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Terms in this set (105)Which of the following is most likely to help a teacher score classroom performance assessments reliably? Use scoring rubrics for scoring. Among the following, which is the BEST way for a teacher to improve the validity of classroom assessment results? Assess students on the same learning outcome using several different procedures. What information does diagnostic assessment seek to acquire? Students' specific strengths and weaknesses Sally and Sam both took the same science achievement test. The standard error of measurement (SEM) for the scores is 2.8. Jane obtained a score of 67 and John obtained a 65. Is it reasonable to conclude that Jane and John have the same level of science achievement? Yes What does the term "reliability" mean in regard to test scores? Consistency of scores across various factors What is the best way to align instruction with state standards? The teacher breaks each state standard down into specific learning objectives for lessons. Evidence that a social studies test adequately samples a specific area of the social studies curriculum is called content-related evidence. A teacher used a unit test to grade her students. After the test, she reviewed students' performance in terms of their difficulties and strengths. This helped the teacher plan her instruction for the next unit. The unit test served as both a formative evaluation of the students and a summative evaluation of the students Which of the following is an inappropriate way of using assessments to motivate students? Telling students the upcoming test will be very hard
Which of the following best explains the importance of using statements of learning objectives in the assessment of students? The teacher knows the specific outcomes students should attain and develops appropriate assessment procedures to assess them. For feedback to students to be most effective, the teacher should ensure that students review their performance to correct their mistakes. Homework results are most useful for which of the following classroom decisions? Deciding if students are ready to move on to a new activity In order to judge the validity of assessment results, one should look primarily for a combination of sound research and logical explanation demonstrating the appropriateness of the interpretations. Three multiple-choice tests were constructed to cover the same curriculum area. Test A had 20 items, Test B had 40 items, and Test C had 60 items. What is the most accurate statement that can be made about the reliability of these tests? Test C will have the highest reliability and Test A will have the lowest reliability.
Reliability is a(an) ________ condition for validity of the results of a test. necessary Which of the following actions is recommended as an ethical practice? Giving students the scoring rubric for a performance assessment when the assignment is made To whom is the teacher's primary responsibility when using assessments and making educational decisions? Students and their learning Do students with disabilities have to pay for accommodation provided for their assessment? No A student reported being bored in class. She and her parents requested that she be considered for the gifted and talented program in the school. The school psychologist administered an intelligence test and, based upon the score, informed her parents that she did not qualify to get into the gifted and talented program. Is this an example of responsible use of assessment for decision-making? No, because the pupil should have been given a number of assessments before classification College students in an Educational Psychology class were asked to participate in a research study about cooperative learning. Each student was asked to sign a release form giving the researchers permission to use data from observations, interviews, and assignments. This is an illustration of seeking informed consent. Which of the following is an important issue to consider when you accommodate students with disabilities? A) (ALL OF THEM ARE RIGHT) A school superintendent released a data file containing students' state test scores (without identification) for a research study. Did the superintendent violate students' privacy? No A middle school teacher gave her low-achieving students a blueprint for their upcoming unit test to help them study. Students who were not low-achieving did not get a blueprint. The teacher called this "differentiation." Which of the responsibilities of teachers has she violated? Fairness to all students Marlon continually picked fights with his classmates, called out in class, and interfered with instruction. Would Marlon's teacher be justified in failing him? No, because achievement should be measured separately from behavior A parent brought to the attention of a teacher that she had mis-marked their child's test. What would you recommend to the teacher? The teacher should re-score the test, change the grade, and thank the parent for bringing it to her attention. Which of the following activities is NOT a responsible professional action on the part of the teacher whose students ranged widely in socioeconomic status? Assigning an out-of-class project that required purchasing art supplies Providing timely feedback to students after assessing them is important because students need to Both know their grades and correct their mistakes to improve In selecting published material to assess students in your classroom, which of the following is the most important criterion? How well the tasks match what you taught In order