LLCU 424 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Unit Testing, Multiple Choice, Item Response Theory

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Course: LLCU 424
• Professor: Dr. Tomas McCone

Document Summary

Designed to be an instructional tool to guide classroom discussion for one classroom period. Continuation of the material introduced and practiced in the other two classes. Can be an outline of your test. Item types (methods, such as multiple-choice, cloze, etc. ) Tasks (written essay, reading a short passage, etc. ) How it will be reported to students. A broad outline of how the test will be organized. Which of the 8 sub-skills you will test. What the various tasks and item types will be. How results will be scored, reported to students, and used in a future class. Guessing may have a considerable effect on test scores. Technique severely restricts what can be tested. It is very difficult to to write successful items. Multiple choice items are all receptive or selective response (items that the test-taker chooses from a set of responses - commonly called a supply type of response - rather than creating a response.