. essay test c. observation
b. portfolio d. short answer test

16. A teacher discovered that her students are good in

dramatizing. What test could have helped the teacher in
discovering her students’ ability?
a. portfolio assessment c. journal entry
b. performance test d. paper and pencil test
17. A teacher wants to teach students the skill in crocheting.
Her check up quiz was a pen and paper test on the steps of
crocheting. What do you think is lacking for it to be
considered a good test?
a. scorability c. objectivity
c. reliability d. validity

18. If the exam you have taken constitutes the competencies

stated on the syllabus, then we can say that the test has ____
validity.
a. concurrent c. content
b. construct d. predictive

19. What kind of question is this particular item: “Based on

the facts given, what most likely will happen if….”
a. inferring c. synthesizing
b. generalizing d. justifying

20. What must a teacher do to ensure the fairness of an exam

in a criterion-referenced testing?
a. make all the questions true or false
b. ask each student to contribute one question
c. make twenty questions but ask the students to answer
only ten of their choices
d. use the objectives for the units as guide in your test
construction.
21. This type of test’s strength is its broad sampling.
a. objective test c. essay test
c. short answer test d. problem type

22. In planning an achievement test, this must be the first

step.
a. define the instructional objective
b. decide on the length of the test
c. select the type of test items to use
d. build a table of specification

23. What is the first step in constructing a periodic test?

a. decide on the number of items for the test
b. go back to the instructional objectives
c. study the content
d. decide on the type of test to be constructed

24. What is the meaning of TOS in the parlance of test

construction?
a. table of speeches c. table of specific test item
b. table of specifications d. term of specifications

25. Which guidelines in test construction is not observed in

this test item: Jose Rizal wrote _________.
a. the central problem should be packed in the stem
b. there must be only one answer
c. alternatives must have grammatical parallelism
d. the alternatives must be plausible
26. Quiz: Formative, Periodic:_____
a. criterion reference test c. norm-reference test
b. summative test d. diagnostic test

27. What kind of test must a teacher use if she wants to test
the students’ ability to organize ideas?
a. multiple choice type c. essay
b. short answer d. technical problem type

28. Among the choice given, A, B, C, D, no student chose D.

It means D is:
a. a defective distracter c. an effective distracter
c. a vague distracter d. a plausible distracter

29. NSAT and Nat results are interpreted against set mastery
level. This means that NSAT and NAT fall under ___
a. intelligence test c. criterion-reference test
b. aptitude test d. norm-reference test

30. _________ is strength of an autobiography as a technique

for personality appraisal
a. it can replace data obtained from other data gathering
technique
b. it gives complete data about the author
c. it makes possible the presentation of intimate
experiences that can not be revealed in a face-to-face
situation by shy students
d. it may be read by unauthorized people
31. When the teacher construct a table of specifications, the
students can be assured that the test has;
a. scorability c. economy
b. reliability d. content validity

32. Here is a performance objective: “WITH THE AID OF A

PERIODIC CHART, the student will list the atomic weights
of the first ten elements”. The capitalized words are referred
to as the
a. performance statement c. behavior
b. minimum acceptable performance d. condition

33. Robert Frost wrote ___. “This question lacks what

guideline in test construction?
a. the length of the blank suggests answer.
b. the central problem is not packed in the stem
c. it is open to more than one answer
d. the blank is at the end of the question.

34. Which should be excluded in the group?

a. completion c. multiple choice
b. matching d. alternative response

35. A teacher interpreted the test scores using norm-

reference, which of the following did she do?
a. used a specific content as its frame of reference
b. described group performance in relation to a level of
master set
 c. compared every individual student scores with other
scores
d. describe what should be the students’ performance

36. What type of test measures higher order thinking skills?

a. enumeration c. completion
b. matching d. analogy

37. What is convergent question?

a. Did the LA SOLIDARIDAD accomplish its purpose?
Why or why not?
b. Who was the first editor of LA SOLIDARIDAD?
c. Why did the LA SOLIDARIDAD come about?
d. If you were the editor of the LA SOLIDARIDAD
what would you do?

