This type of computer testing reduces the number of items given to each test taker by changing the questions given depending on the student's answers.
What is adaptive testing?
100
According to the class text the number of items in matching exercises should generally be in this range.
What is 4-7 items but no more than 10?
100
Essay questions are especially useful at this knowledge level.
What is complex knowledge?
100
This is any incorrect alternative in a multiple choice item.
What is a distracter?
100
Decision-making is the most important element in the definition of this key term.
What is assesment?
200
Teachers use this type of assessment during instruction to help monitor learning progress.
What is formative assessment?
200
This type of simple form most effectively measures the abliity to classify homogenous material.
What is the matching exercise?
200
Unlike simple form and multiple choice tests, which may contain many questions, only a few questions can be included on an essay test, and this is one of the limitations of essay tests.
What is limited sampling?
200
This is the question part of a multiple choice item, and it should be answerable without the alternatives.
What is the stem?
200
Of the three key terms: (testing, assessment, and measurement), this is the broadest term.
What is assessment?
300
This type of assessment usually occurs at the end of the instructional process to certify accomplishment and assign final grades.
What is summative assessment?
300
The chapter on simple forms in the textbook describes these three types of simple forms.
What are matching, true-false, and short answer items?
300
This most commonly cited limitation of essay questions has to do with scoring, especially scoring extended response questions.
What is the difficulty of reliable scoring?
300
The weakness in this multiple choice stem is a common shortcoming: "Penicillin is?"
What is incomplete because it is not answerable without the alternatives?
300
Of the three key terms (testing, measurement, and assessment), this is the narrowest, most specific term.
What is testing?
400
This effect (the Lake ______ effect) helps to explain reports in the 1980s from all states and most districts that their students were scoring above average on high-stakes tests.
What is the Lake Wobegon effect?
400
This type of simple form is often referred to as a supply type item, a completion item, or a fill-in-the blank item.
What is the short answer item?
400
Restricted and extended response questions are the two types of essay questions. One of these types is best for assessing the most complex learning outcomes.
What are extended response items?
400
The class text makes this recommendation about use of alternatives such as "all of the above" and "none of the above."
What is use sparingly because these alternatives (possible answers) are fraught with difficulties?
400
This key term is defined as a standard set of questions usually given once to produce a score and often producing anxiety.
What is testing?
500
This is another name for a table of specifications.
What is a test blueprint?
500
With this type of simple form item the student has a 50% chance of guessing the correct answer.
What are true-false questions?
500
Essay questions may be scored with holistic or analytic rubrics. One of these rubrics can usually be constructed rapidly and produces overall scores rather than detailed scores useful in remediation.
What is an analytic rubric?
500
The following multiple choice item stem contains a major fault: "Which one of the following Florida cities is not located north of Orlando?"
What is a negatively stated stem?
500
This key term is defined as a numerical description of the degree to which a student possesses a particular characteristic, and it includes tests along with other ways to quantify student performance.