UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

College of Teacher Education

Vigan City
FINAL EXAMINATION IN ASSESS 132

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Write the LETTER of the correct answer. STRICTLY NO ERASURES. (1pt each)
1. Romalyn topped a 100- item norm referenced test. She scored 75 in this test. How would you interpret her score
considering the type of test?
A. Romalyn failed to answer 25% of the test correctly.
B. Romalyn is the best among her classmates in this test.
C. Romalyn mastered 75% of the lessons covered in the test.
D. Romalyn scored more than half of the total number of items.
2. What rank should be assigned to test score 40 in the following distribution?
60 40 50 35 28 56 53 25
A. 1st B. 3rd C. 4th D. 5th
3. Teacher Jane administered an intelligence test for the first time to 42 BSEd students. After two weeks interval she
requested them again to answer the same test. What measure of reliability she is trying to establish?
A. Kuder-Richardson B. Test-Retest Reliability C. Split-Half Reliability D. Equivalent Forms
4. Dr. Agustin administered a test in Araling Panlipunan once to a group of students, then he correlates the
proportion/percentage of the students passing and not passing a given item. What measure of reliability did he used?
A. Kuder-Richardson B. Test-Retest Reliability C. Split-Half Reliability D. Equivalent Forms

For items 5-6, refer to the data below:

Performance in English Test

Class No. of Students Mean Standard Deviation

A 45 58.20 2.32
B 44 57.10 4.58
C 46 56.08 5.72
D 43 52.46 6.19
E 46 50.13 7.14
5. Which class is the most homogenous?
A. E B. A C. D. D. B.
6. Which class performed the poorest in English?
A. E B. A C. D. D. B.
7. The computed correlation coefficient (r) for Mathematics and Reading scores is 0.79. What does it mean?
A. Math and Reading scores are not related.
B.The higher the Math score, the lower the Reading score
C. The higher the Math score, the higher the Reading score
D. The lower the Math score, the lower the Reading score
8. Which is the most accurate about the median?
A. It is the middle score. C. It is the most frequently occurring score
B. It is affected by extreme scores D. It is the most stable measures of central tendency
9. Ten students obtained the scores below:
Score 20 24 29 35 40 41 44 50 60 62

What is the mean of the above scores?

A. 36.2 B. 40.5 C. 45.2 D. 39.5
10. Which tells whether score distribution appears compressed or expanded?
A. Standard scores C. measure of variability
B. Measure of correlation D. measure of central tendency
11. What will you do with an item having a difficulty index of 0.49 and a discrimination index of 0.60?
A. Revise the item C. Replace the item
B. Retain the item D. Reject the item
12. What does it mean if the score distribution follows the normal curve.
A. The scores coincide with the mean C. Most of the scores are on the -2SD
B. Most of the scores are on the +2SD D. Most of the scores pile up between -2SD and +2SD
13. What is implied by a positively skewed distribution?
A. The mode is high C. Most of the scores are low
B. Most of the scores are high D. The mean, median and mode are equal.
14. After the final examination, Dr. Robert computed a zero Standard Deviation of the scores of his students. What
does it imply?
A. The students’ scores are the same C. <50% of the scores is zero
B. 50% of the scores is zero D. >50% of the scores is zero
15. Q1 is the 25th percentile while median is the ___
A. 40th percentile B. 45th percentile C. 50th percentile D. 60th percentile

For items 16 –21. Dr. Corpuz obtained the following scores in his examinations in Filipino Language course.
Long Tests Scores
1 40
2 40
3 45
4 55
5 60

