Classroom Assessment Final Exam 1-16

Which of the following assessment strategies involves the systematic collection of students' work?

portfolio

If you scored an 85% on a norm-referenced exam, you scored:

?

Many experienced assessors of student affect suggest the most appropriate way for classroom teachers to monitor their students' affect is through the use of:

Anonymously completed self-report inventories

Which of the following is a general item-writing rule that should be followed in the writing of all items for classroom assessments?

Attempt to employ syntax in test items that is well within the understanding levels of the students being assessed.

Before beginning a new instructional unit, a teacher administers a pretest and finds that half of the students do not have the necessary prerequisite skills for the new unit. How should the teacher proceed?

Divide the class into two groups and provide remedial activities for those who did not pass the pretest.

Which of the following is an item-writing guideline for the construction of multiple-choice items?

Don't ever use "all-of-the-above" alternatives, but use a "none-of-the-above" alternative to increase an item's difficulty.

Which of the following gives parents the right to access their children's grades and standardized test scores?

Family Educational Rights Privacy Act of 1974

Which of the following is the most troublesome problem facing those educators who wish to rely heavily on the use of performance tests?

Making valid inferences about students' generalized skill-mastery

Which of the following assertions is most accurate?

Norm-referenced score-based inferences and criterion-referenced score-based inferences are not essentially interchangeable.

Which of the rules given below accurately reflects one of the guidelines generally given to classroom teachers who must score students' responses to essay items?

Prepare a tentative scoring key prior to judging any student's response—being ready to modify it if this seems warranted during the scoring.

Which is the best procedure for providing feedback after a classroom test?

Return test papers to students and go over each question.

As a teacher is walking around and monitoring the class on their individual work, she notices that only 2 or 3 students out of 15 get number 7 correct. What should the teacher do?

Stop the class and go over the concept again before having students move on.

Which of the following descriptions of validity is most accurate?

Validity refers to the accuracy of score-based interpretations about students.

Which of the following is the most effective way to communicate students' academic progress to parents?

online grade book

Which of the following phrases is most commonly used to describe a portfolio focused on a student's self-evaluative and ongoing improvement in the quality of work products?

Working portfolio

A teacher wants to analyze areas of need in the curriculum. Which of the following would reflect the necessary data?

a teacher's grade book

A 4th-grade student (A fourth-grade student) receives a grade equivalent score of 6.2 in Reading on a state standardized achievement test. This means that the student performed

above average for a 4th-grader. (above average for a fourth-grader.)

Which accommodation for taking a multiple-choice test would best serve a mid-level ELL student?

allowing the student extra time to complete the test

Portfolio assessment is an effective way to evaluate the writing products of English language learners because it

allows the teacher to evaluate student growth over time.

A math teacher is in the initial stages of planning a unit. The teacher realizes homework will play an important role in student success. The teacher examines the following research table that displays the effectiveness of various approaches to assessing homework assignments. What approach to assigning homework will have the greatest positive impact on student performance? Research Results for Graded HomeworkUse of HomeworkAverage Effect SizePercentile GainGraded with Feedback.8530Graded.7527Reviewed in Class.2712Checked for Completion.2310

assigning select problems and grading them with specific feedback

Which of the following information about student assessment data can be shared with the public?

class reading levels combined in an overall point system

A fifth grade student has difficulty with reading. Which of the following is the most appropriate assessment to diagnose the needs of this student?

criterion-referenced reading assessment

A fourth grade teacher is computing grades for language arts progress reports. For this grading period there are ten assignments: two vocabulary tests, two book reports, four homework assignments, and two in-class writing assessments. The scores on each have been translated into percentages prior to computing the final grade. The teacher is using a grading method known as

criterion-referenced.

Which of the following types of assessment results are most sensitive to small changes in student performance over time?

percentages

Which assessment format is likely to create the fewest issues for a student with language difficulties?

performance

The primary function of a summative assessment is to:

determine mastery of content.

A student appears to be struggling with a reading subskill after initial instruction. The teacher wants to find out what component of reading is hindering comprehension. Which of the following assessments would best aid the teacher?

diagnostic

A teacher would use this assessment to determine where to place a student based on reading level.

diagnostic assessment

Students are given a demanding task and then asked to respond to that task orally, in writing, or by constructing a product. This type of evaluation is a(an)

performance assessment.

A teacher was directed to use the results of student exams to determine individual professional development goals for the next school year. Using the school's data-monitoring system, the following report was generated for the teacher. 1st Quartile first quartile 2nd Quartile second quartile 3rd Quartile third quartile 4th Quartile fourth quartile FallSpringFallSpringFallSpringFallSpring% of questionscorrect on exams % of questions correct on exams 34% 34 percent 55% 55 percent 48% 48 percent 65% 65 percent 60% 60 percent 82% 82 percent 84% 84 percent 83% 83 percent Based upon the data in the given report, which of the following professional development activities would be most applicable?

enrichment strategies

The most effective method for enhancing a student's ability to write a paper is to

establish required criteria and use formative assessments.

The primary purpose of a formative assessment is to

guide the pace of future course instruction.

Which of the following would be considered a curriculum-based assessment?

individual portfolio

A review of a student's record reveals the following scores from a norm-referenced test over the past 3 years. Grade 7blankReadingLanguageMathematicsScienceScale671635752689Percentile54239372Stanine5496Grade 8blankReadingLanguageMathematicsScienceScale697654752702Percentile70339374Stanine6496Grade 9blankReadingLanguageMathematicsScienceScale716656781694Percentile83399970Stanine7496 Based on the assessment results, which content area should the teacher focus instruction on first?

language

If a student is taking a test where the results are used to compare the student to other students, he or she is taking a _______________ test.

norm-referenced

Which of the following assessments would be best for comparing a student's knowledge with that of other students in the same grade level?

norm-referenced

When evaluating the current reading curriculum, a grade-level team wants to analyze changes in student test scores from the beginning of the year to the end of year. What type of assessment should they use to help make this decision?

pre-test and post-test common assessment

A teacher wants to determine student knowledge at the beginning of a lesson. Which type of assessment is most appropriate?

pretest

Which of the following assessments is most appropriate for a small group of students who are performing below expectation in the area of oral reading fluency?

progress monitoring

At the beginning of the year, a teacher wants to use statewide assessment data to determine specific academic strengths and weaknesses of incoming students. Which of the following types of data would be most helpful in making these determinations?

raw scores

A teacher is preparing students for a statewide assessment. The teacher asks the students to underline the bold type in the questions on the practice test. This test-taking strategy is known as

recognizing the key words.

A 6th sixth-grade language arts teacher is looking for an assessment tool to use with his students' performance products this year. He would like a tool that has scoring standards composed of model answers to score the tasks. The best tool for this purpose would be a

rubric

A beginning teacher notices that students are having difficulty mastering the properties of light on a science test. The best next step for the teacher to take would be

seeking input from a peer teacher.

Which of the following would be the most helpful to a teacher evaluating a high school class's current knowledge in reading and mathematics?

statewide achievement test data

A 4th-grade fourth grade team analyzes student test scores from the beginning and the end of the school year to determine whether to continue using the current core reading curriculum. Which of the following is the best type of assessment to use for this purpose?

summative