Test, Measurement and Evaluation Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The Harvard step test was constructed in 1943 by Brouha.

Lucien Brouha designed it at the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory as a test of cardiovascular fitness from the heart rate after stepping exercise. McArdle and Kurucz are known for other step-test and fitness measures, and the options do not credit them with the 1943 test. The test is done by stepping on and off a bench of a set height at a set rate for a fixed time and then counting the pulse during recovery, and the score is worked out from the pulse counts.

Answer: A

The test that is not a test of volleyball is the Miller Wall Volley Test.

The Brady, Russell-Lange and French-Cooper tests are volleyball skill tests, while the Miller wall volley test is a wall-volley test of tennis skill, not of volleyball, so it is the odd one out. A candidate can remember the group by the names: Brady, Russell and Lange, and French and Cooper all produced volleyball skill tests, such as volleying, serving and passing tests, while Miller's wall volley test belongs to the racket sports.

Answer: D

The assertion is false and the reason is true, which is the last code.

A hand grip dynamometer measures the strength of the grip, that is the force of the muscles of the hand and forearm, and is not a measure of arm power, which is force combined with speed. The reason, that a dynamometer measures strength, is correct. The difference matters in testing: power is the product of force and velocity, which is measured by tests such as the vertical jump, while the dynamometer reads only the maximum force that can be exerted.

Answer: C

The correct matching is I-3, II-4, III-2, IV-1, the third code.

A test is any instrument or tool, a measurement is the reading taken by the test or tool, evaluation is comparing the measurement with the objectives and grading is the classification of the assessment. The other codes swap the test with the measurement or evaluation with grading. The terms are often confused in practice, so the match is a test of the definitions: a test is the instrument, measurement the number it gives, evaluation the judgement against objectives and grading the placing of the performance in a class.

Answer: A

The fitness index of the Harvard step test is found from the duration of exercise in seconds and the total of the three pulse counts. A subject who exercises for the full five minutes has a duration of 300 seconds:

So the fitness index is 60, option (A). The values 70, 75 and 55 (options B, C and D) would need a pulse count total of 214, 200 or 273 respectively, which is not what is given.

Answer: D

The establishment of logical validity is included in face validity, option (D). Face validity is judged by looking at the test and deciding whether, on the face of it, it appears to measure what it claims to measure, and for this reason it is also called logical validity.

Concurrent validity (option A) compares a test with another criterion measured at the same time, construct validity (option B) tests whether a test measures a theoretical construct, and predictive validity (option C) tests how well it predicts a later result. Each of these uses statistical evidence, not just logical inspection.

Answer: B

Tests and measurement help in assessing status, assessing differences and drawing conclusions, statements I, II and III, option (B). They give the present level of a person or a group, show how people differ, and supply the facts from which conclusions are drawn.

Setting up objectives (IV) is a planning task that comes before testing and does not depend on measurement for its own sake. Options A and D include IV, and option C leaves out statement I, so they are wrong.

Answer: B

The correct match is hydrometry with body composition (5), biopsy with fibre type (1), barometer with atmospheric pressure (4) and skeletal x-ray with age (2). The code is 5 1 4 2, option (B).

Hydrometry (underwater weighing) is a way of finding body composition, a muscle biopsy shows the fibre type, a barometer reads the pressure of the air, and an x-ray of the bones shows the skeletal age. Options A, C and D mismatch some pairs, for example giving vital capacity to hydrometry.

Answer: B

The correct match is chronological age with the record in years, months and days (4), anatomical age with the growth and development of the skeletal system (3), physiological age with the secretion of hormones related to puberty (1) and mental age with the psychological test (2). The code is 4 3 1 2, option (B).

Options A, C and D swap some of these, for example giving the skeletal growth to chronological age or the psychological test to anatomical age.

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason is the right explanation, option (A). Evaluation is the process of interpreting the data gathered through tests and measurement techniques, and it is incomplete if the interpretation is not related to the objectives of the programme.

Option B would apply if the Reason did not explain the Assertion, and options C and D need one of the statements to be false. Here the Reason says why interpretation in line with the objectives is a necessary part of evaluation.