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Reliabilty = ?
Consistency
A performance task requires students to construct a(n) _____ response.
Original
What does it mean to be fair while evaluating a student?
Avoid being biased
T/F: Scoring Rubrics shouldn’t be descriptive
FALSE! They need to be as detailed and descriptive as possible
What happens is a rubric is not descriptive enough?
The results will be unreliable
Validity = ?
Accuracy
List at least two examples of performance assessments?
Creating a product, making a presentation, constructing a response, etc
Maddie's math teacher is teaching her how to tip a server using percentages. Performing a task that can be encountered in real life is which type of assessment?
Authentic Assessment
T/F: Teacher’s should have more than 8 evaluation criterias in a rubric
FALSEEE! It's is recommended to have no more than 3-4
T/F: It is fundamental to score an assessment based on more than 5 qualities
FALSEEE!
What are curricular aims and why are they important when it comes to teaching?
Curricular aims characterize the outcomes of instruction, and are fundamental since they define what teachers need to assess their students on.
T/F: Dr. Williams took 15 minutes to construct a performance assessment, is this possible?
FALSE! They can be very time consuming.
Does performance assessment focus on a small number of more important tasks or on a large number of less important tasks?
A small number of more important tasks
List one of the three types of rubrics
Task-specific, hyper-general or skill-focused
T/F: Mrs. Terret is scoring Myrias assessment, a student from Ukraine, and gives her a D because one of Mrs. Terret ex's who cheated on her is also from Ukraine. Is Mrs. Terret being fair? What is one term that we learned that justifies this type of behavior?
She's being biased!
What are personal characteristics or elements of a biased assessment ? (list 3 or more)
Race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, place of origin, etc
Authentic or Alternative
REMEMBER: They mean something different, but are sometimes reffered by teachers as the same!
Amarissa spent $765 on materials to construct a performance assessment in her classroom, which evaluating criteria is Amarissa ignoring: generalizability, authenticity, multiple foci, teachability, fairness, feasibility, or scorability?
Feasibility
These type of rubric can be used to evaluate criterias across different tasks
General Rubrics
What is the Halo Effect?
Picking favorites
List two out of the four sources of validity evidence
Test content, Response Processes, Internal Structure, and Relations to other variables
What is one of the three key features of performance assessments?
Multiple evaluative criteria or pre-specified quality standards or judgemental appraisal
Dylan and Justin, two 7th grade history teachers, get together to construct an assessment on the Civil War and decide to only include 3 of the most important curricular aims of their lesson on the assessment, is focusing on only 3 aims the best way to for them to assess their students?
Yes! It's better to have a small number of more important curricular aims
Explain the meaning of holistic or analytic rubrics? (pick one)
Holistic rubrics provide a single score based on an overall impression of a student’s performance on a task.
Analytic rubrics provide specific feedback along several dimensions.
T/F: Mrs. Bruno is grading presentations given by her students. Maria, one of her students, used a colorful template and included multiple visuals in her presentation, such as videos, pictures, and icons. On the other hand, Carlos, another student, created a presentation that was black and white and had paragraphs with information in all his slides. The Rubric clearly stated that students were expected to make their presentation interactive and not include many words on each slide. Mrs. Bruno grades the presentations and gives Maria an “A”, and Carlos a “C,” is Mrs. Bruno being biased when grading?
FALSE! The requirements/expectations were clearly stated in the rubric