Assessment Final

Formative assessment results from quizzes, hw, and classroom activities should play a major role in determining a student's marking period grade.

False

What is missing from the following statement of a specific learning target? "The student should understand the functions of the parts of a flower."

The Performance

The difficulty of a multiple choice item can be increased by using distractors that are very similar to the correct option.

True

A student who uses random guessing on a test comprised of true-fals items has a good chance of getting a good score.

False

What is the flaw in the following item "_____ is an example of a mammal."

Misplacement of blank

Which of the following is a prerequisite to a student's learning to add two-digit numbers with carrying to the tens' or hundreds' place?

Ability to do column addition with no carrying for three digit numbers

True-False items are able to assess the...

All of the above-ability to recognize generalizations in a subject, ability to compare concepts, ability to recognize instances or examples of a principle.

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

All-formulas, drawings, maps, magazines

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

Analytic scoring

With regard to Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives, the statement, "The student will use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangle problems," is an example of...

Application

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 is the best way to assess the concept "triangle"?

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

What is the most important drawback in using norm-referenced grading?

it doesn't indicate what learning targets a student has learned

Any deviation by the teacher from directions for administering a standardized achievement test would...

lead to the reduction of the validity of the results of the test.

A distractor functions best when it appears attractive to...

less knowledgeable students only.

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

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

A fundamental assumption underlying the use of grading on the curve is that the...

relative standing of the individual is most important.

A private high school wants to use a test as one of its admission requirements. Which type of test would be recommended if the main purpose of the test is to predict a candidate's overall academic performance?

Assessment of general scholastic aptitude

Which type of multiple choice item type presents options of various degree of correctness?

Best answer variety

A teacher used the midterm exam to grade the students. then the teacher reviews students' performance in terms of their difficulties and strengths over the first half of the semester. this helped the teacher to plan his instructional activities for the second half of the semester. the midterm served as...

Both A and B- a formative and summative evaluation

A sixth grade class was studying a certain kind of math problems, and they were going to have a test on Tuesday. Which of the following is an example of student self-regualtion of learning?

Both A and B-not doing hw and asking for more practice problems

Which of the following teacher statements tends to lower test anxiety the most?

Concentrate on what you need to do

For which type of classroom decision do homework results provide the most useful information?

Deciding if the students are ready to move on to a new activity

Suppose you want to use test scores to rank order the students. The test items assess several different skills and abilities. What statistical properties should the items have?

Difficulty between.40 and .60, Discrimination <.30

What does scaffolding mean in performance assessment?

Directions provided by the task to guide the student

Mr. Jared's math performace tasks requires students to develop and exaplin two or more ways to solve a math probelm. Because students will give many different but correct solutions to the problem, Mr. Jared's scoring rubric needs only general statements about how the alternative solutions will be marked.

False

The probability of randomly guessing the correct answer to a multiple choice item increases as the number of alternative increases.

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.

False

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

False

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

Faulty common knowledge typically held by students

An essay questions requiring the students to evaluate new situations by using criteria taught in class, vs, an essay question having students recall explanations and reasons that were taught in class:

First has more weight

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?

Fosters student learning through self-evaluation

A teacher knows that Linda always performs at the top of her class. On one units' summative assessments, Linda's performance was not very good but the teacher gave her a high grade reasoning that Linda just had an "off day." Which type of error did that teacher most likely commit?

Halo effect

Which of the following are you trying to minimize when you cover up students' names before you score their essays?

Halo effect

Which of the following is the most important consideration when deciding how much weight an assessment result should carry in the students' composite grade?

How closely the assessment matched what you emphasized in class.

Which of the following describe performance assessments?

I and III-a math teacher gave each student 10 geometric shapes and required them to classify them according to their characteristics and to label the categories. (and) A history teacher asked students to collect data on family life during the American Civil War and to prepare a summary of their findings.

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

Interviewing the students individually

Why is it considered unethical to give students practice on the same test items that they are going to be administered later?

It reduces the achievement inferences you can make from that test result.

What is one clear advantage of using multiple true false items over traditional multiple choice items?

Multiple true false items have higher reliability than comparable regular multiple choice.

Ms. Jones' students keep all of their week's seatwork and homework assignments in a folder. At the end of the week they bring it home. Is Ms. Jones using a portfolio assessment method?

No

Calvin was nasty to his teacher. When the teacher asked him to behave, he continued to conduct himself in an unacceptable manner. The teacher then told him that if he continued to behave that way she would not pass him. Was the statement from the teacher appropriate?

No, because a student's achievement should be assessed independently of his conduct.

