Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Developing Test Items and Scoring
Criteria-Katalina Perez
- Matching the Task to the Purpose
- Test developers should ensure items
measure the intended skill and content
- Test developers must ensure that all test items maintain
specificity in their match to content guidelines
- Defining Expectations
- Item writers should not assume that students have had
any previous experience with given tasks
- Criteria for the evaluation of the response
should be made clear to the student
- Writing Appropriate Directions
- Design directions to maximize clarity and
minimize the potential for confusion
- Consider presenting the directions orally or in
a language other than English if needed
- Using Accessible Language
- Use clear and simple language for
instructions, but not for items.
- Use accesible vocabulary for students
- Try to keep sentences clear and simple
- Avoid negatives in sentences
- Presentation
- Fonts, font sizes, line breaks in paragraphs,
and test directions should be carefully
considered
- Clearly and consistently placing elements such
as pictures, page numbers, and other page
elements can improve readability
- Fairness and Sensitivity
- minimize the effects of
construct-irrelevant knowledge or
skills
- Avoid material that is unnecessarily controversial,
inflammatory, offensive, or upsetting
- Use school-based contexts for test items
- Created by Katalina Perez