TCED 303 Final
Which of the following statements describes a balanced approach to formative and summative assessment in the classroom?
Students have opportunities to practice and improve before being graded.
At what achievement level in Tennessee is a student first considered "proficient"?
3
How many testing data points must a student have in Tennessee to receive a testing projection?
3
In Tennessee, _____ percent of a teacher's overall evaluation score comes from student growth, and _____ percent comes from student achievement.
35; 15
A personal communication assessment is a strong match for knowledge targets because
? It is not: it can directly assess the high-quality characteristics of products.
"Portfolio assessment" is not listed as an assessment method. Why not?
A portfolio is a collection of artifacts, each of which is assessed by the appropriate method.
Based on the data presented in this graph, what would be an appropriate administrative decision regarding this teacher?
A principal should feel comfortable placing this teacher with students at a variety of achievement levels.
Based on this student's performance in fourth grade, what question(s) should be asked at an administrative level?
All of the above
You should ask all of the following questions after administering a test to determine its appropriateness and validity EXCEPT:
Did everybody score a 100?
When creating task-specific rubrics, an egregious misconception that contradict the central understanding of the learning target is referred to as a __________.
fatal flaw
Which of the following represents a teacher who did NOT fulfill his or her assessment responsibilities as a teacher?
An eighth grade social studies teacher privately tracks formative assessment data to be shared at the end of the unit.
What is the best definition of the term "proposition"?
An element within a learning target that it is important for students to learn
Which statement best captures the meaning of the term "goal orientation" as it is used in Chapter 1?
A student's belief about the purpose of doing work in school
Which item-writing guideline does this multiple-choice item violate? Item: Which of the following persons is most likely to be physically fit?A. Alison has flexible muscles, good lung capacity, and a good body mass index.B. Benedict believes in a sound mind in a sound body and meditates regularly.C. Chelsea has competed in the 100-meter sprints in several national competitions.D. D'Angelo walks a mile on his treadmill and does 20 minutes of yoga every day.
Be sure there is only one correct or best answer.
What are the three steps needed to ensure that formative assessment affects achievement?
Examine information, interpret it, and act on it.
True or False: Performance skill learning targets are a strong match for a written response assessment.
False
Which one of the following statements about goal orientations is supported by the text in Chapter 1?
Giving students feedback rather than grades on practice work encourages a learning orientation.
For which of the following reasons might a teacher want to consider a student's aptitude when figuring a grade?
Grading by aptitude ensures that every student is graded according to their potential.
How can a teacher improve his or her feedback to make it more user-friendly?
Help the learner concentrate on one or two key elements of performance.
Which of the following is NOT a question answered by measuring student achievement?
How much progress has the student made since last year?
What is the main differentiator between formative and summative assessment results?
How the results will be used
Which of the following beliefs would likely prevent a teacher from seeing the need to use formative assessment practices?
If I instruct well and assign relevant work, students will master the learning target.
Which of the following is NOT an appropriate method for providing timely feedback?
Implement fewer learning experiences so that there is not as much to do.
What do the district level trends in this graph suggest about appropriate steps for improvement?
Improvement efforts should be focused on middle school math instruction.
Which of the following statements is an example of a proposition?
In constitutional republics, the power to govern is secured by the vote of citizens.
Mr. Farmer is creating a matching test for his students. He is worried about how fair they are--when students make one matching mistake, they automatically make two mistakes. What can he do to avoid this problem?
Include more response items than stems.
Which of the following is the best description of how the feedback loop balances formative and summative assessment?
It builds in time to assess student learning needs and act on the information before assessing their level of mastery for a grade.
Which statement is true for selected response assessment?
It can assess some forms of reasoning well.
Which of the following statements about the consideration of efficiency when selecting an assessment method is NOT true?
It is important to consider efficiency first, because you need to make sure you have to make sure the assessment is worth the time.
What does it mean to say that an assessment method is the "best choice"?
It is most likely to produce accurate results for a given learning target.
Which of the following is one of the criteria for a well-written short-answer item?
It should give enough information to guide students toward a strong response without giving the answer away.
