Question 1

Which one of the following examples is most consistent with the textbook's definition of assessment?

Accepted Answer

A)  Having a student describe how long she studied
B)  Having a student swim two laps using the breast stroke
C)  Having a student form a visual image of a nine-sided polygon
D)  Having a high school student read two chapters of a college-level textbookE) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 2

Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to how developmental factors may affect children's and adolescents' performance on standardized tests.Which statement is not accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is more difficult to standardize testing conditions for young children than for students in the middle and high school grades.
B)  Young children's erratic behavior due to short attention span, poor motivation, etc.) can adversely affect a test's validity.
C)  Adolescents are more likely to have debilitating test anxiety than young children are.
D)  Adolescents are more likely to take a standardized test seriously than fourth graders are.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 3

Which one of the following teachers is most appropriately involving students in the grading process?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mr.Arnold meets individually with each student to develop contingency contracts that specify the instructional goals and objectives the student needs to achieve.
B)  Ms.Bestani asks students to submit written self-evaluations, and students' self- assigned grades count for about 25% of their overall grades.
C)  Ms.Chernyshov always describes the criteria she will be using to evaluate assignments, and every two weeks she distributes numerical "progress reports" to show students the grades they've earned so far.
D)  After class discussions, cooperative learning activities, and other fairly public demonstrations of achievement, Mr.DeJong has students rate one another's performance.Such ratings are used to determine grades in borderline cases.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

What role do item discrimination values from an item analysis play in our use of classroom assessments?

Accepted Answer

A)  They tell us whether items distinguish between high-scoring and low-scoring students.
B)  They give students feedback about how well they did on different kinds of test items.
C)  They tell us whether each item assesses lower-level or higher-level thinking skills.
D)  They tell us how many students in the class got each item correct.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 5

Of the four RSVP characteristics, informal assessment strategies are strongest with respect to:

Accepted Answer

A)  Validity
B)  Reliability
C)  Practicality
D)  StandardizationE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 6

When we represent students' test performance in terms of standard scores, we must first know the standard deviation of those scores.This statistic tells us:

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A)  What the average student's performance was
B)  How close together or far apart the scores are
C)  Whether the test has high predictive validity
D)  Whether the test has high reliabilityE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

As a chemistry teacher, you want your students to be able to remember the symbols for any chemical element

Accepted Answer

A)  Recognition questions rather than recall questions
B)  Recall questions rather than recognition questions
C)  Multiple-choice questions rather than true-false questions
D)  True-false questions rather than multiple-choice questions
E)  g., O is oxygen, C is carbon, Na is sodium, Au is gold) without having any hints about what each symbol might be.With this objective in mind, you will want to assess your students' knowledge using:F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

In the United States, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates three of the following.Which one does it not mandate?

Accepted Answer

A)  States must determine knowledge and skills that students should reasonably acquire at various grade levels.
B)  By high school, students must demonstrate knowledge of the structure and general policies of the U.S.government.
C)  States must regularly assess students' academic progress during the upper elementary and middle school grades.
D)  Schools that do not demonstrate progress are subject to certain sanctions
E)  g., administrative restructuring, dismissal of faculty members) .F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

You have just written a paper-pencil quiz for a unit on map-reading skills.Following the textbook's advice, you arrange the items by:

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A)  Putting easier items, as well as those that can be answered quickly, at the beginning of the test
B)  Putting more difficult items, as well as those that require considerable thought, at the beginning of the test
C)  Arranging topics in the sequence in which they were presented during instruction
D)  Interspersing shorter and easier items among longer, more difficult onesE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

As teachers, we need to be concerned that any assessment tool we use is actually assessing what it is supposed to assess.Here we are concerned about the of our assessment practices.

Accepted Answer

A)  validity
B)  reliability
C)  practicality
D)  standardizationE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

Which one of the following is probably the best alternative to high-stakes testing?

Accepted Answer

A)  Convincing lawmakers that standardized tests are essentially useless
B)  Using only performance assessments when making important decisions
C)  Using teacher-developed assessments that have reasonably high reliability
D)  Using multiple measures whenever important decisions are to be madeE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Which one of the following is the best example of high-stakes testing as educators typically use this term?

Accepted Answer

A)  A high school awards diplomas only to students who score above predetermined cutoffs on tests of writing, math, science, and history.
B)  A high school teacher gives exams that, in the opinion of students and their parents, are far too difficult for most 16- and 17-year-olds.
C)  When administering a series of tests to a middle school student to determine if he has a learning disability, a school psychologist asks questions about the student's religious beliefs, sexual activity, and other private, personal matters.
D)  A school district wants to track students' progress in various content domains.It administers a standardized achievement test to students at all grade levels, even those in first or second grade.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 13

Which one of the following statements best reflects the textbook's recommendation with regard to assigning criterion-referenced or norm-referenced grades?

