Assessment
Alternative/Traditional Assessments
Evaluation
Grading
Miscellaneous
100
Name the three types of assessment.
What is Diagnostic, Formative, and Summative.
100
Name 3 things you would put in a portfolio.
What is assignments, written comments and responses by students, summary statements, questions from the teacher to the student, pasted in items.
100
What is evaluation?
Making a judgement about the adequacy or the quality of something.
100
What is a grade?
A grade is how an evaluation is communicated to other interested parties.
100
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Who is President Lincoln.
200
What is Summative assessment?
Determines whether goals are achieved.
200
What is the definition of a performance task?
What is a task where students apply and demonstrate the skills and knowledge consistent with the learning objectives.
200
Evaluation compares the what of an individual to the criteria that help makes sense out of the data.
What is performance.
200
Name the five different grading methods.
Letter grades, grades based on percentages, pass/fail, descriptive grading system, and narrative evaluations.
200
What is the most populated country in the world?
China
300
What is Diagnostic assessment?
Provides information before learning.
300
Name the four alternative assessment measuring tools.
What is rating scales, rubrics, checklists, attitude inventories.
300
Name the two types of evaluation.
What are norm-referenced and criterion-referenced.
300
What is a disadvantage of letter grades?
They don't really explain how or where one can improve.
300
What are the full names of the authors of out textbook?
Tom Savage and David Armstrong
400
What is formative assessment?
Provides information during learning.
400
What are the advantages of traditional assessments?
Easy to score and measures a wide selection on content.
400
In norm-referenced, performance of an individual is compared to what?
What is a reference group.
400
Name an assessment that is pass/fail.
Drivers test, SAT's, etc.
400
What number President was Ben Franklin.
None, he was never President.
500
What is the definition of assessment?
What is What is a broad term referring to everything that is done to gather, analyze, and use information about student learning in order to make intelligent decisions.
500
What are the disadvantages of traditional assessment?
What is takes a lot of time to construct good, alternative answers and doesn't measure important or complex objectives.
500
In criterion-referenced, performance of an individual is measured against what?
What is a standard established as an indicator of acceptable performance.
500
With what grading method is determining how many points an assignment is worth an issue?
Grades based on percentages.
500
What year did the Titanic sink?
1912