Which of the following demonstrates the positive impact of formative assessment on student achievement?
Michael successfully gets the small engine to run after rewatching his teacher demonstrate the technique Michael had been using incorrectly.
Consider the following third grade math learning target: "Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides)." Choose the most appropriate short-answer item for this learning target, keeping in mind the criteria for a good short-answer question.
Name four ways that rhombuses, rectangles, and squares are alike.
Would it be appropriate to share this checklist with students at the same time they receive the following assessment item? "We have been studying the importance of the carbon cycle and how it works. Based on your understanding of the carbon cycle, explain 1) why we need to know about it, and 2) how carbon moves from one place to another. Be sure to include the following: Why it is important to understand the carbon cycle (5 points) The four major reservoirs where carbon is stored (4 points) At least six ways that carbon gets transferred from one place to another (6 points)
No, because the item already includes the appropriate information about how the response will be scored.
Consider the following comment written in response to a student's work: "This is a weak paper." Is this an example of useful feedback?
No; there is no actionable information about what occurred, so this is not useful feedback.
A student gets back a test from the teacher with a grade of "C" and the written comment "Keep trying, Sally!" Which part of Key 4: Effective Communication has this teacher not implemented?
Offering specific information to guide Sally's next steps.
In this chart, red means the students were well below their projection, light green means the students met their projection, and dark green means the students were above their projection. Which of the following is an accurate interpretation of the data in this graph?
Only 11.1% of the students in the school represented by column 3 were proficient on the state test.
How can teachers ensure the consistency of feedback?
Practice using highly descriptive rubrics supported by anchor products over time.
Although grades have historically been used to rank and sort students, why has the grading mission evolved in our society?
Schools are now expected to prepare all students for success for life beyond school.
One learning target for Chapter 5 is "Make an assessment blueprint for a selected response assessment." It is a product target, yet you are answering selected response questions about it. Why is that?
Selected response assessment can be used to check for prerequisite knowledge underlying creation of a product.
For which of the following reasons should a teacher avoid considering a student's effort when figuring a grade?
Signs of effort can be easily faked by students.
Which of the following is an accurate analysis of the data in the graph above?
Student B is closing the achievement gap between his or her previous and current performance.
What is the main difference between a summative purpose for assessment and formative purpose for assessment?
Summative assessment measures level of achievement for reporting purposes. Formative assessment measures level of achievement to support instructional decisions.
Which of the following best represents the teacher's responsibility to students when developing scoring guides for assessments?
Teachers should formulate scoring guides before our students are held accountable for them.
Coach Watson wanted to determine his students' knowledge of physical wellness, so he had the entire class attempt to complete twenty push-ups and recorded the names of those who were and were not successful. He then discussed with each individual student his or her performance and helped them all set goals for future improvement. What is wrong with Coach Watson's assessment method?
The assessment method was not valid because it did not represent the desired learning.
How is it possible to determine the accuracy of evidence about mastery?
The assessment was designed according to standards, and instruction was given with the assessment in mind.
Which one of the following statements best explains why "Understand sampling considerations" has been assigned fewer items than "Know when to use selected response assessment?"
The information regarding sampling considerations in Chapter 5 is relatively simple.
Based on the data presented in this graph, what would be an appropriate administrative decision regarding this teacher?
The principal should pair this teacher with an instructional coach for improvement.
Mr. Saylor intends to assess students' understanding of the meaning of transpiration using this item: Transpiration is ______________________________________________________________. What problem does the item have?
The question stem does not provide enough information.
Which of the following can be determined about the students in grade three based on this graphic?
The red student exceeded grade level achievement expectations.
Which one of the following is the most likely consequence of a student adopting a learning goal orientation in school?
The student will keep trying in the face of difficulty.
Feedback is considered to be a formative assessment practice. Which of the following is necessary for it to function formatively?
The students must act on the feedback.
What can be said about the job that the third grade teacher did with the student whose data is represented in this graph?
The teacher helped grow the student by 12 percentile points.
What implications does this data report have for a teacher working with this student in the current academic year?
