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Unit 28 : Objective Type Test : Advantages and Limitations

• Introductory material should neither be inadequate nor have redundant matter. Notes
• Subquestions may be of short-answer or objective type. Usually the same form of question
is used in one set.
• Each subquestion must demand reading of introductory paragraph for answering.
• STQ can be used in selection tests like those of N.T.S. examinations and Jawahar Navodaya
Vidyalaya admission tests, especially in languages for testing reading comprehension.
• In larger heterogeneous groups of students, STQ can be used with advantage for catering to all
ability ranges of students by setting questions on wider range of abilities to be tested.
• The most potential and usable form of objective tests is the MCQ. These questions are either
used exclusively as in some selection tests, or in combination with other forms of questions as
in most of the examinations conducted by the examination boards or other agencies.
• The multiple-choice items are based on response-directed stimulus, in which responses or
options may be arranged in different ways. The choice of the correct answer among the given
options or responses can be made from the independent set of responses given for each item
or from the same set of responses given for different items.
• An ordinary multiple-choice item consists of an incomplete statement or a question, called the
stem of the item, followed usually by four or five suggested answers (choices, called the responses
or alternatives) out of which usually one is correct. The correct answer is called the key and the
incorrect answers are called the distractors.
• Single-response variety
• Multiple-responses variety
• Best, least or worst variety
• All-or-none variety
• Multiple completion or multiple selection
• Combined-response variety
• Classification variety
• Negative-response variety
• Sequenced-response variety
• Cause-and-effect variety
• Analogy-type items
• Assertion-reasoning variety

28.7 Keywords
Objective : Something that you are trying to achieve
Blueprint : A plan which shows what can be achieved and how it canbe achieved
Discrimination : The ability to judge what is good, true etc.

28.8 Review Questions
1. Give the Construction of different types of objective type test.
2. Explain the format of Multiple Choice Questions.
3. What is the usablility of matching items of objective type test ?
4. What are the advantages and limitations of objective type tests ?

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