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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) The questions which can be answered even more briefly and in shorter time than the
short answer type questions are called ______ .
(ii) The answers to short answer type questions are generally ______ , as such their
measurement is ______ .
(iii) Short answer type test can measure only ______.
(iv) ______ and ______ can not be measured by short answer type test.
(v) In short answer type test, emphasis is often laid on facts by which ______ is chiefly tested.

29.7 Summary

• The tests in which such questions are asked, which can be answered briefly are called short
answer type tests. Short answer type questions are generally of two types–short answer type
and very short answer type. We are illustrating the both types here.
• Short Answer Type Questions : The questions which can be answered in comparatively less
time and in less words than the essay type questions are called short answer type questions.
• Very Short Answer Type Questions : The questions which can be answered even more briefly
and in shorter time than the short answer type questions are called very short answer type
questions.
• VSQ
• Direct question
• Selection form
• Completion form
• Identification type
• Analogy type
• Classification variety (odd man out)
• SAQ
• Interrogative format
• Statement format
• Numerical format
• Tabular format
• Graphic format
• Figural or diagrammatic format
• It is assumed that while developing the blueprint care has been taken to insert fixed-response
(VSQ) and free-response (SAQ) questions in appropriate columns and rows that suit best the
content of the unit and the assessment objectives. VSQ are more difficult to frame than SAQ,
because they demand specificity of the response that must be fixed and objectively scorable.
• Most of the paper setters have wrong notion that the easiest questions to be constructed are the
very short-answer questions (VSQ). Make any statement or an interrogative sentence asking
for a word or phrase that is quite specific, factual of trivial and you get a question.
• Specific guidelines for construction of SAQ (free response) include all those enunciated for
VSQ. Besides, the following principles if observed by the framer of SAQ would lead to
construction of questions more relevant and of better quality. List is quite long, but here only
8 major principles are listed.

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