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What is assessment?

Choose two answers.

The process of obtaining a numerical description of the degree to which an individual possesses a particular characteristic.

Any of a variety of procedures used to obtain information about student performance.

An instrument or systematic procedure for measuring a sample of behavior by posing a set of questions in a uniform manner.

An integrated process for determining the nature and extent of student learning and development.

Any of a variety of procedures used to obtain information about student performance.

An integrated process for determining the nature and extent of student learning and development.

What makes up a well-balanced assessment program?

Choose two answers.

Assessment methods with one type

Standards based on the high-stakes tests

Performance Assessments that are authentic

Classroom achievement tests aligned to objectives

Performance Assessments that are authentic

Classroom achievement tests aligned to objectives

What type of assessment allows for a teacher to answer the following questions:

To what extent do the students possess the skills and abilities that are needed to begin instruction?

To what extent have the students already achieved the intended learning outcomes of the planned instruction?

Formative

Diagnostic

Summative

Placement

Placement

During whole group instruction, a mathematics teacher is showing the students how to complete long division problems. The teacher continues with a learning game to reinforce the process. At this time, the teacher doesn't notice any major concerns.

Then, while walking around the classroom observing students work through practice problems independently, the teacher notices once student who is off task. This student expressed understanding of the process, although is taking a long time to complete each problem. Upon looking closer, the student is using his/her hands to multiply.

What type of assessment is being administered to figure out the problem?

Readiness

Diagnostic

Formative

Summative

Diagnostic

Assessment planning should be guided primarily by the ...

Teacher's interests on the topic

Instructional objectives on grade level

Number of students taking the assessment

Students' performance on prior assessments

Instructional objectives on grade level

Differentiated instruction....

a. Tells us when to teach the same standard to a range of learners by employing a variety of teaching and learning modes

b. Tells us how to teach the same standard to a range of learners by employing a variety of teaching and learning modes

c. Tells us why to teach the same standard to a range of learners by employing a variety of teaching and learning modes

d. Tells us what standards to teach to a range of learners by employing a variety of teaching and learning modes

b. Tells us how to teach the same standard to a range of learners by employing a variety of teaching and learning modes

A student in 4th grade has a visual perceptual processing disorder that makes it challenging to interpret information.

What would be an appropriate assessment accommodation for this student on a standardized test as established by an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) team?

Work with a classmate to complete the assessment

Show student the test questions ahead of time to prepare

Use books, worksheets and other materials with small print

Read written directions, questions, and response options aloud

Read written directions, questions, and response options aloud

During an observation, while the class is listening to a tape of sounds (stamping, clapping, musical instruments etc.) the teacher notices that some students would make appropriate actions after looking around to see what the other students were doing.

What differentiated instructional strategy would be appropriate for this situation?

Choose all that apply.

a. Teach only one sound at a time

b. Allow students to choose sounds

c. Provide pictures or objects of the sounds on tape

d. Provide repetition of the sounds before introducing new sounds

a. Teach only one sound at a time

c. Provide pictures or objects of the sounds on tape

d. Provide repetition of the sounds before introducing new sounds

A third grade history-social science teacher wants to assess students' on their higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills regarding the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedom.

What assessment option would best achieve this goal?

Matching American heroes to the risk he/she took to ensure our freedom

Write an essay on their favorite American hero and his/her risk taken to ensure our freedom

Identify American heroes through the use of a short answer item by providing the risk he/she took to ensure our freedom

Compare and contrast essay in which students write about two American heroes and the risks they took to ensure our freedom

Compare and contrast essay in which students write about two American heroes and the risks they took to ensure our freedom

A student in 5th grade has an audio processing disorder (ADP) that classifies as a learning disability (as to opposed to student that may only need a 504 plan).

What is an unethical practice for this situation?

Read test questions aloud to student

Allow oral responses on each question

Permit scribe to record student responses

Student provides tape recorded responses

Limit length of the time test is administered

Limit length of the time test is administered

A 5th grade science teacher wants to fully prepare the students to distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text.

What is an ethical practice while preparing for standardized assessments?

Choose two answers.

Prepare study guides based on test items

Use practice tests to prepare students for the format

Prepare curriculum objectives based content standards

Develop curriculum based on specific content of standardized tests

Use practice tests to prepare students for the format

Prepare curriculum objectives based content standards

During the administration of a standardized test, a 6th grade English teacher removes access to aids (e.g. word walls, dictionaries) that could inflate student assessment scores. While the assessment is in progress, the teacher notices that one of the students is having a hard time making an inference from the text because one of the words is unknown.

