QUESTION
Write a detailed note on extended response essay-type items
Course: Educational Assessment and Evaluation
Course code 8602
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER
Extended Response Essay Type Items
An essay-type item that allows the student to
determine the length and complexity of the response is called an extended-response
essay item. This type of essay is most useful at the synthesis or evaluation
levels of the cognitive domain. We are interested in determining whether students
can organize, integrate, express, and evaluate information, ideas, or pieces of
knowledge when the extended response items are used.
Example:
Identify as many different ways to generate
electricity in Pakistan as you can? Give the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Your response will be graded on its accuracy, comprehension, and practical
ability. Your response should be 8-10 pages in length and it will be evaluated
according to the RUBRIC (scoring criteria) already provided.
Overall Essay type items (both
types of restricted response and extended response) are
Good for:
• Application, synthesis, and evaluation levels
Types:
• Extended response: synthesis
and evaluation levels; a lot of freedom in answers
• Restricted response: more
consistent scoring, outlines parameters of responses
Advantages:
• Students less likely to guess
• Easy to construct
• Stimulates more study
Allows students to demonstrate an ability to
organize knowledge, express opinions, and show originality.
Disadvantages:
• Can limit the amount of material
tested, therefore has decreased validity.
• Subjective, potentially unreliable scoring.
• Time-consuming to score.
Tips for Writing Good Essay Items:
• Provide reasonable time limits
for thinking and writing.
• Avoid letting them answer a choice of
questions (You won't get a good idea of the broadness of student achievement
when they only answer a set of questions.)
• Give definitive tasks to
compare, analyze, evaluate, etc.
• Use a checklist point system to
score with a model answer: write an outline, determine how many points to assign
to each part
• Score one question at a
time at the same time.
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