38. Here is a performance objective: Given a compass and a

straight edge, construct a pentagon within 5 degrees of
accuracy on any of the inside or outside angles. Which is the
condition statement?
a. within 5 degrees of accuracy
b. construct a pentagon
c. on any of the inside or outside angles
d. given a compass and a straight edge
39. What should be the source of a teacher performance in
terms of professional growth?
a. self evaluation c. student’s evaluation
b. supervisory evaluation d. peer evaluation

40. If a guidance counselor plays the role of a social worker,

it means;
a. he must spend time planning, giving and interpreting
tests
b. he gives vocational guidance
c. he does tutoring
d. he does counseling with children who are disturbed
emotionally

41. Which teacher behavior DOES enhance development of

higher level thinking skills?
a. Encouraging credibility as a criterion
b. Asking convergent questions
c. Making students aware of their mental process
d. Teaching for meaning

42. Which is FALSE about guidance?

a. Guidance is concerned with the entire individual
b. Guidance is an integral part of education
c. Guidance helps individuals develop the ability to make
intelligence
d. Guidance makes choices for individuals
43. Which must be removed from the group?
a. Short answer c. Completion
b. Restricted-response essay d. Multiple Choice

44. Which statement is CORRECT about guidance?

a. Guidance is aimed merely at the amelioration of
trauma.
b. Guidance is concerned with the maximum
development of the individual.
c. Guidance is confined to one type of life situation like
social.
d. Guidance is making intelligent choices for confused
individuals.

45. In order to have basis for _______, test norms are

established.
a. establishing learning objectives
b. identifying pupil’s difficulties
c. planning effective instructional devices
d. comparing test scores.

46. Analyze this test item: Jose Rizal was born on

June____,1861. What seems to be wrong on this item?
a. The blank is very long
b. It is concerned with trivia
c. The blank is near the end.
d. It is open to more than one correct answer.
47. Counselors must AVOID this assumption for them to
have a successful counseling.
a. Student is willing to participate in the process
b. Counselor tells the student what to do
c. Environment must provide assurance of confidentiality

48. Comparability of grades could be improved by:

a. Individual teachers giving weights to factors
considered for rating
b. Using a common conversion table for translating test
scores into ratings
c. Allowing individual teachers to determine factors for
rating
d. Formulating tests that vary from one teacher to
another

49. Which objective below is the highest level in Bloom’s

taxonomy?
a. Explain how trees receive nutrients
b. Explain how a tree functions in relation to the
ecosystem.
c. Rate three different methods of controlling tree growth
d. List the parts of a tree

50. What is an effective tool in measuring students’

awareness of values?
a. anecdotal record c. Likert scale
b. projective techniques d. moral dilemma
51. IDENTIFY IN WRITING THE SIX ELEMENTS IN
THE SHORT STORY BY EDGAR ALLAN POE with
complete accuracy. The capitalized words in this question is
called;
a. minimum acceptable performance c. criterion of
success
b. performance statement d. condition

52. This is the collection of students’ outputs, products and

accomplishments in a period of time.
a. anecdotal record c. observation report
b. portfolio d. diary

53. The school wants the graduating students to choose

rightly the courses they would take in college. The is what
type of guidance service?
a. research service c. skewed to the left
b. skewed to the right d. very normal

54. Guidance service that conducts follow up studies of

graduates and drop outs falls under
a. individual inventory service c. counseling service
b. research service d. placement service

55. A teacher did a misconception/preconception check on

the first day of class to know what the class already knows
about a certain topic. This check is a form of;
a. diagnostic test c. criterion-reference test
 b. placement test d. achievement test

56. Teacher Eva wrote of Henry: “when Henry came to class

this morning, he seemed very tired and slouched in his seat.
He took no part in class discussion and seemed to have no
interest in what was being discussed. This was very unusual,
for he has always been eager to participate and often
monopolized the discussion time.” What teacher eva wrote is
an example of a/an;
a. incident report c. personality report
b. anecdotal report d. observation report

57. Read this test item then answer the question below.
WHAT IS THE END PUNCTUATION FOR AN
INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE?
A. Quotation mark c. semicolon
b. comma d. question mark

58. Parents who demand their 3 to 5 year old children to

study seriously forgets that the children are in;
a. questioning age c. initiative age
b. pre-school age d. play age

