Assessment quiz

What is a concrete concept?

A class of things that can be defined by a common sound, appearance, taste, or smell.

What is an open-response assessment task?

A problem that has many correct solutions.

What is a growth and learning progress portfolio?

A sample of a student's work showing changes in achieving the learning objectives.

As part of their science grade, students observed the clouds between 10:00 and 10:45 a.m. on a particular day, reported their observations, and predicted the next day's weather. What type of assessment task is this?

A structured, on-demand performance

Which of the following statements is characteristic of the best answer item?

All options have some degree of correctness.

What is meant by an authentic assessment?

An assessment that indicates how well a student can perform in real-life situations.

What is a context-dependent item?

An item that is based on some information or material that precedes it.

Which of the diagnostic approaches is implied when a teacher says, "I'm interested in finding out why my students continue to say that wrapping a cold bottle of soft drink in a woolen sweater will warm the soft drink?"

Analysis of knowledge structure

What is the most appropriate way to score a performance assessment that is used to identify students' problems which need remediation?

Analytic scoring

Which of the following would most likely ensure that an essay test emphasizes the proper learning objectives?

Ask a colleague to review the items in light of the curriculum

Ms. Bastien wanted to help her fourth-grade students understand what good reports should look like, for her unit on United States geography. Which of the following is the most effective strategy for her to do that?

Ask students to deduce criteria from good examples from the previous year.

Which of the following procedures is the best way to assess rule-governed thinking?

Ask students to state the consequences of applying the rule under given conditions.

How do you assess a student's ability to use rule-governed thinking?

Ask the student to apply the rule in a novel situation.

Which of the following is the best way to assess the concept "triangle"?

Ask the student to identify the triangles among a number of objects of different shapes.

Which of the following will be the best technique for the summative assessment of students' work?

Comprehensive tests

Which of the following formats best assesses higher-order thinking processes students use to solve problems?

Essay items

Why is evaluative feedback less useful than descriptive feedback?

Evaluative feedback contains less information for improvement than descriptive feedback

Which of the following item formats is most appropriate for assessing students' ability to organize personal thoughts?

Extended response

What type of essay item assesses students' ability to select relevant information and organize their ideas?

Extended response essay

A good way to assess students' knowledge of state capitals would be to construct a matching exercise with the 50 states as premises. True or False

False

A student who uses random guessing on a test comprised only of true-false items has a good chance of getting a good score. True or False

False

Restricted response essay items can be used to assess only recall and comprehension of factual information. True or False?

False

The validity of the results from a restricted response essay item will tend to be lower than those from an extended response essay item? True or False

False

To assess problem-solving skill you should present to the student a familiar situation so that the student can perform the task without thinking about it. True or False

False

When crafting a completion item, it is best to use a statement taken verbatim from the textbook, delete an important word, and replace the word with a blank. True or False

False

When deciding whether to use performance assessments the first thing you must consider is how many times you want to assess students during the marking period. True or False?

False

When writing a matching exercise, it is important to ensure that the number of responses is equal to the number of premises. True or false?

False

Which of the following is an excellent basis for forming distractors when constructing multiple-choice items?

Faulty common knowledge typically held by students

What is a common problem teachers face when giving feedback to struggling students?

Feedback looks like a long list of things to "fix."

Which type of item is best to use when assessing recall of factual information?

Fill-in-the-blank items

A student is having trouble using your feedback to revise work. You are sure the feedback is clearly written. What should you do?

Help the student clarify the learning target

Which of the following is NOT part of a learning unit assessment plan?

How this unit's assessment fits into the year's overall assessment strategy

Which of the following can be meaningfully used as introductory material for context-dependent item sets?

I Formulas II Extracts from weekly magazines III Drawings IV Topographical maps All of these

Which of the following is a learning target for one lesson?

I can set up a long division problem so it is easy to do

Which of the following is likely to be an appropriate student goal?

I want to be able to graph linear equations.

A social studies teacher assesses students by presenting them with a description of a problem situation. The students must describe the problem in their own words, describe a factor or factors that make it difficult to solve this problem, and come up with at least two ways to solve the problem. Which specific problem-solving strategies may this teacher assess?

Identifying the problem, identifying obstacles, and describing multiple strategies.

In general, which of the following assessment alternatives would yield the most valid results for purposes of formative assessment of students?

Interviewing students individually

What is a serious weakness of the prerequisite knowledge and skills approach to diagnosis?

It does not provide information as to why students err.

Besides monitoring a student's progress, what other educational role does a growth-and-learning-progress portfolio play in the academic life of the student?

It fosters student learning through self-evaluation

What is the main effect of rater drift in scoring essays?