Accepted Answer

A)  Assign criterion-referenced grades at all grade levels to the extent that such is possible.
B)  Assign norm-referenced grades at all grade levels to the extent that such is possible.
C)  Assign criterion-referenced grades at the elementary level, but assign norm- referenced grades at the high school level.
D)  Assign criterion-referenced grades in the lower elementary grades and in all low- ability classes; assign norm-referenced grades in high-ability classes in the middle school and high school grades.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 14

Three of the following are advantages of giving classroom assessments frequently rather than infrequently.Which statement is not accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Frequent assessment makes cheating less likely.
B)  Frequent assessment is less likely to tax students' long-term memory capabilities.
C)  Frequent assessment makes students less anxious because each assessment score is less important.
D)  Frequent assessment enables students to get ongoing feedback about their performance.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Ms.Beloit wants to describe her students' performance on a classroom achievement test in a way that her students can understand, so she scores it in terms of the percentage of correct items.Which type of score is Ms.Beloit using?

Accepted Answer

A)  A norm-referenced score
B)  A percentile rank
C)  A true score
D)  A raw scoreE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 16

The reliability of an assessment instrument tells us:

Accepted Answer

A)  Whether the instrument actually measures what it is intended to measure
B)  Whether the instrument predicts success in a future profession
C)  Whether the instrument assesses something consistently
D)  How norms for the instrument were obtainedE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 17

If we say that a particular classroom assessment instrument is highly reliable, we mean that it:

Accepted Answer

A)  Yields scores that fall in a bell curve
B)  Predicts future success in school
C)  Gives us similar results on different occasions
D)  Accurately assesses whether students have attained our instructional objectivesE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 18

Which one of the following teachers is using a norm-referenced grading system?

Accepted Answer

A)  In Ms.Albrecht's class, students who have completely mastered the material and can also apply it get an A.Students who have thoroughly mastered the material but cannot apply it get a B.Students who have mastered only the basics of the topic get a C.Students who have learned little about the topic get a D or F.
B)  In Mr.Buchanan's class, the ten students with the highest accumulation of points receive an A, the next ten receive a B, and so on.
C)  In Ms.Chan's class, students who get an average of at least 90% correct on tests and assignments get an A.Those with an average of 80% to 89% get a B, those between 70% and 79% get a C, and so on.
D)  In Mr.Davenport's class, students who have achieved all of his instructional objectives get a grade of "Pass"; students who have not achieved all objectives get a grade of "In progress."E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 19

Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to the disadvantages of portfolios.Which statement is not necessarily accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Teachers' overall ratings of portfolios often have low reliability.
B)  Portfolios discourage students from being creative in their classwork.
C)  Portfolios often contain different products for different students, reflecting a problem with standardization.
D)  Portfolios that contain only a few items may have poor content validity.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 20

When we say that an assessment instrument has norms, we mean that it:

Accepted Answer

A)  Can be interpreted with reference to others who have taken the assessment
B)  Has a manual that provides information about reliability and validity
C)  Has cutoffs regarding what is acceptable performance
D)  Has a distribution of test scores that fit a bell curveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Exam 14: Classroom Assessment Strategies

Which one of the following teachers is using a norm-referenced grading system?

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As teachers, we need to be concerned that any assessment tool we use is actually assessing what it is supposed to assess.Here we are concerned about the of our assessment practices.

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Which one of the following is the best example of high-stakes testing as educators typically use this term?

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Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to how developmental factors may affect children's and adolescents' performance on standardized tests.Which statement is not accurate?

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When we represent students' test performance in terms of standard scores, we must first know the standard deviation of those scores.This statistic tells us:

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Three of the following are advantages of giving classroom assessments frequently rather than infrequently.Which statement is not accurate?

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If we say that a particular classroom assessment instrument is highly reliable, we mean that it:

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What role do item discrimination values from an item analysis play in our use of classroom assessments?

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Ms.Beloit wants to describe her students' performance on a classroom achievement test in a way that her students can understand, so she scores it in terms of the percentage of correct items.Which type of score is Ms.Beloit using?

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Of the four RSVP characteristics, informal assessment strategies are strongest with respect to:

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When we say that an assessment instrument has norms, we mean that it:

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Which one of the following statements best reflects the textbook's recommendation with regard to assigning criterion-referenced or norm-referenced grades?

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Which one of the following teachers is most appropriately involving students in the grading process?

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The reliability of an assessment instrument tells us:

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You have just written a paper-pencil quiz for a unit on map-reading skills.Following the textbook's advice, you arrange the items by:

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Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to the disadvantages of portfolios.Which statement is not necessarily accurate?

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In the United States, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates three of the following.Which one does it not mandate?

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As a chemistry teacher, you want your students to be able to remember the symbols for any chemical element

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Which one of the following is probably the best alternative to high-stakes testing?

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Which one of the following examples is most consistent with the textbook's definition of assessment?

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