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Constructive Test Alignment Analysis

Faculty members need two skills for appropriate use of assessment methods: 1) selecting and designing direct measures like assignments or exams, or indirect measures like surveys to gauge student mastery at the program or course level. 2) selecting and designing evaluation instruments like rubrics. Direct measures look at actual student work to directly measure knowledge and skills, like exams. Indirect measures infer skills through data like surveys. The document provides examples of assessment methods and discusses learning outcomes and sample tests in English.

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Constructive Test Alignment Analysis

Faculty members need two skills for appropriate use of assessment methods: 1) selecting and designing direct measures like assignments or exams, or indirect measures like surveys to gauge student mastery at the program or course level. 2) selecting and designing evaluation instruments like rubrics. Direct measures look at actual student work to directly measure knowledge and skills, like exams. Indirect measures infer skills through data like surveys. The document provides examples of assessment methods and discusses learning outcomes and sample tests in English.

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Constructive

Test Alignment
Analysis
(prepared by: Darchny Z. Pusod)
Assessment Methods 2

Appropriate use of assessment


methods requires faculty members
to have the following two skills:
Assessment
1. Selecting and designing direct
methods: refer to the measures (e.g. assignments or
use of direct or exams) or indirect measures (e.g.
surveys or interviews) at the
indirect measures program level or course level;
(data sources) to
2. Selecting and designing
gauge students’ evaluation instruments (a rubric
mastery of student or a score distribution guide.)
learning outcomes.
3
Direct measures
➜ Direct Measures look at the actual student
work (assignments or exams) that can be
used to directly measure students’
knowledge and skills.
➜ Examples: Pre-test, post-test, comprehensive
subject matter exam, licensure exam,
portfolio, thesis, writing assignment, capstone
assignment, and performance demonstration
(recital, art exhibit, or science project)
4
Indirect measures
➜ Indirect Measures refer to the type of data
that can be used to infer students’
knowledge and skills.

➜ Examples: Surveys, Interviews, Focus Group


Studies, Document Analyses, Students’
Self-Reports.
Sample Test in
English (Oral
Communication in
Context)
Learning Outcomes and Sample Test 6
Expected Learning Outcome SAMPLE TEST

1. Identify the different


forms of communication.
Learning Outcomes and Sample Test 7
Expected Learning Outcome SAMPLE TEST

1. Identify the different


forms of communication.
Sample Test in Multiple Choice 8
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