What is an ethical practice to assist in this dilemma?

Allow student to use a dictionary

Follow procedures for administering

Define or pronounce words used on the item

Provide additional instructions or explanation

Follow procedures for administering

Teachers' standards for student assessment focus on . . .

Indicate all that apply.

Interpreting and using assessment results

Administering and scoring them incorrectly

Preparing valid grades and communicating assessment results

Competence in selecting and developing assessment methods

Allowing inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information

Interpreting and using assessment results

Preparing valid grades and communicating assessment results

Competence in selecting and developing assessment methods

A teacher walks into the teacher's lounge to collect his/her mail. There are parent volunteers making decorations for an upcoming dance. The teacher overhears two colleagues talking about assessment data and mentions students first and last names.

What is an ethical practice with this situation?

Ignore the conversation

Approach teachers directly

Participate in the discussion

Report to the student's parents

Approach teachers directly

What law required states to set challenging standards for student achievement, develop, and administer assessments to measure student progress towards those standards?

No Child Left Behind Act

Every Student Succeeds Act

Individuals with Disabilities Act

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

A parent teacher conference was scheduled to discuss student assessment scores after the first grading period. The parent fell ill and forgot about the meeting.

What would be an ethical practice when dealing with this situation?

Mail the results to the address on file

Send the results home with a neighbor

Reschedule the conference to discuss the results

Address the results during the next grading period

Reschedule the conference to discuss the results

When preparing for standardized assessments, teachers should..

Choose all that apply.

Align curriculum to content standards

Teach strategies for preparing for the test

Familiarize students with the test item format

Encourage low-achieving students to miss testing

Align curriculum to content standards

Teach strategies for preparing for the test

Familiarize students with the test item format

A classroom teacher is provided with the following learning objective:

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

What type of selected response item would be appropriate for this objective?

Essay

Matching

Short answer

Performance assessment

Matching

A 5th grade math teacher wants to assess student learning using selected response items.

Based on the following learning objective, what would be the most effective selected response item.

Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.

Choose all that apply.

Essay

True/false

Multiple choice

Performance task

True/false

Multiple choice

During classroom instruction, a first grade teacher wants to quickly assess student learning. All of the students are completing an activity with the use of a thermometer.

State standard: Students know how to use simple tools (e.g., thermometer, wind vane) to measure weather conditions and record changes from day to day and across the seasons.

What would be the best assessment method for the situation?

Give students a quiz on the topic covered in class

Create an assessment to be placed in their portfolio

Administer a summative assessment to the students

Observe students working independently or in groups

Observe students working independently or in groups

Which of the following would indicate the lowest level of learning for a student?

Applies a principle

States an example of the principle

Gives a textbook definition of a principle

Explains a principle in his/her own words

Gives a textbook definition of a principle

External influences such as disruptions during testing that may lower the scores of the students are referred to as . . .

Random errors

Standard errors

Reliability errors

Systematic errors

Reliability errors

Test items that are unrelated to the intended learning outcomes is a concern related to ...

Validity

Difficulty

Reliability

Maintainability

Validity

A classroom teacher notices that one of the students seems to participate well in classroom discussions and seems to know the answers. However, when this student takes a paper-pencil test the student doesn't perform well.

What might the teacher do to see if the paper-pencil test is producing valid results of this student's knowledge?

Work one-on-one with the student to make sure he/she knows the answers to the questions on the paper-pencil tests in advance so that he/she will do well on the test

Have the student work with another student and ask the peer tutor what he/she thinks the student knows as this will eliminate stress for the student taking the test

Create smaller tests so that the students can work on smaller amounts of materials and use the classroom test time on looking at the items closer

Use multiple methods of assessing so that students who don't do well on paper-pencil tests have other opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge

Use multiple methods of assessing so that students who don't do well on paper-pencil tests have other opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge

Which of the following is a TRUE statement?

Paper-and-pencil tests are low in realism of task BUT high in assessment time needed

Performance assessments are low in complexity of task BUT high in assessment time needed

Paper-and-pencil tests are high in realism of task AND high in judgment in scoring

Performance assessments are high in complexity of task AND high in assessment time needed

Performance assessments are high in complexity of task AND high in assessment time needed

A classroom language arts teacher wants to assess his/her students' ability to apply principles of writing poetry.

