JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
A SURVEY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST CONSTRUCTION SKILLS
Ajogbeje, O. James*, Omoya, Olawale, Boris, O. Olufunke & Enijuni, A. Tola
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the competence of Ekiti State secondary school teachers in creating multiple-choice tests. A descriptive research design was employed in this study. The research covered thirty public secondary schools in the Ekiti North Senatorial District, and its population consisted of four hundred and forty-five secondary school teachers. A simple random selection technique was used to select 150 subject-head teachers at random for the purpose of evaluating their competency as teachers. These subject-head experts are in charge of leading classes in language, science, and the arts and they were chosen through a purposive sample because they share many responsibilities with supervising teachers, who work closely with principals and administration on administrative and management duties. The researchers revised and adjusted a twenty-item questionnaire originally created by Kissi (2020) to evaluate the competence and quality of questions used to produce multiple-choice tests among teachers. The instrument was determined to be reliable with an r-value of 0.69 from the test-retest reliability coefficient. The study question and hypothesis were examined and tested using mean and an independent t-test for two sample means at 0.05 level of significance respectively. A higher degree of multiple-choice test construction competency was found among female teachers compared to male teachers, according to the study's results. The result further showed a low level of competence was observed among public secondary school teachers. The study's authors recommended that secondary school teachers should be trained in more realistic methods of designing multiple-choice questions, especially when it comes to handling alternatives. Workshop, seminars and trainings in test construction can be helpful.
Keywords: Multiple-choice tests, test construction competency, assessment, secondary school teachers, subject-head teachers, public secondary school.