16. What is the median score?

A. 40 B. 45 C. 47 D. 48
17. What is the modal score?
A. 40 B. 45 C. 47 D. 48
18. What is the mean score?
A. 40 B. 45 C. 47 D. 48
19. What is the range of the scores?
A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20
20. If the scores are to be ranked from highest to lowest, what is the rank of 40?
A. 1 B. 2.5 C. 4 D. 4.5
21. Which is true about the level of measurement of the data presented?
A. The number of long test is an interval scale while the raw scores are nominal scale.
B.The number of long test is a nominal scale while the raw scores are interval scale.
C. The number of long test is an ordinal scale while the raw scores are nominal scale.
D. The number of long test is a ratio scale while the raw scores are interval scale.
22. Mr. Puno, a secondary school teacher in Chemistry found out that many of his students got very low scores in the
test. What measure of central tendency should be used to describe their average performance in the subject?
A. mean B. median C. mode D. range
23. The median of an ungrouped data is 83.5. What does this indicate?
A. 83.5 is exactly the middle score in the distribution C. 83.5 is the arithmetic average of all the scores
B. 83.5 is the most frequent score in the distribution D. 83.5 is one of the scores in the distribution
24. Mrs. Dela Cruz computed the mean in getting the typical score of a grouped data. What measure of variability
should she use to determine how the scores spread out?
A. Quartile Deviation B. Standard Deviation C. Percentile D. Range
25. Mrs. Ubiña wants to classify her pupils into three ability groups using their achievement test results. What
measure of dispersion should she consider if the frequency has skewed distribution?
A. Median B. Range C. Quartile Deviation D. Standard Deviation
26. Reyes correlated the students’ achievement score to their leisure time. The computed correlation coefficient was
- 0. 90. How would you interpret the result?
A. The higher is the achievement, the lesser is the leisure time.
B.The higher is the achievement, the higher is the leisure time.
C. The lower is the achievement, the lesser is the leisure time.
D. The achievement score and the leisure time are not correlated.
For item 27, refer to the data below which shows Tintin’s score in comparison with her class’ test profile.
Test Profile Math Test Filipino Test
Tintin’s score 65 80
Class Mean 50 70
Class SD 5 4
Total Number of Items 75 90

27. Which of the following statements best describes Tintin’s performance in the two tests as compared to the class
performance?
A. She performs better in Math than in Filipino.
B. She performs better in Filipino than in Math.
C. She has been very consistent in topping the test.
D. She has been consistent in her class standing in the two tests.
28. At the end of the school year, Mrs. Lopez identified who among her grade five pupils could be promoted to the
next grade level based on their final ratings. For what are ratings or marks in this situation?
A. direction B. selection C. certification D. motivation
29. In a 100-item test, none of Mrs. Silva's students got a score higher than 50. However, when they received their
grades, almost half of them got a passing mark. What system could have been used by their teacher in assigning their
grades?
A. Points Grading System C. Norm-Referenced Grading System
B. Contract Grading System D. Criterion-Referenced Grading System
30. Ariel, an underachiever was failed in all examinations. However, he was always present in the class and has
submitted his homework on time. His teacher gave him a passing mark because of his good attitude towards school
work. Was the decision of the teacher correct? Why?
A. Yes, because grades should not just be based on examinations
B. No, because tests and projects should be the only sources of grades
C. Yes, because teachers should give more importance to students’ attitude.
D. No, because attitude towards school work should not be considered in the computation.
31. Mrs. Delos Santos has a student who comes to school only during examination days. This student happened to get
high scores in all examinations but has not submitted any homework project. What grade should be given to this
student? Why?
A. A failing mark because the examination results are obviously unreliable
B. A passing mark because examination is given more emphasis than any source of grade.
C. A failing mark to give the student the lesson that home works and other requirements are equally
important.
D. A passing mark if after computing the corresponding weight of the examinations and other sources of
grades, the student passes the courses.
32. Which is implied by a positively skewed score distribution?
A. The mean, median and the mode are equal C. Most of the scores are low
B. Most scores are high D. The mode is high
33. The score distribution of Set A and Set B have equal mean but with different SDs. Set A has an SD of 1.7 while Set
B has an SD of 3.2. Which statement is TRUE of the score distributions?
A. Majority of the scores in Set B are clustered around the mean.
B. Majority of the scores in Set A are clustered around the mean.
C. The scores of Set A has less variability than the scores in Set B.
D. Scores in Set A are more widely scattered.
34. The discriminating index of a test item is 0.35, what does this mean?
A. More students in the lower group got the item correctly than those students in the upper group
B. More students in the upper group got the item correctly than those students in the lower group
C. The same number of students in the lower group and in the upper group who got the item correctly
D. More students from the upper group got the item correctly
35. Raprap obtained a NEAT percentile rank of 95. This means that
A. he got a score of 95
B. he answered 95 items correctly
C. he surpassed in the performance 95% of his fellow examinees
D. he surpassed in the performance 5% of his fellow examinees
36. The Table below is a result of a try-out test in Science. An item analysis conducted for non-attractiveness and
non-plausibility of distracters. The letter marked with asterisk is the correct answer.
Item No. 1 A B* C D
Upper 27 54 11 32
Lower 27 59 54 30