What is an appropriate summative assessment in this situation?

Have students write an original poem

Have students report on their favorite poetry author

Have students write an essay on why they enjoy poetry

Have an assistant administer a state standardized test on poetry

Have students write an original poem

An advantage of restricted performance tasks over extended performance tasks is that they . . .

Give valid assessment student data

Easier to judge and score performance

Include numerous instructional objectives

Provide more student choice in the instructions

Easier to judge and score performance

What provides a framework for curriculum development, instruction, and the assessment of student achievement and consist of statements that specify in a general way what students should learn?

Expectancy Table

Content Standards

Learning Objectives

District Benchmarks

Content Standards

What is TRUE regarding benchmarks?

Use specific verbs from Bloom's taxonomy to show level of instruction and assessment

Describe how students will demonstrate achievement and intended learning outcomes

Clarify what students know or can do when they have achieved the content standards

Provide guidelines for planning instructional activities and preparing assessment instruments

Clarify what students know or can do when they have achieved the content standards

A teachers writes a unit on the roles of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. Government for a third grade class. While writing the unit, the teacher refers to the State Standards, then writes the following goal for one of the lessons:

Discuss the importance of public virtue and the role of citizens, including how to participate in a classroom, in the community, and in civic life.

What is this statement?

a. Standard

b. Benchmark

c. Learning objective

d. Learning outcome

c. Learning objective

A teacher in 5th grade is planning a unit on the state standard:

Students will be able to understand the location of the current 50 states and the names of their capitals.

What objective aligns with the given standard?

Student will list the 50 states and the names of their capitals

Student will recite the 50 states and the names of their capitals to the class

Student will identify the 50 states and the names of their capitals on a map

Student will differentiate between the 50 states and the names of their capitals

Student will identify the 50 states and the names of their capitals on a map

A kindergarten teacher is planning a unit on nutrition and physical activity using the following California Health Standard:

Students will understand how to practice health-enhancing behaviors.

What objective aligns with this health standard?

Identifying a variety of healthy snacks

Analyze the harmful effects of using diet pills

Examine the health risks caused by food contaminants

Explain why people with eating disorders need professional help

Identifying a variety of healthy snacks

A teacher informs students that they need to decide on a science project for the science fair. The teacher provides the students with a list of 50 possible projects and tells the students to choose one of the projects. They will be graded using a rubric.

Which type of performance assessment fits this situation?

Choose all that apply.

Product

Extended

Restricted

Procedure

Product

Extended

Procedure

Which of the following is/are appropriate guideline(s) for writing test items?

Choose all that apply.

Write more items and tasks than needed

Write each item or task at an appropriate reading level

Write the items and task well in advance of the test date

Write each test item or tasks so that the performance is clearly defined

All the above

A teacher is creating an assessment including matching items for the class.

What are the most common limitations of matching items?

Choose two answers.

Possible to measure a large amount of information

Highly susceptible to the presence of irrelevant clues

Restricted to the measurement of factual information

Used to relate two things that have some logical basis

Highly susceptible to the presence of irrelevant clues

Restricted to the measurement of factual information

Upon receiving the results from the state standardized achievement test, the 4th grade teachers come together to discuss strategies for next year. One of the teachers points out that over half of their English Language Learners (ELLs)scored in the 10th percentile in reading.

What conclusion can be made?

Directions used vocabulary that was familiar to all students

Visuals were underutilized during the instruction of concepts

ELLs scored higher than 9% of the students who took the test

ELLs scored among the top 10% of the students who took the test

ELLs scored higher than 9% of the students who took the test

What increases validity of assessment results?

Scoring using a holistic rubric

Questions containing various biases

Items written by a textbook publisher

Tasks that provide an adequate sample

Tasks that provide an adequate sample

A percentile rank of 50 on an achievement test indicates that...

The student failed the test

The student guessed on at least half the items

The student's raw score was at least 50 out of 100

The student did as good or better than half the class

The student did as good or better than half the class

During a conference a teacher explains the standardized test scores to both the parent and student. The student is in the middle of sixth-grade.

The grade equivalent scores from a test battery reveal the following: mathematics 7.5, reading 7.2 and language 7.3.

How can the teacher best explain these scores without causing confusion?

Choose two answers.