for a school system to make good decisions about students, they must regularly update students' records. A teacher had students switch papers and grade each other's quizzes. Then she called roll and entered each student's quiz grade in the gradebook program as the student called it out. What principle has been violated in this scenario? A students' right to privacy. Can a school send students' records to another school when a student moves, without the permission of the parents? No Which of these scoring practices is NOT responsible professional behavior? Giving extra points on a project to students who showed a lot of effort Which of the following kinds of feedback is generally most effective for both computer-based and paper-pencil feedback? Elaborative feedback Which of the following types of knowledge is LEAST meaningfully assessed by using multiple-choice items? Metacognitive knowledge What is the purpose of a growth and learning progress portfolio? To show change over time on selected learning outcomes Which of the following is able to best assess students' breadth of content knowledge? True-false Which of the following kinds of comments distract students from their learning objectives? Comments about the student as a person Which of the following assessment methods is most closely associated with formative evaluation of students? Classroom questioning strategies Why are most standardized achievement test not very useful for providing diagnostic information to the teacher? They usually cover a very broad range of learning objectives. For which item type is the chance of guessing correctly the highest? True-False What is a context-dependent item? An item that is based on some information or material that precedes it Which of the following is an advantage of the matching set over multiple-choice items? Matching sets save space Which of the following diagnostic approaches uses a norm-referencing framework to interpret students' needs? Content strengths and weaknesses What is a major problem associated with the content area strengths and weaknesses approach in diagnostic assessment? It doesn't supply enough detail to support instructional planning. An eighth grade Social Studies class had to write an analysis of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. A low achieving middle school student turned in an assignment that was not acceptable. Which of the following feedback is most likely to help the student? Return the paper with one specific suggestion for improvement and ask the student to revise. True-false items are able to assess the A) At the beginning of the class period, students receive feedback on their first drafts of a graphic novel project. Which strategy is likely to be most effective for improvement? Ask students to look at their feedback and make revisions as part of the same lesson. One major purpose of pre-assessment is To help plan for instruction Which type of item is best to use when assessing recall of factual information? Fill-in-the-blank items Which of the following is the best way to assess the concept "bicycle"? Ask the student to identify the bicycles among pictures of a number of different objects. A social studies teacher wants to assess students' knowledge of countries' capital cities. Which item format is the best for this purpose? Matching Items Which of the following scoring options is most appropriate to evaluate students' responses to a task intended to assess students' problem-solving abilities? A scoring rubic Which of the following can be meaningfully used as introductory material for context-dependent item sets? all of these To assess problem-solving skills, you should present to the student a novel situation. True Which of the following learning objectives can be assessed more appropriately using objective items rather than essay items? Understanding the properties of the periodic table of the elements in a chemistry course 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 Students should be assessed by requiring them to reproduce what was taught in class. True Why are problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities often assessed together? These abilities are often used together in both real-life and academic situations. What is a good source of reading passages for a reading comprehension test in third grade? A third-grade level book that students have not read Mr. Green wanted to give his students choices about which essays they would answer on his unit test. He wanted to have them choose three out of five questions to answer. You want to discourage him from this plan. What reason should you give him for not allowing this kind of student choice on his exam? Students' scores on the test will not all mean the same thing. What is an open-response assessment task? A problem that has many correct solutions A task that assesses understanding of a concrete concept should require a student to demonstrate how the concept is related to other concepts that the student knows. True For what level students would extended response essay items be most problematic? Elementary students Which of the following formats best assesses higher-order thinking processes students use to solve problems? Essay Items A schema can be described best as the way we represent information in networks of related concepts. 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. A science teacher wants to assess students' ability to select relevant information about global warming and organize their ideas into a comprehensive analysis of the issue. What type of essay task should she use for this purpose?
