MEASURING COMPLEX

ACHIEVEMENT : ESSAY
QUESTION
Dwi Indah Pangesti Cahya Ningrum
Nurul Agustin
FORM AND USES OF ESSAY
QUESTIONS
• The distinctive feature of essay question is the freedom of response
• Essay assessment can be useful ways of assessing student understanding and ability to
organiz and aply information in a content areas such as history, civis, literature, science,
or mathematics

Restricted – Response Essay Questions

 Restricted – Response Essay Questions
Another way of restricting responses in essay question is to base the question peoblem,

Extended – Response Essay Questions

The extended-response question or
assignment allowa students to select
any factual information that they
think is pertinent, to organize the
answer in accordance with their best
judgment
SUMMARY COMPARISON OF
LEARNING OUTCOMES
MEASURED
The restricted-response essay question can
measure variety of complex learning
outcomes similar to those measured by the
objective interpretive exercise. A
comparison of the type of complex
learning outcomes measured by each of
these type of assessment.
ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS
OF ESSAY QUESTIONS
Advantages Limitations

1. It measure complex learning 1. The unreliability of the scoring

outcomes that cannt be 2. The amount of time required for
measured by other means scoring the responses
2. Its emphasis on the integration
and application of thinking and
problem-solving skills
3. They enable the direct
evaluation of writing skills
4. Its ease of construction
5. Its contribution to student
learning.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTING
ESSAY QUESTIONS
Restrict the use of essay questions to those learning outcomes
that cannot be measured satisfactory by objective items

Construct question that will call forth the skills specified in the
learning standard
SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTING
ESSAY QUESTIONS
Phrase the question so that the student’s task is clearly defined
SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTING
ESSAY QUESTIONS
Indicate an approximate time
limit for each question

Avoid the use of optional

question
 SCORING CRITERIA
Scoring Rubric For Restricted-Response
Essay Questions
In many instances, scoring guides for
restricted-response essay questions are
made readily constructed starting with
the teacher writing an example of an
expected response.
Analytic Scoring Rubrics For Extended-
Response Essays
Analytic scores for writing skills may
consists of just two broad categories
such as rhetorical effectiveness and
conventions or content quality
Holistic Scoring Rubrics fro Extended-Response Essays
Holistic scoring rubrics yield a single overall score taking into account the entire
response
Suggestions for scoring essay
questions
Prepare an outline of the expected Evakuate all responses to one question
answer in advance before on to the next one

Use the scoring rubric that it most When possible, evaluate the answers
appropriate without looking at the student name

Decide how to handle factors that are If especially important decisions are to
irrelevant to the learning outcomes be based on the results, obtain two or
being measured more independent ratings