The teacher must push this student and demand perfection in testing situations.
Growth measures in Tennessee compare students with _______________
Their own prior percentile rank among students in previous years.
What is one limitation of fill-in items?
They take longer to score.
Which of the following inferences is supported by this data report?
This student experienced a difficult transition to middle school.
What impact would this teacher likely have if placed in an advanced classroom?
This teacher would likely cause his or her students to show negative growth.
Summative assessment is generally used in which way?
To determine report card grades
Which of the following is the best explanation of what it means to grade?
To summarize information and present it with a symbol
Neither ease of scoring nor authenticity alone provide an acceptable basis for selecting an assessment method.
True
True or False: Performance assessments are a strong match for assessing product learning targets.
True
Mr. Sparrow wants to use formative assessment to help his students master the learning target "create a line graph to represent a data set." Which strategy should he begin with?
Use examples of strong and weak work.
What is a major difference between formative and summative events?
When each occurs in the learning process
Mr. Everett's students all received As or Bs as a final grade in algebra. His administrator is questioning his grading policies as a result—no class in her experience has ever attained such high grades in algebra. What is the likely belief underlying the administrator's concern?
When grading is done accurately, not all students will achieve at high levels.
Why is it not recommended for teachers to offer students choices among response items on an assessment?
When students select their own sample, it can misrepresent their true level of mastery.
When is it NOT necessary to write propositions before developing selected response items?
When the learning target specifies the exact content to be assessed
What can we say is this teacher's strength in teaching his or her students?
Working with average-achieving students.
What can we say is this teacher's strength in teaching his or her students?
Working with low-achieving students.
Which of the following best describes the target types suited to written response assessments?
Written response assessments can assess all patterns of reasoning.
Which of the following best describes the use of written response assessments to assess knowledge-level targets?
Written response assessments enable students to demonstrate the conceptual connections in their learning.
When feedback is concrete, specific, and useful by the receiver of the feedback, it can be said to be __________.
actionable
Extended response items assessing knowledge mastery should include all of the following criteria EXCEPT:
added information to assist those students who have not mastered the content
Which of the following is most accurately labeled as a "Personal Communication" assessment?
an interview
A(n) __________ rubric has two or more rating scales in which features of quality are rated independently from each other.
analytic
The extent to which the context of an assessment task mirrors an application found in life outside of school is called _______________.
authenticity
The categories of quality that comprise an analytic rubric are known as __________.
criteria
_________ refer to sentences or phrases representing each indicator at each level.
descriptors
An assessment's reliability refers to its ability to
give consistent results with each use.
Feedback that recognizes a person's objective and provides information about his or her actions to reach that objective is called ____________.
goal-referenced feedback
How is "assessment literacy" best described?
having the ability to measure and report student achievement accurately and use assessments to improve learning
The fact that this student scored in the 99th percentile means __________
he or she outscored 99 percent of students with similar testing histories.
A(n) ____________ rubric has only one rating scale in which all features of quality are considered together when determining the score.
holistic
Feedback is basically defined as _______________.
information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal
Which of the following is not a concern of "Feasibility and Fairness" when designing a performance assessment?
learning target alignment
Decades of education research support the idea that by teaching _____ and providing _____ feedback, we can produce greater learning.
less; more
__________ on a rubric are the points on a scale defining range or degrees of quality.
levels
Performance assessments really include which two assessment activities?
performances and artifacts
Which assessment method is most likely to take place DURING the learning process rather than after?
personal communication
Growth is measured with a statistical model based on predicted percentile scores for upcoming achievement tests. These predictions are called _________.
projections
Performance assessments are limited by all of the following concerns EXCEPT:
the application of real-world contexts
The consistency at which a student demonstrates mastery of learning target is something to consider when determining
the appropriate sample size
Which of the following is the most appropriate time for assessments to take place during the teaching and learning cycle?
throughout
Which of the following describes the appropriate use of a performance assessment of a knowledge-level target?
to assess primary students or students who cannot read or write
Assigning a higher point value to certain assessments so that they count more toward the final grade is known as __________.
weighting