Based on the given table, which is the most effective distracter?

A. Option B B. Option C C. Option A D. Option D
37 . What would be most likely the distribution if a class is composed of bright students?
A. platykurtic B. skewed to the right C. skewed to the left D. very normal
38. About how many percent of the cases fall between -2SD and +2SD in the normal curve?
A. 95.44 B. 99.72 C. 68.26 D. 99.85
39. UNP testing center administered the College Entrance Test to enrollees and correlated the scores with their
general average in high school. Which of was established?
A. concurrent validity B. predictive validity C. content validity D. construct validity
40. Using the criterion referenced grading, what is the rating of Rodrigo if he got 32 in a 50-item test?
A. 32 B. 60 C. 64 D. 82
41. What will you do with an item having a difficulty index of 0.49 and a discrimination index of 0.60?
C. Revise the item C. Replace the item
D. Retain the item D. Reject the item
42. In her item analysis, Dr. Martin found out that more from the upper group got test item no. 6 correctly. What
conclusion can be drawn?
A. The test item has a high difficulty index C. The test item has a positive discrimination index
B. The test item has a high facility index D. The test item has a negative discrimination index
43. What are the characteristics of a good assessment instrument?
I. Economy II. Validity III. Practicality and efficiency IV. Reliability

A. I, II, IV B. II, IV C. I, II, III D. I, II, III, IV

44. Miss Taan gives a 50-item test in English where the mean performance of the group is 40 and the standard
deviation is 6. If her student Marko obtained a score of 45, which of the following best described his
performance?
A. Below Average B. Above average C. Average D. Outstanding
45. Mr Alcayaga gave a summative test. In which competency did his students find the greatest difficulty?
A. 0.09 B. 1.00 C. 0.75 D. 0.45

II. Problem Solving: Show all your solutions.

A. Find the mean and use it to interpret the individual test score of the following students. (5 pts)
Ritchelle 28 Jeffrey 20
Joshua 30 Edna 22
Kristelle 27 Antonio 19
Lei 24 Billy 17
Julie 25 Vanessa 18

2. Rank the above scores and mark who among the ten students made the best and the poorest performance.
(5 pts)

3. A classroom teacher gave a quiz to 10 students. The scores obtained are as follows: (15 pts)

5 8 7 6 3 6 10 5 6 4

Determine the mean, median, and mode.

4. A college student took up two science subjects in one semester. He got a grade of 85 on a final examination in
Chemistry. The mean grade and the standard deviation in this subject were 80 and 7, respectively. In Biology, he
received a grade of 90; the mean grade was 85 and the standard deviation was 12. In which subject did he perform
better? (5 pts)

5. Two equivalent intelligent tests are given to similar group, the test are designed with different scales. The Statistics
for the tests are listed below. Which is better: a score of 145 on test I or a score of 60 on Test II? Probe your answer.
(5pts)

6. Tricia got 141 in English and 112 in Statistics. If the scores in English averaged 148 with a standard deviation of 3.2
while the average score of statistics is 113 with a standard deviation of 4.3, in what subject did Tricia get a higher
grade? (5pts)