What are matching items and how effective are they as a test item?
What will be an ideal response?
Used by many teachers with younger students, matching requires students to connect one group of stimuli correctly with a second group of stimuli. Matching is especially well suited for assessing associations or links between two sets of information. In a typical matching format, a teacher places a list of terms on the left side of the page and a description or definition of the terms on the right side of the page. The student's task is to draw lines between the columns that correctly link terms with their definitions or descriptions. Matching tests are convenient for teachers in that (a) their compact form requires little space, thus making it easy to assess quite a lot of information efficiently, and (b) they can be easily scored by using a correct-answer template. But matching tests may tend to ask students to connect trivial information. Also, most matching tasks require students to connect information they have simply memorized, although items can be constructed that measure more complex cognitive skills.
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What will be an ideal response?