Alternative Response Test

Example: In each of the following statement, both parts of the statement are true. You are to decide if the second part explains why the first is true. If it does, circle the "Yes". If it does not circle the "No"

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The student is to judge whether the relationship between two propositions in one statement is true or false.

YES NO 1. Leaves are essential because they shade the tree trunk.

YES NO 2. Whales are mammals because they are large.

YES NO 3. Some plants do not need sunlight because they get their food from other plants.

T F CT CF 1. All trees are plants.

T F CT CF 2. All parasites are animals.

T F CT CF 3. All eight-legged animals are spiders.

T F CT CF 4. No spiders are insects.

Example: Read each of the following statements: If the statement is true, circle the "T". If it is false circle the "F". Also if the converse of the statement is true, circle the "CT", if the converse is false, circle the "CF". Be sure to give answers for each statement.

Recognize Cause & Effect Relationship

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SPECIAL TYPE OF ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE

Measures Some Simple Aspect of Logic

Right or Wrong

Direction: If the statement is right, circle R if wrong, circle W.

True or False.

R W 1. All Filipino citizens can vote and be voted upon.

R W 2. The right to vote is both a privilege and a responsibility.

R W 3. Election protests are heard by the Supreme Court.

LESSON 2

Direction: If the statement is true, circle the "T". If the statement is false, circle the "F"

T F 1. The green coloring material in a plant- leaf is called chlorophyll.

T F 2.The corolla of a flower includes petals and sepals

T F 3. Photosynthesis is the process by which leaves make food for a plant.

4. Avoid including two ideas in one statement unless cause-effect relationship are being measured.

Examples:

Poor: T F 1. A worm cannot see because it has simple eyes.

Better: T F 2. Worms do not have simple eyes.

Specific Guidelines/ Suggestions

in Constructing Alternative- Response Test

The alternative response item consists of a declarative statement which allows students to choose between two comparable answers, one is correct and the other is wrong.

Examples of this type include true or false, right or wrong, correct or incorrect or fact or opinion. In more specific terms, alternative response items also places ideas, people, concepts into a dichotomy as noun, pronoun, living-non-living, democratic-autocratic and the like.

Sample Types of Alternative Response Test

Alternative Response Test

Yes or No

5. True statements and false statements should be approximately equal in length.

Direction: If the answer is Yes, circle the “Y”. If the answer is No, circle the N.

Y N 1. Is 50% of 20 greater than 11?

Y N 2. Is 1 whole equal to five equal parts?

Y N 3. Is 25% of 44 less than 12?

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7. Place the items in a random manner. Avoid presenting them in a pattern such as TFTF or TTTFFF, etc. which will favor students who are merely guessing.

Example:

Poor 1. Despite the theoretical and

experimental difficulties of determining the exact pH value of a solution is acid by the red color formed on litmus paper when it is inserted into the solution.

3. Avoiding long, complex sentences

Long, complex sentences tend to measure extraneous facts of reading comprehension rather than the knowledge or understanding being measured.

OK!?

Better: 1. Litmus paper turns red in an acid solution.

Okay!!!

6. The number of the true statement and false statement should be approximately equal. Vary the percentage of true statement somewhere between 48 to 60 percent. Never make all your statements true or false.

1. Use only one important idea in each stem. When an item includes two or more ideas and the student may not know one of them, it cancels out the usefulness of the other idea (which he knows) in evaluating this knowledge.

2. Write items positively. Avoid negative statement such as "no" or "not", as much as possible, using them only when the concepts being tested cannot be stated positively.

Example:

Poor 1. The President of the Philippines is elected to office every six years.

Better 2. According to the constitution, the President term of the Philippines is elected to office every six years.

Examples:

Poor 1. None of the parts was needed in the constitution of the gadget.

Better 2. All of the parts were necessary in the construction of the gadget.