Reflection: Module 5 Characteristics of a Good Test
It is important to keep the method of testing as simple as possible while still testing the skill you intend to test. Avoid ambiguous questions and ambiguous instructions. Being able to now the characteristics of a good test will provide us, future teachers, the necessary procedures and concepts when we are on the actual process of assessing student learning.
In making a Test there should be characteristics to be followed. One of the characteristics of the Test is the Validity, when you say the test is valid, the content should be appropriate to the test that given to the students. Validity is the degree to which a test measure what it is supposed to measure. Here in validity the directions and constructing the questions should be correct and clear to the students so that it is difficult to them to analyze. If it is not clear and the construction is wrong it is not valid. Next of the characteristics of a good test is the reliability. Reliability refers to the extent to which assessments are consistent. It provides a measure of the extent to which an examinee’s score reflects random measurement error. The longer the test is, the more reliable it is, it should also have the item of difficulty so that test would be identify if the test is easy or difficult, because when there is little variability of a test can be determined by means of Pearson product correlation coefficient, Spearman-brown formula and Kadar-Richardson formula. Lastly is the objectivity of the test, it is acquiring knowledge by reasoning solely based on the facts of reality and in accordance with the laws of logic.Therefore, in making a good test it should have the characteristics so that the students and teacher will not have a misunderstanding and difficulties with regard to the test.
In making a Test there should be characteristics to be followed. One of the characteristics of the Test is the Validity, when you say the test is valid, the content should be appropriate to the test that given to the students. Validity is the degree to which a test measure what it is supposed to measure. Here in validity the directions and constructing the questions should be correct and clear to the students so that it is difficult to them to analyze. If it is not clear and the construction is wrong it is not valid. Next of the characteristics of a good test is the reliability. Reliability refers to the extent to which assessments are consistent. It provides a measure of the extent to which an examinee’s score reflects random measurement error. The longer the test is, the more reliable it is, it should also have the item of difficulty so that test would be identify if the test is easy or difficult, because when there is little variability of a test can be determined by means of Pearson product correlation coefficient, Spearman-brown formula and Kadar-Richardson formula. Lastly is the objectivity of the test, it is acquiring knowledge by reasoning solely based on the facts of reality and in accordance with the laws of logic.Therefore, in making a good test it should have the characteristics so that the students and teacher will not have a misunderstanding and difficulties with regard to the test.