Assessment in which students provide written responses to written items
What is paper-pencil assessment
100
Extent to which an assessment yields consistent information about the knowledge, skills or characteristics being assessed
What is Reliability
100
The paper-pencil item question most recommended by experts.
What is multiple-choice items
100
What are the reliability issues of performance assessments?
What is
-Teachers may rate the same performance differently
- Students don't always behave the same way
- Teachers must evaluate several complex behaviors and may miss some of them
100
Name 3 benefits of informal assessments
What is
- Offer continuing feedback
- Easily adjusted to specific needs
- Supports or questions data from formal assessments
- Provides cues about social, emotional and motivational factors affecting performance
200
Assessment tool developed by an individual teacher for use in his or her own classroom
What is Teacher-developed assessment
200
Extent to which an assessment instrument or procedure in inexpensive and easy to use and takes only a small amount of time to administer.
What is Practicality
200
Assessment task in which one must identify correct information among incorrect statements
What is recognition task
200
How practical are performance assessments?
What is not always very practical
200
Informal assessments are always reliable (T or F)
What is False
300
Assessment in which students demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a non-written fashion
What is performance assessment
300
Extent to which an assessment involves similar content and format and is administered and scored similarly by everyone.
What is Standardization
300
Assessment task in which one must retrieve information from long-term memory with only minimal retrieval cues
What is recall task
300
Is a single performance task enough to ensure the validity of the assessment?
What is no, several performance tasks need to be administered
300
Informal assessments can rarely be standardized (T or F)
What is True
400
Assessment instrument that indicates how students perform relative to a peer group.
What is norm referenced assessment
400
Extent to which an assessment actually measures what is intended to measure and allows appropriate inferences about the characteristics or ability in question.
What is Validity
400
Name 3 recommendations for constructing paper-pencil assessments
What is
- Combine multiple formats in a single assessment
- Rephrase ideas presented in class or reading materials
-Use new exampled to encourage further learning and transfer
-Define tasks clearly and unambiguously
400
Some performance assessments are easily standardized. When they are not, we should use them in conjunction with ______ to ensure the validity of the results.
What is multiple assessments
400
Although very practical, informal assessments have serious problems regarding reliability, validity and standardization. Hence, we should treat any conclusions we draw as ...
What is hypothesis that we must prove or disproof by other means
500
Assessment instrument designed to determine what students know and can do relative to predetermined standards or criteria.
What is criterion-referenced assessment
500
Name the 3 kinds of validity (for TWO donuts!!!)
What is content validity, predictive validity and construct validity
500
In which cases do you believe paper-pencil assessment should be the only type of assessment used to measure what a student knows and can do?
What is (your own answer)
500
When do you think the benefits of a performance assessment outweigh its impracticallity
What is (your answer)
500
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