Purpose of Testing
Measures knowledge prior to an educational activity.
Guides an NPD practitioner in content development and focus areas.
What is a pre-test?
“All” or “None”
What are words to avoid in the stem of a question?
Response options or alternatives; one is the correct response, the others are __________.
What are distractors?
Evaluates comprehension and recall during an educational activity.
Guides an NPD practitioner in identifying areas needing further clarification.
What is a Formative evaluation?
The test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
Giving detailed information in the body of a question not related to the actual question.
What is attempting to teach within the body of the question?
Written or computer based testing only measures the ___________ domain.
What is the cognitive domain?
Even questions that ask what an individual would do only measures knowledge-not what the individual would actually do in the practice setting.
The test provides consistent scores in the absence of an intervening variable.
What is reliability?
One answer in a multiple-choice question is a full sentence, while the others are not.
What is consistency in the choice of answers?
Evaluates comprehension and recall after and educational activity.
Provides the NPD practitioner feedback about the effectiveness of the educational intervention.
What is a summative evaluation?
Tests created by NPD Practitioner are used to _________ educational activities.
What is evaluate?
Make sure _____ alternative is correct in the possible answers of a multiple-choice question.
What is one?