Understanding Tests in Educational Assessment

Creating domains, selecting items, sampling behaviors

Testing skills, evaluating abilities, predicting future performance

Assessing knowledge, measuring intelligence, improving behavior

Providing information for improvement of instruction, making administrative decisions, guidance purposes (correct)

An abstract concept unrelated to the test

A list of administrative decisions

A specific body of knowledge, skills, abilities, or performances of interest to the user (correct)

A random selection of test items

To create new test questions

To predict future outcomes

To select the best answer from a pool of choices

To provide a sample of behavior, products, or performances from a larger domain of interest (correct)

<p>Selection items require choosing the correct answer, while supply items involve filling in answers or writing essays</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A test is a sample of behavior from the domain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By providing relevant information based on performance and skills</p> Signup and view all the answers