7. Any important human characteristic is necessarily measurable.
8. Human characteristics that are hard to measure are likely to be of limited
importance.
9. Either an essay test or an objective test can be used to measure any
important cognitive achievement.
10. Multiple-choice items that present correct answers among the response
options can indicate quite accurately an examinee's ability to produce
correct answers.
11. Items based on realistic problem situations tend to yield unreliable test
scores.
12. Items that consist of incomplete propositions each of which is accompanied
by one correct and one or more incorrect completions can yield
valid measures of achievement.
13. Items that provide only two response options can measure achievement
satisfactori ly .
14. Technologies for the mechanical or semiautomatic generation of test
items are likely to be of limited value.
15. Simplicity in the conception of what to test and in the means used to test
it is commendable.
Paraphrasing Plato's assessment of the ideas he attempted to illustrate in the
Allegory of the Cave, "Heaven knows if these things are true , but this, at any
rate, is how they appear to me.