ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the select-response items that include binary choice, matching, and multiple choice. It also examines how to increase the degree of validity by ensuring that questions assess the range of cognitive levels found in state standards. When writing select-response items, teachers can reduce the potential for error in assessment results, thereby increasing the degree of reliability of an assessment. Stimulus material offers a way for students to interact with content in a novel way, thereby increasing the level of cognitive behaviors being assessed. By including stimulus material as part of a multiple choice item, teachers can determine whether a student can apply or analyze. The chapter focuses on reliability as it relates to reducing systematic error by carefully developing select-response items. The science behind creating items that indeed assess what they intend to assess and are free from systematic error. These guidelines are fairly cut and dry, the science of creating valid and reliable select-response items.
