Short Answer Items
An item that asks students to give a word, phrase or sentence as a response to a question or incomplete statement
Short-Answer Items
What is a difficulty of developing essay items?
They are harder to write
Analytic Scoring
How many blanks should be used in incomplete-statements?
One or Two
What are the goals for an essay item? (There is 3)
Gauging the student's ability to synthesize, evaluate, and compose
A scoring strategy focused on the response as a whole
Holistic Scoring
According to the Chapter when creating Short-Answer questions what type of questions are recommended to make
Direct Questions
The Label used to represent the task of an essay item
Prompt
When grading an essay what should you strive for?
Anonymity
Where should the response areas for short-answer items be on a test?
Right Hand Margin
(Immediately after the question(s))
If items on your tests have different point values what should you do?
When grading an examination with multiple essay items what should you do?
Grade every students response to the item before moving on to the next.
According to the chapter what is a way to nurture concise responses to Short-Answer items? (2 possible Answers)
If you provide students the option to choose to write 3 out of 5 possible essay questions what is the consequence as the teacher?
Impossible to judge on a common scale.
Why should you devise a tentative scoring Key?
So you are not influenced by the responses of the first few students you grade.