Formative
Summative
Performance
Lesson Planning
Mystery!
100
"In what year did the U.S. enter World War II?" is this type of question.
What is a convergent question?
100
Providing a large-print version of a test is an example of this.
What is a testing accommodation?
100
Specific behaviors a student should perform to properly carry out a performance or create a product
What are performance criteria?
100
These are the three main components of the instructional process.
What is planning instruction, delivering instruction and assessing learning outcomes?
100
The most efficient type of summative assessment for this learning objective: "Students will recall the meaning of each word on the vocabulary list."
What is a multiple choice test?
200
Type of assessment that is not structured or standardized.
What is informal assessment?
200
Type of test question well-suited to lower-level cognitive objectives.
What is multiple choice?
200
A single, overall score for a performance or product
What is a holistic score?
200
Objectives based on this level of Bloom's Taxonomy use words like "critique," "justify" or "discriminate."
What is Evaluation?
200
A type of assessment used for "sizing up" student abilities and interests.
What is early assessment?
300
An example of this method of formative assessment is watching students' facial expressions during a lesson.
What is observational assessment?
300
The main problem with this test question: "Who was Geraldine Ferraro?"
What is having multiple correct answers?
300
This tool allows the teacher to judge student performance along a continuum, but is not always easy to summarize as a single score.
What is a rating scale?
300
A quality of lesson plans indicating that objectives, tests, and activities are all linked.
What is alignment?
300
A weakness of performance assessments is that they have less of this quality than standardized tests.
What is reliability?
400
Method of formative assessment that helps pace the class as well as giving the teacher quick diagnostic information.
What is oral questioning?
400
This shows the number of items for each content and process dimension of a test.
What is a table of specifications?
400
This occurs when judgments of performance are influenced by irrelevant, subjective criteria.
What is bias?
400
The biggest problem with this learning objective: "Students will understand the concept of right triangles."
What is unmeasurable?
400
The most important purpose of assessment.
What is making decisions?
500
Teachers ask questions of many different students during a lesson so that their assessment has this characteristic.
What is reliability?
500
A test that covers material different from what was taught in class lacks this.
What is validity?
500
If the performance scoring focuses on giving feedback to students about their overall strengths and weaknesses, the assessment is this general type.
What is formative?
500
The three main steps (in order) in backwards design.
What are Identify desired results, Determine acceptable evidence, and Plan instruction?
500
An assessment is valid if it produces _____ information for making an intended decision.
What is sufficient?
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