Which term describes a guide used to align test items with educational objectives?

• A. Table of Specifications (TOS)
• B. Sentence Structure
• C. Conjunction
• D. Direct Address

Answer: (A)

A table of specifications acts as a guide that links each test item to specific educational objectives, ensuring alignment between what is taught and what is tested. It serves as a test blueprint, mapping content areas to desired cognitive levels (such as recall, analysis, or evaluation) and showing how many items will address each area. This structure helps guarantee comprehensive coverage of the curriculum and a balanced difficulty across the exam, supporting validity and fairness in assessment. The other terms are related to grammar: sentence structure concerns how sentences are built, conjunctions connect words or clauses, and direct address involves speaking to someone directly in writing or speech. They don’t describe a planning framework for aligning test items with objectives.