59. Under which assumption is portfolio assessment based?

a. portfolio assessment is a dynamic assessment
b. assessment should stress the reproduction of
knowledge
 c. an individual learner is inadequately characterized by
test score
d. an individual learner is adequately characterized by
test score

60. If a teacher is concerned with the development of

students’ higher order thinking skills, his lesson objectives
must go beyond;
a. analysis c. comprehension
b. recall d. application

61. What does not constitute principles of guidance?

a. it is inherent in every school
b. it is a function of the entire school
c. the classroom teacher is not a part of the school
guidance program
d. guidance embraces curriculum, teaching and all other
activities of the school

62. Which statement on counseling is FALSE?

a. the ultimate goal of counseling is greater happiness on
the part of the counselee
b. for counseling to be successful, the counselee, is
willing to participate in the process
c. the school counselor is primary responsible for
counseling
d. counseling is the program that includes guidance
63. Which assessment tool shows evidence of students’
writing skills?
a. project c. critiquing sessions
b. portfolio d. daily journal

64. Teacher j discovered that her pupils are weak in

comprehension. To further determine in which particular
skill/s her pupils are weak; which test should teacher J give?
a. aptitude test c. diagnostic test
b. placement test d. standardized test
65. What type of validity is needed if a test must course
objectives and scopes?
a. content c. criterion
b. concurrent d. construct

66. Teacher gives to his class for assessment. CORE IS TO

EARTH AS NUCLEUS IS TO ATOM. Then she asks the
students to explain how the relationship between core and
earth is similar to relationship between odometer and
distance. What is the classroom assessment technique is
called?
a. webbing c. metaphor
b. analogy d. simile

67. It is good to give students challenging and creative

learning tasks because;
a. development is aided by stimulation
b. the development of individual is unique
 c. development is affected by cultural changes
d. development is an individual choice

68. Teacher B wants to diagnose which vowel sound/s her

students have difficulty. Which tools most appropriate?
a. portfolio assessment c. performance test
b. journal entry d. standardized test

69. Who is the proponent of non-directive counseling?

a. Carl Rogers c. Karen Horney
b. Sigmund Freud d. William James

70. If a student has a special need and the teacher has no

adequate training on learning disabilities, what should not be
the attitude of the teacher?
a. refer the child with special need to the principal
b. refer the child with special need to a psychologist
c. refuse to accept the child in your class
d. the teacher should express one’s limitations

71. Which of the following is not an ideal situation?

a. student with behavioral problem is sanctioned by the
guidance counselor
b. student with behavioral problem is assisted by the
counselor
c. student with behavioral problem is given
psychological test
 d. student with behavioral problem is referred to a
guidance counselor

72. Teachers should have fundamental background in

guidance and counseling because;
a. teachers should be ready to be multi-talented
b. teachers should be ready to perform dual tasks
c. teachers should know that a school has limited budget
d. teachers should know a proactive intervention

73. If a student discloses a very sensitive problem then the

teacher divulges such problem in the faculty room, the
teacher violates _____
a. secrecy c. ethics
b. confidentiality d. promise

74. Who is the Father of Guidance and Counseling in the

Philippines?
a. Sigmund Freud c. Fr. Jaime Bulatao
b. Frank Parsona d. Sinfroso Padilla

75. What kind of test must a teacher use if she wants to test
the students’ ability to organize ideas?
a. multiple choice type c. essay
b. short answer d. technical problem type
76. Study this group of test which was administered with the
following results, then answer the question
Subject Mean SD Rudy’s Score
Trigo 80 7.5 95
Chemistry 49 3 60
Filipino 95 12 90
In which subject/s did Rudy performed best in relation to
the performance of the group?
a. Trigonometry c. Filipino
b. Chemistry d. Trigonometry & Filipino

77. John Marco obtained a score of 85 in Mathematics

multiple choice tests. What does this mean?
a. he has a rating of 85
b. he answered 85 items in the test correctly
c. he answered 85% of the test correctly
d. his performance is 15% better than the group

