 Instruments that have prescribed

directions for administration, scoring, and

Stardandized
interpretation

 Exemplified by teacher-made tests either

Non Standardized

for formative or summative evaluation of

student performance
  Instruments whose score interpretation is

Norm - referenced
based on the performance of particular
group.
› Raven’s Progressive Matrices which has several
norm groups which serves as the comparison
group for the interpretation of scores.

 Measures whose criteria for passing or

falling have been decided before hand.
referenced

› Setting the passing score at 75%

Criterion-
  Instruments that are administered one-on-

and Inventories
Individual Tests
one.
› WAIS

 Those that can be administered to a

Group Tests and

group and are usually paper and pencil.

Inventories
  Measures that do not involve any
personal sharing. Usually these are used
Objective Tests to measure achievement like multiple
choice tests, True-False tests.

 Those that involve measuring personality,

Subjective Tests

attitude and so forth.

  Administered under a prescribed time
limit usually short and not enough for one
Speed Tests to finish answering the entire test. The
level of difficulty is usually the same for all
items

 Those that measure competencies,

abilities. The time limit prescribed is
Power Tests

usually enough for one to accomplish the

entire test
  Measures that involve words

Verbal Tests

 Instruments that do not use words rather

Non Verbal Tests

geometrical drawings or patterns

  Measure thinking skills

Cognitive Tests

 Measure sentiments like personality,

interest, values
Affective Tests
  Measure such abilities as intelligence.
Such tests encourage the test taker to do

Measurement
Performance his best
Maximum

 Those that require test taker to perform

Performance
Measurment
Typical