It increases inconsistency in the ratings

Which of the following approaches is at the right level of specificity for a student who has a few errors in comma usage on a one-page composition?

Mark each place where a comma is needed and ask the student to write a "good copy" of the paper.

Which of the following comments is an example of descriptive feedback?

Nice use of the cloud images!

Which of the following frameworks is inappropriate for prerequisite knowledge and skills assessment?

Norm-referencing

A student in your class has turned in very poor work that shows she does not understand the learning target and shows no evidence of intended knowledge and skills. What should you do?

Reteach

Suppose correctness of spelling is not part of the learning objective being assessed with an essay test. How should spelling be handled when scoring the essays?

Score spelling separately but give it a weight of zero in the students' total score.

Which of the following assessment alternatives yields results that have the lowest validity for assigning summative grades to students?

Standardized tests

Ms. Galecky teaches fifth grade. She has assigned pairs of students to give each other peer feedback on their first drafts of a report on The Thirteen Colonies. During the class peer feedback lesson, she finds her students are mostly joking around. What should she do?

Stop the lesson and teach students how to give peer feedback

What, if anything, is wrong with the following item? "The part of speech that modifies a noun is called an _______."

Students who do not know the content will be clued by the grammatical structure of the item.

Two essay items, one a restricted response type and the other the extended response type, are used to assess a group of students on the same content. Which type is likely to yield the more reliably scored results and why ?

The restricted response type, because it is more focused than the extended response type.

What is the main way that the tabular item format is different from a matching exercise?

The tabular item set uses more than one homogeneous set of responses.

One ten-point quiz consists only of traditional true-false items. Another ten-point quiz for the same content, consists only of multiple true-false items. How does the reliability of the scores on the two quizzes compare?

The traditional true-false quiz is likely to be less reliable.

Which of the following types of tasks is the most unstructured?

There are many possible processes leading to many equally justifiable solutions

Which of the following statements is NOT a quality of context-dependent item sets?

They encourage students to memorize the relevant facts.

Why is understanding typical learning progressions in a certain content area important for formative assessment?

They help teachers interpret students' work in relation to the intended learning goal.

What is the main purpose for keeping records of the important results of your formative assessment?

To make sure your approach is systematic

A major problem with using performance assessment methods is that students do not perform consistently from one task to another. True or False

True

Feedback is maximally effective in a classroom environment where mistakes are viewed as opportunities to learn. True or False

True

In classroom assessment, it is acceptable to include on a test multiple-choice test items with different numbers of alternatives. True or False?

True

In classroom assessment, matching exercises are most useful when learning objectives involve classification of some sort. True or False?

True

In naturally occurring performances students usually do not know that they are being assessed while the opposite is true with structured tasks. True or False?

True

In the development of assessment blueprints, the number of learning objectives in each topical area helps determine the weighting given to the particular area in the assessment.

True

It is acceptable if a student can answer a test item correctly by using his or her partial knowledge of the learning objective. True or False

True

When crafting multiple-choice items it is important to ensure that the distractors are plausible to students who do not know the answer. True or False?

True

You will improve the reliability of your students' fill-in-the-blank test scores if you use an answer key to score their responses. True or False

True

Which of the following is able to best assess students' breadth of content knowledge?

True-false

Which of these learning objectives can be assessed better using objective items rather than essay items?

Understanding the civic responsibilities of a citizen.

Which of the following questions is open-ended?

What are some ways we can clean up our atmosphere?

Which of the following comments is an example of cognitive feedback?

You missed a lot of the problems about subtracting mixed numbers.

For most formative assessments, the best feedback includes

a description of the work and suggestions for improvement.

The table of specifications is

a two-way grid of content and thinking skill categories.

When assessing students' higher order thinking skills, the main focus of your assessment should be to require students to

apply their knowledge in situations you did not explicitly teach.

Conversations as an informal formative assessment technique will yield the best result(s) when the questions require students to

express insights and understandings.

In classroom assessment, fill-in-the-blank items are typically scored with the same objectivity as multiple-choice items. True or false

false

A good true-false item is one that is obviously correct

only to a person who has a good command of the course material.

Before you decide on what content should be included in students' portfolio, you should clearly identify the

purpose of the portfolio.

An advantage of performance assessment over the traditional objective formats is that performance assessment

requires students to apply their knowledge and skills in doing things.

Class discussions can yield formative assessment information if they

show what students are thinking.

At the planning stage of instruction, the teacher should be most concerned with

the entry knowledge and skills of the students.

If your fill-in-the-blank items fail to follow your assessment plan, the most probable effect is to lower the

validity of your students' scores.