Simple true false test

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1. SIMPLE

2. What is a simple True or False? Alternative choice test in which the student or examinee indicates whether each of several statements is true or false. Binomial- choice test that have only two (2) option such as : True or False, Right or wrong, Good or Better and so on.

3. A student who knows nothing of the content of the examination would have 50% chance of getting the answer by sheer guesswork, although correction for guessing formula exist.

4. CONSTRUCTING A TRUE-FALSE TEST Here are some rules:

5. Rule 1. Do not give a hint (inadvertently) in the body of the question. Example: The Philippines gained its independence in 1898 and therefore celebrated its centennial year in 2000.

6. Rule 2.  Avoid using the words “always”, “never”, “often” and other adverbs that tend to be either always true or always false . Example: Christmas always falls on Sunday because it is a Sabbath day.

7. Rule 3. Avoid long sentences as these tend to be “true”. Keep sentences short . Example: Tests need to be valid, reliable and useful, although, it would require a great amount of time and effort to ensure that tests possess these test characteristics.

8. The following example illustrate what can go wrong in long sentences:   Example: Tests need to be valid, reliable and useful since it takes very little amount of time, money and effort to construct tests with these characteristics.

9. Rule 4. Avoid trick statements with some minor misleading word or spelling anomaly, misplaced phrases, etc .   Example: The Principle of our school is Mr. Albert P. Panadero .  Rule 5. Avoid quoting verbatim from reference materials or textbooks.

10. Rule 6.  Avoid specific determiners or give-away qualifiers. Students quickly learn that strongly worded statements are more likely to be false than true, for example, statements with “never”, “no”, “all” or “always”. Moderately worded statements are more likely to be true than false. Statements with “many”, “often”, “sometimes”, “generally”, “frequently” or “some” should be avoided.

11. Rule 7. With true or false questions, avoid grossly disproportionate number of either true or false statements or even patterns in the occurrence of true and false statements.