How to Write a K-12 Bookkeeping Test

Bookkeeping is a subject that will be useful for the rest of your life. People use bookkeeping everyday--to balance their checkbooks, to make budgets and to check their credit card statements. Therefore, it is important that educators make sure that their students learn bookkeeping. The only way to do that is to be sure they can pass a bookkeeping test. The following will help you write a K-12 bookkeeping test.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Review the material you have taught your class. While you are reviewing, write down the important points you want to cover in the bookkeeping test.

2. Decide on the type of questions you want to use. You can use multiple choice, fill in the blanks and problems. Next to the points you have written down you should put which type of question each point will be best suited for.

3. Write down the questions that you will use on the test. These do not have to be exact at this time. You should start to make question from the important points you wrote down in Step 1. You can still amend them later on.

4. Reread the bookkeeping material and see if the questions fit the material. This is where you should fine tune the questions. You also want to decide if you are using them as multiple choice, fill in the blanks or problems.

5. Assign points to each question. If you have 20 questions and the total a person could get on the test is 100, you would think this would be a simple task of assigning 5 points per question. However, you should give more points to the problems than you would to the multiple choice or fill in the blanks.

6. Type the bookkeeping test and make copies to distribute to your class. You will also need to make an answer sheet so you will have it available to grade the bookeeping tests when you get them back.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't forget to put a time limit on the test.
• The teacher's book often has questions and answers you can use on a test--you can incorporate these into your test.

Resources

• The really useful list of fill-in-the-blank web tools for teachers and students.
• Writing multiple-choice test items.
• Writing multiple-choice test items.

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