78. In his second item analysis, Teacher Ian found out that
more from the lower group got the test item #6 correctly. This
means that the test item;
a. has a negative discriminating power
b. has a lower validity
c. has a positive discriminating power
d. has a high reliability
79. NSAT and Nat results are interpreted against set mastery
level. This means that NSAT and NAT fall under ___
a. intelligence test c. criterion-reference test
b. aptitude test d. norm-reference test

80. This is the first step in planning an achievement test.

a. select the type of test items to use
b. decide on the length of the test
c. define the instructional objective
d. build a table of specification

81. Standard deviation: Variability, Mean: ____

A. discrimination c. correlation
b. level of difficulty d. central tendency

82. Which is implied by a positively skewed score

distribution?
a. the mean, median and mode are equal
b. most of the scores are high
c. the mode is high
d. most of the scores are low

83. Median is the 50th percentile as Q3 is to

a. 45th percentile c. 75 percentile
b. 70th percentile d. 25th percentile
84. What is the general advantage of criterion reference test
over norm reference test?
a. an individual score is compared with the set mastery
level
b. an individual score is compared with that of his peers
c. an individual score is compared with the average
scores
d. an individual score does not need to be compared with
any measure

85. All the students who took the examination, got scores
above the mean. What is the graphical representation of the
score distribution?
a. normal curve c. positively skewed
b. mesokurtic d. negatively skewed

86. Which statement best describes a negatively skewed score

distribution?
a. all examinees got a score above the mean
b. the value of the median and mode are equal
c. the value of the mode correspond to a low score
d. the value of the median is higher than the value of
mode
87. In a normal distribution curve a T-score of 70 is
a. two SD’s below the mean c. one SD below the
mean
b. two SD’s above the mean d. one SD above the
mean

88. Table below is a result of arty-out test in Science. An item

analysis conducted for non-attractiveness and non-plausibility
of distracters. The letter marked with asterisk is the correct
answer.
Item No. 1 A B* C D Omit
Upper 275 4 11 3 2 0
Lower 275 9 5 4 3 0

Based on the given table, which is the most effective

distracter?
a. Option B c. Option C
b. Option A d. Option D

89. Mean is to measure of central tendency as _____ is to

measure of variability.
a. quartile deviation c. correlation
b. quartile d. skewness

90. The distribution of a class with academically poor

students is most likely
a. normally distributed c. skewed to the right
b. skewed to the left d. leptokurtic
91. Which is correct about Median?
a. it is the measure of variability
b. it is the most stable measure of central tendency
c. it is the 50th percentile
d. it is significantly affected by extreme scores

92. Skewed score distribution means;

a. the scores are normally distributed
b. the mean and the median are equal
c. the mode, mean and median are equal
d. the scores are concentrated more at one end or the
other end
value of r for Math and Science is 0.90. What does this
imply?
a. Math and Science are inversely related
b. the higher the scores in math the higher the scores in
Science
c. the lower the scores in math the lower the scores in
Science
d. the higher the scores in science the higher the scores in
math

94. In her conduct of item analysis. Teacher Cristy found out

that a significantly greater number from the upper group of
the class got test item #5 correctly. This means that the test
item;
a. has a negative discriminating power
b. is valid
 c. is easy
d. has positive discriminating power

95. Nico got a NAT percentile rank of 95. This means that
a. they have a zero reference point
b. they have scales of equal units
c. they indicate an individual’s relative standing in a
group
d. they indicate specific points in the normal curve

96. Raprap obtained a NEAT percentile rank of 95. This

means that
a. he got a score of 95
b. he answered 95 items correctly
c. he surpassed in the performance 95% of his fellow
examinees
d. he surpassed in the performance 5% of his fellow
examinees

97. Which objective below is the highest in the Bloom’s

taxonomy?
a. explain how trees receive nutrients.
b. explain how a tree functions in relation to the
ecosystem.
c. rate three different methods of controlling tree growth.
d. list the parts of the tree.
98. What would be most likely the distribution if a class is
composed of bright students?
a. platykurtic c. skewed to the left
b. skewed to the right d. very normal

99. This is a type of statistics that give/s information about

the sample being studied.
a. inferential and co relational c. descriptive
b. inferential d. co relational

100. About how many percent of the cases fall between -2SD
and +2SD in the normal curve?
a. 95.44 c. 99.72
b. 68.26 d. 99.85