A first grade student was reffered to the school psychologist who administered the WPPI test to the student. Based solely on the result of this test, it was concluded that the pupil had mild retardation. Assuming the test results are valid, is the decision appropriate?

No, because the pupil should have been given a number of assessments before classification.

An 8th grade Social Studies class had to write an analysis of Lncoln's Gettysburg Address. A low achieving middle school student turned in his assignment that was not acceptable. Which of the following feedback is most likely to help the student?

Return the paper with specific suggestions for improvement, and ask the student to revise.

When writing multiple choice items you discover that several items have the same options. What is the best thing to do?

Rewrite the items as a matching exercise

Which of the following measures is most likely to be used for RTI progess monitoring in an elementary reading class?

Number of words read correctly per minute

Which of the following would be an effective formative assessment technique for a class working on group projects involving posters and presentations, to be graded with rubrics?

Peer assessment, using rubrics

Which statement best shows the relationship between placement and selection?

Placement does not involve rejection but selection does.

Which of the following essay scoring factors is LEAST likely to lower the validity of social studies scores?

Quality of the ideas

Suppose correctness of spelling is not part of the learning target 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 student's total score.

A principal wanted to award prizes to students who demonstrated the best sense of citizenship. The principal asked the students' teachers and their immediate past teachers to rate the students. With which type of reliability should the principal be most concerned?

Scorer Reliability

Students essays marked without a rubric, vs, compositions marked with a well defined rubric:

Second should have more weight

A teacher compares a student's achievement during the marking period with the learning ability she thinks the student has. The grades are awarded according to how well the student has lived up to his capacity.

Self-referencing

Mrs. Jonah observed her students during a science lab in order to determine what the students needed to learn to be effective in carrying out lab experiments. Which of the following best describes what Mrs. Jonah did?

She assessed her students' performance in the lab.

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

Standardized tests

What is 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.

What is the major advantage to a classroom teacher of knowing the students' scores on a standardized multi-level achievement battery?

Students' relative strengths and weaknesses in different curriculum areas can be determined.

A group of students was administered a different but similar set of assessment tasks, one set in the morning and one later in the day. the assessor wanted to find out whether the relative ordering of the students was similar on both sets of assessment tasks.

The data is used for alternate form (same occasion) reliability

A group of students was assessed on two occasions with the same assessment tasks with a week's interval between assessments. the assessor wanted to find out whether there was a marked change in students' ranking in the group.

The data is used for test-retest reliability

When crafting her test items for the end of term exam in social studies, Ms. Morrison checked each item to see if it matched the material that she taught the class.

Validity evidence illustrates content representativeness

In depth essay question covering 1 of the 8 learning targets and marked with a good rubric, vs, a test comprised of short answer and completion items covering 7 of the 8 targets:

The second has more weight

Lab reports the content of which assessed 2 of the 8 unit learning targets, vs, quizzes that assessed 6 and the 8 unit learning targets:

The second tasks should have more weight in determining the unit grade.

Which of the following best illustrates an appropriately stated learning target?

The student will explain how airplanes fly

In a marking period, there are 100 possible points to earn. 20=Hw, 40=midterm, 40=unit exam. On the basis of the final sum, the teacher awarded grades to the students. What type of criterion-referenced grading is the teacher using?

Total points method

A good assessment task should help you to distinguish clearly between less knowledgeable and knowledgeable students

True

A poorly functioning multiple choice item can often be rewritten into two or more good true-false items.

True

In classroom assessment, matching exercises are most useful when learning targets involve classification of some fort.

True

The letters assigned as students' grades are supposed to represent the levels of quality of students' performance.

True

Very often the validity of your interpretations of students' test scores is lower when you use tests that come with your curriculum than when you make it yourself.

True

Which of the following learning targets can be assessed more appropriately using objective items rather than essay items?

Understanding the civic responsibilities of a citizen.

In selecting a particular technique to use in assessing students ,to what should the teacher pay attention to first?

Use to which the assessment results will be put

After administering a test of 100 multiple-choice items to a class of 50 students, the teacher correlated the students' item scores with their total scores on the test.

Validity evidence illustrates the internal structure of the task scores.

When your short-answer items fail to follow your assessment plan, the most profitable effect it to lower the...

Validity of your students' scores.

For a meaningful feedback to students on their essays, the teacher should...

comment only on a few errors that are relevant for subsequent work.

A best answer variety multiple choice item is most useful for assessing critical thinking when the...

criteria for evaluating the best answer have been explicitly taught.

A teacher compares the student's performance with the learning targets that student is expected to attain during the marking period.

criterion-referencing