These scores mean that the student can do the work between the range of 7.3 and 8.5.

These scores mean that the student should be moved into a seventh-grade classroom for instruction.

These scores mean that the student is working more rapidly and efficiently than the average sixth-grader.

These scores mean that the student is more advanced than the students in the norm group for sixth-grade.

These scores mean that the student is working more rapidly and efficiently than the average sixth-grader.

These scores mean that the student is more advanced than the students in the norm group for sixth-grade.

A student scored the fourth highest in the class.

What interpretation has been made?

Norm-referenced

Domain-referenced

Criterion-referenced

Performance-referenced

Norm-referenced

Which of the following is a TRUE statement?

Norm-referenced tests are typically used for mastery testing.

Criterion-referenced achievement tests rank individuals in order of their achievement.

Both a norm-referenced and criterion-referenced interpretation may be used with the same assessment.

Both a norm-referenced and criterion-referenced interpretation may not be used with the same assessment.

Both a norm-referenced and criterion-referenced interpretation may be used with the same assessment.

Assigning grades by comparing student performance with a pre-specified standard is referred to as . . .

Relative grading

Absolute grading

Performance grading

Standardized grading

Absolute grading

Relative grading applies a . . .

Norm-referenced approach

Criterion-referenced approach

Objective-referenced approach

Illustrative-referenced approach

Norm-referenced approach

A 2nd grade teacher wants to assess for mastery of concepts for the following state standard:

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

What type of grading should be communicated to the students prior to administering the assessment?

a. Relative

b. Absolute

c. Borderline

d. Descriptive

b. Absolute

What is the purpose of a teacher observing students creating a concept map during ELA (English Language Arts) instruction?

Choose all that apply

Monitoring progress

Checking for understanding

Guiding classroom instruction

Providing immediate feedback

All the above

At the beginning of the year all of the 5th grade teachers meet to discuss the standardized achievement test results from the previous year. During their analysis, one teacher points out that a majority of the students did not perform well in science.

What are two appropriate actions?

Choose two answers.

Adjust pacing and provide resources to support hands-on activities

Reevaluate science curriculum used to ensure alignment to standards

Allow the students to come together again and retake the assessment

Require high-achieving students from previous year to tutor current students

Adjust pacing and provide resources to support hands-on activities

Reevaluate science curriculum used to ensure alignment to standards

An 8th grade teacher wants to use an authentic assessment to assess student's ability on the safe use of scientific equipment at the end of the unit.

What assessment is appropriate?

a. Interview each student using verbal questions

b. Observe students using the scientific equipment

c. Ask students to write an essay on the importance of safety

d. Use a standardized achievement test from a textbook publisher

e. Administer a teacher-produced pencil-paper test built on state standards

b. Observe students using the scientific equipment

What are assessments for learning and assessments of learning?

Assessments of learning are formative and assessments for learning are summative.

Assessments for learning are formative and assessments of learning are summative.

Assessments of learning are formal and assessments for learning are informal.

Assessments of learning are formative and assessments for learning are formal.

Assessments for learning are formative and assessments of learning are summative.

What information can be found on a school accountability report card (SARC)?

Choose two answers.

Percent of males and female scoring at proficient or advanced

Number of proficient students in English-Language Arts and Mathematics

Family demographic information by ethic group and socioeconomic status

Student test scores with number of questions correct by learning objectives

Percent of males and female scoring at proficient or advanced

Number of proficient students in English-Language Arts and Mathematics

A beginning teacher is seeking support from a mentor teacher and asks the following question:

What allows instruction to be most effective?

Choose two answers.

Materials are used year after year to provide consistency

Directed toward a clearly defined set of intended learning outcomes

Students are periodically informed concerning their learning progress

Objectives are based on the large scale assessments at the end of the year

Directed toward a clearly defined set of intended learning outcomes

Students are periodically informed concerning their learning progress

An advantage of performance-based assessments over achievement tests is that they can be used to evaluate

The attitudes of students

The reading skills of students

The level of a student's knowledge

Both the process and product of a task

Both the process and product of a task

After administering a diagnostic assessment in mathematics, a teacher determined that a 2nd grade student is struggling with borrowing.

What is an appropriate action plan?

Choose two answers.

Send home advanced problems

Skip to the next lesson in the unit

Flexible groups with practice drills

Review basic concepts needed to build

Flexible groups with practice drills

Review basic concepts needed to build