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From Christina: (in progress)
 * EDF 6432 Practice Evaluating Objective-style Items **
 * Part 1** Evaluate the faulty test items. Examine the instructional objective and objective style items that follow. Evaluate the items using the criteria from Chapter 6 and the Item-writing Guidelines Handout (accessed under Module 3 table of contents).


 * Select two** of the item types your evaluated and **post your critique** to your Group’s Discussion work topic. Read through your group members’ judgments to see if you missed anything they noticed. Try to make sure your group has posted a critique for each item type.

1. **Multiple-choice**
 * **Multiple-choice** item objective:

// Given an example and several non-examples of constructivist educational practice, students will select the constructivist example. // || // Behaviorist // practice? 1. Leads students at own pace. 2. Builds on prior learning. 3. Does not reward behavior which is not desired. 4. All of the above. || Which of the following is an example of a //constructivist// practice? 1. Helps students identify previously learned skills. 2. Models desired skills for students to build upon. 3. Helps students construct skill at own pace. 4. All of the above. || <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msoasciithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; msohansithemefont: minor-latin; msobidithemefont: minor-bidi;">From Leeona: MC 1 poorly worded. I am not sure if it is asking for a definition or an example. I know it is asking for an example only because of the Obj. ||
 * **Multiple-choice** item #1:
 * **Multiple-choice** item #2:
 * Critique:

EDF 6432 Practice Evaluating Objective-style Items, cont. 2. Matching
 * **Matching** item objective:

//Given examples of// behaviorist //and// constructivist //educational practices, identify each practice according to its theoretical background.// ||
 * **Matching** item:

Classify each of the following educational practices according the theoretical background from which it is derived. Column A contains the educational practice and Column B contains the theoretical background. Write the letter of the background from Column B in the blank beside the practice in Column A. || _ __1. Reminds students of previously__ learned material. _ 2. Develops reinforcement schedule. _ __3. Models skills for students to build upon.__ _ 4. Extinguishes behaviors that do not contribute to successful performance. || a. Behaviorist theory b. Constructivist theory || From Leeona: The instructions are very specific. This is a lower level question, but it matches the obj. ||
 * Column A: Educational Practice || Column B: Theoretical Perspective ||
 * Critique:

EDF 6432 Practice Evaluating Objective-style Items, cont. 3. Short-answer or Completion Item // Given examples of constructivist and behaviorist educational practices, classify the practices according to the theoretical perspective. // ||
 * **Short-answer** item objective:
 * **Short-answer** item #1:

1. A __theoretical perspective calls for using a reinforcement schedule.__

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 * **Short-answer** item #2:

2. Which theoretical perspective calls for students to construct skills at their own pace? _ ||
 * **Short-answer** item #3:

3. A _ __theoretical perspective calls for setting up a__ _ schedule to reward the demonstration of __skills.__ || From Leeona: Question 1- is a statement it does not ask a question or give a task to complete. The statement does not match the obj. Question 3- I am not sure if this is fill in the blank if so, good practice is to have a short phrase as the blank and only one blank per questions. It seems there can be many right answers, which confuses students and makes it harder to grade. ||
 * Critique:

EDF 6432 Practice Evaluating Objective-style Items, cont. 4. Alternative response or binary response (true-false)

// Given examples of constructivist and behaviorist educational practice, students will distinguish examples of each. // ||
 * **Alternative or binary response** item objective:
 * **Alternative response** item #1:

Distinguish between behaviorist and constructivist educational practice. If the example is behaviorist, place a “b” in the blank and if the example is constructivist, place a “c” in the blank.

1. Reward students for desired behavior. __2. Allow students to construct concepts with frequent use of hands-on types of activities.__ 3. Extinguish less-desired behavior with negative reinforcement. __4. Use previously learned concepts to help the student build learning of new concepts and use modeling frequently.__ 5. Do not use rewards that are not meaningful to students. || A teacher designs a lesson plan that includes the following practices: a. Reminds students of previously learned skills. b. Develops schedule for praise of specific behaviors as they are demonstrated. c. Models examples of target skill several times so students build proficiency. d. Leads students through mastery of sub-skills at their own pace. e. (etc.)
 * **Binary response** item #2:

Classify the teacher’s practices as behavioral or constructivist. Place a “b” in the blank if it is behavioral and place a “c” in the blank if it is constructivist. __1. Reminds students of prior skills.__ 2. Develops praise schedule. __3. Models examples for students to build upon.__ 4. Leads students at their own pace. __ 5. Which educational theory enjoys more favor in modern //general education// teaching practice?

|| From Leeona: Question 1- There is no space to put the correct answer. Part 4 of is a long statement. Question 3- Part 5 is a question and all the others are statements. They should be all the same to keep uniformity in the question. ||  **Part 2** Create Objective-style items // Given examples of nouns and verbs, identify the nouns. // Binary-choice item: || Multiple binary-choice item objective:
 * Critique:
 * Create an item for each of the types** in the table using the given objectives. **Post them** to your group’s discussion topic. Once you have critiqued your group’s examples, select your best set from among them (that includes one best example of each style) and post the set to the Module 3: Objective Style Items topic. Please be sure to label your posting with your group’s number.
 * Binary-choice item objective:

// Given an example paragraph that contains sentences with both nouns and verbs underlined, determine whether the underlined words are nouns or verbs. // ||
 * Multiple-choice item objective:

// Given the definition of **reliability** (consistency with which a test measures what it is trying to measure) and a set of measurement-related terms including reliability, select reliability as the term defined. // Multiple-choice item: || Matching item objective:

Given a list of parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective) and definitions of the parts of speech, associate the term with the definition.

Matching item: ||