Constructing Test Items (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

This book addresses major issues included in constructing test items by focusing on four ideas. First, it describes characteristics and functions of test items. A second feature of this book is the presentation of editorial guidelines for writing test items in all of the commonly used item formats, including for test of constructed-response formats and performance tests. A third aspect of this book is the presentation of methods for determining the quality of test items. Finally, this book presents a compendium of important issues about test items, including procedures for ordering items in a test, ethical and legal concerns for using copyrighted test items, item scoring schemes, computer-generated items and more.