Alternative assessments are constructed response or supply-type measurements. With all types of alternative assessment, students must actually construct a response--not select or choose a response. Examples of constructed responses are giving a speech, carrying out a project, and completing short-answer items. Constructed response assessments are often referred to as "subjective" tests. However, although some constructed responses, like essays, are judged subjectively, others, such as sentence completion items with only a single correct answer, may be scored objectively (McMillan, 2001).