Extended response essay What is the advantage of arranging a test's items in the order in which the topics were covered in class? It helps students recall information better For the following, select the type of grading illustrated by the question below.A teacher compares the performance of each student with the performances of other students in the class. Grades are awarded according to the student's rank relative to others. Norm-referenced grading A teacher used the following assessment tasks while teaching a unit. Choose the correct weight for the assessment tasks based on the description below.Student essays that were marked without using a scoring rubric vs. Student compositions that were marked with a well-defined scoring rubric The second task should have more weight in determining the unit grade. How does worry interfere with students' test performance? Worried students are distracted from the test items. The most important recent technological developments for classroom testing purposes are technological solutions to problems of accessibility for students with disabilities. Refer to the Item Analysis Information Chart above. Which is the poorest functioning item? Item 3 Which of the following grading approaches is most compatible with standard-based approaches to teaching? Criterion-referenced grading Does applying a correction for guessing formula to a response-choice test affect the scores of students who guess correctly? No Why should you group test items according to the type of item (multiple choice, true/false, etc.)? It reduces students' cognitive load. The validity of grades depends on the A) A teacher used the following assessment tasks while teaching a unit. Choose the correct weight for the assessment tasks based on the description below.An essay question requiring students to evaluate a new situation by using criteria taught in class vs. An essay question requiring students to recall explanations and reasons that were taught in class. The first task should have more weight in determining the unit grade. Grading on the curve is a method that compares students' performance to their classmates' performance. How does blind guessing show itself in an item analysis? The upper group's responses are evenly distributed across the options. Which of the following methods of reporting student progress is the most responsive to parents' questions? Parent-teacher conference In certain school district the policy is to assign grades according to how well a student achieves the state's standards. A teacher gave Sophia a slightly higher grade even though she didn't meet all the standards, because she really tried very hard. Has the teacher acted in a manner consistent with the school policy? No Which of the following methods of reporting student progress is likely to be most reliable? Percentage grades (99, 98, 97, etc.) Refer to the table above. Suppose a total points method is used to create a composite grade. What is Alva's weighted composite grade on the 0-100 percentage scale? 80% What is the best way to arrange items on a test? From easiest to most difficult What can a test-wise student do that non-testwise students cannot? Use item flaws to improve her score. Your school district is looking for a standardized test to assist with program evaluation. What is the most important consideration for the test selection committee? How closely the test specifications match the district's curriculum What is the most important reason to prefer tests developed using empirical research over tests that were not developed using empirical research? Research-based tests are of higher quality. On an arithmetic test taken by a class of 32 pupils, Rowan got 90. How well did Rowan perform? Not enough information is given to answer this question. During the time that students are taking a standardized achievement test the teacher should ensure that all students work on the correct pages and record their answers properly. Which of the following information can NOT usually be obtained from the publisher of a test? Samples of current test items Which of the following must a teacher do to make a valid interpretation of a student's assessment performance? Both Relate the student's performance to the domain of learning objectives the assessment sampled and Compare the student's performance with the performance of other students who took the same assessment are necessary for making valid interpretations. For which of the following purposes can a teacher use standardized achievement tests? Describing a student's educational development Classroom teachers can use derived scores to describe their students' performance when they want to Both compare student's achievement with the total domain to be learned and compare students' positions within the group Are the national norms provided by different standardized achievement test publishers essentially equivalent? No Which of the following activities is (are) OPTIONAL for a teacher when preparing to administer a standardized achievement test? None of these What is the chief advantage of using local norms for interpreting standardized test scores? The local norm group includes students with similar educational backgrounds and abilities. An elementary school has identified a test that sounds promising for use in evaluating their mathematics curriculum. Where can they look to find information about the quality of this test? Mental Measurements Yearbook 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. Reviews of tests can be found in all of the following EXCEPT Test in Print. Which of the following describes a derived score? A number telling the percentage of test items a student got correct Where would you look to see if there was a published test that measures a specific area of interest to your school? Tests in Print Which of the following is used for norm-referenced scores? Percentile rank of the test performance Dan's parents blamed his poor standardized test performance on the teacher. Is it appropriate to hold the teacher responsible for Dan's poor standardized test performance? No, because the teacher is only one of a number of factors that influence Dan's learning Which of the following is a criterion-referenced interpretation? 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