SEQUENCING

Θ The direction is not appropriate in all the items. There are some items
that have less than and more than five (5) items.
Θ The items have only one category
Θ It has a sufficient space in writing the answer.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Θ All of the items are stated in a form of question and incomplete

statement
Θ One of the items provided contextual clue to the other correct answer,
but the choices all starts at a consonant, so, there is no problem with
that.
Θ The language used is fair because even the poorest reader will
understand it.
Θ There is only one correct answer in all the items and the distractors are
much related to it.
Θ There are “none of the above” choices, and its good that it is only a
distractor because if “none of the above” is the answer, the students
might get the right answer even he/she is thinking of a wrong answer,
for example, the choices are “a. Africa b. Australia c. Antarctica and d.
none of the above” and he thinks that the answer is Asia, he will
choose “d” and have the correct answer even if the right answer is
North America.

ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE

Θ It avoids the use of negatives

Θ All of the words used are easy to understand
Θ Don’t have tricky clue like “true” are longer than false.
Θ There is almost the same no. of items both in true and false
because over15, there is 8 true and 7 false
Θ All of the statement have one central idea

MATCHING TYPE

Θ There is no direction
Θ All the items are can be found in one page only
Θ It has only 15 items
Θ Column d arrange its choices according to its length

IDENTIFICATION

Θ The direction did not included what should be the answer clearly,
it’s just said that “identify the following” it does not included if it is a
place, person or others.
Θ There is a sufficient space provided for each answer
LABELING

Θ There is an instruction that they will label the parts of the cell
structure
Θ The drawing has it arrows, indicating that this is the item they
must answer

ENUMERATION

Θ The exact numbers of items are indicated

Θ There is no space provided for the answer of the students, the
space for their answer will be written at the back page.

ANALOGY

Θ There is a relationship between the first pair of words in the

seconds pattern in the second pair
Θ There is no choices included

FILL IN THE BLANKS

Θ It violated the rule that it should only have one blank at each
number
Θ Most of the blanks are placed near the number, and it should be
near or at the end of the sentence
Θ It does not have proper instruction
Θ There is a definite answer but it is written there that it’s the
question for their reflections
Θ The blanks used are not equal, some of the blanks are longer
that the other blank, it just giving the students a clue that the answer
in this item is a long word or maybe two words.