DEVELOPMENT OF
ASSESSMENT TOOLS
DISCUSSANT:
JANINE SERAFICA LINGAD
Assessment tools in the affective
domain, in particular, are
those which are used to assess
attitudes, interest, motivation,
and self-efficacy.
►There are certain practices
that are considered good
practices in developing these
STANDARD ASSESSMENT
TOOLS IN THE AFFECTIVE
DOMAIN
SELF REPORT
►Is the most common measurement tool
in the affective domain.
►It essentially requires an individual to
provide an account of his attitude or
feelings toward a concept or idea or
people.
►Sometimes called “written reflections”.
RATING SCALES
Set of categories designed to
elicit information about a
quantitative attribute in social
science.
The basic feature of any rating
scale is that it consists of a
number of categories.
Thurstone Scale
Thurstone is considered the father
of attitude measurement.
He addressed the issue of how
favorable an individual is with
regard to a given issue.
He developed an attitude continuum
to determine the position of
favorability on the issue.
Below is an example of a Thurstone scale of
measurement.
Directions: Put a check mark in the blank if you
agree with the item:
____ 1. Blacks should be considered the lowest
class in human beings. (scale value = 0.9)
____ 2. blacks and whites must be kept apart in
all social affairs where they might be taken as
equals ( scale value = 3.2)
_____3. I am not interested in how blacks rate
socially. (scale value = 5.4)
Likert Scales
In 1932, Likert developed the method
of summated ratings (or Likert scale),
which is widely used.
This requires an individual to tick on a
box to report whether they “strongly
agree” “agree” “undecided”, “disagree”
or “strongly disagree” in response to a
large number of items concerning
attitude object or stimulus.
SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL
(SD) SCALES
Tries to assess an individual’s
reaction to specific words, ideas or
concepts in terms of rating on
bipolar scales defined with
contrasting
Good adjectives at e a c Bad
h end.
3 2 1 0 1 2 3
The position marked 0 is labeled
neutral, the 1 positions are labeled
slightly, the 2 positions quite, a n d the
A number of basic considerations are
involved in SD methodology.
a. Bipolar adjectives are a simple,
economical means for obtaining data
on people’s reactions
b. Ratings on bipolar adjective scales
tend to be correlated, and three
basic dimensions of response
account for most of the co-variation
c. Some adjective scales are almost
pure measures of the EPA dimensions:
good-bad (Evaluation), powerful-
powerless (Potency), and fast-slow
(Activity)
d. EPA measurement are appropriate
when one is interested in an effective
domain responses; multi-variate
approach to affect measurement;
generalized approach applicable to any
concept or stimulus, and thus permits
CHECKLISTS
Checklists are the most common
and perhaps the easiest instrument
in the affective domain.
It consist of simple items that the
student or teacher marks as “absent”
or “present”.
Here are the steps in the construction of a
checklist:
a. enumerate all the attributes and
characteristics you wish to observe
b. arrange this attributes as a “shopping
list” of characteristics
c. ask students to mark those attributes
which are present and to leave blank
those which are not
SENTENCE COMPLETION
The advantage of using the incomplete
sentence format is that it captures
whatever comes to mind from each
student.
However, there are disadvantages too for
this.
• One is students’ faking their response
• Another is scoring, which takes more
time and is more subjective than the
Examples:
I think Mathematics as a subject is
________________________________.
I like my Mathematics teacher the
most because -
______________________.
THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING
GODBLESS!!!
