The process used to measure the student’s abilities and changes in knowledge, skills, and attitudes during and after participation in courses and programs.
What is assessment? (Billings & Halstead, 2010)
100
The act of assigning a letter or numerical score to represent achievement or performance.
What is measurement? (McDonald, 2014; Oermann & Gaberson, 2014)
100
The selection of measurement instruments depends on this.
What is the outcome to be measured? (McDonald, 2014)
100
These include criterion-referenced and norm-referenced. (McDonald, 2014)
What are types of evaluation? (McDonald, 2014)
100
This type of evaluation occurs during the learning process, assesses a student’s progress and directs future learning.
What is formative evaluation? (McDonald, 2014)
200
True or False?
Assessments are more focused on the individual’s performance based on his or her individual ability and achievement.
What is true? (Mastrian et al., 2011)
200
This provides the information to guide decision-making.
What is measurement? (McDonald, 2014)
200
This is the first step for developing effective measurement instruments.
What is identifying the instructional objectives and learning outcomes? (McDonald, 2014)
200
Nursing classroom examinations can be considered this type of test because it is the basis for life-altering decisions.
What is high stakes? (McDonald, 2014)
200
This type of evaluation occurs at the end of instruction, summarizes achievement and assesses objective assessment.
What is summative evaluation? (McDonald, 2014)
300
This type of assessment method has the easiest and quickest items to grade.
What is an objective test? (Mastrian et al., 2011)
300
This tool created by Dr. Young to measure performance for this assignment.
What is a rubric?
300
These are measurement instruments that are formal events where individuals are asked to demonstrate their achievement of some knowledge or skill in a specific domain?
What are tests? (McDonald, 2014)
300
"The student's performance equaled or exceeded 82% of the students in the group" is an example of this type of evaluation.
What is norm-referenced? (McDonald , 2014)
300
This type of evaluation may contribute to student anxiety because an instructor assigns a final grade based on a student’s performance.
What is summative evaluation? (Surgenor, 2010)
400
An assessment instrument that teachers utilize to assess a student performance based on her/his ability to speak to an audience in a professional manner.
Answer: What is oral presentation instrument? (ACU, 2007)
400
You must have this in order to have trustworthy measurement.
What is objectivity? (McDonald, 2014)
400
Educators use these to help as a guide that will expedite the process of test development and provide the structure for obtaining valid and reliable test results. (Hint: This is the second step for developing an effective measurement instrument)
What are blueprints? (McDonald, 2014)
400
"The student demonstrated mastery by correctly identifying 90% of the terms" is an example of this type of evaluation.
What is criterion-referenced? ( McDonald, 2014)
400
You are a driver’s ed instructor and are not permitted to give feedback to your students during their road test. Your student, Sally, meets all criteria for a passing score so this type of evaluation is appropriate after her test.
What is summative evaluation?
500
After creating the learning objectives, the teacher should immediately start planning for assessment measures.
What is making assessment items? (Mastrian et al., 2011)
500
This is used to verify that a test represents the material covered or the course itself.
What is a blueprint? (McDonald, 2014)
500
This type of exam can be administered by educators and contributes to the assessment of objectives that require higher-level cognitive ability and also will test students’ critical thinking skills?
What are multiple choice exams? (McDonald, 2014)
500
A value judgment that attaches meaning to the data obtained by measurement and gathered through assessment.
What is evaluation?
(McDonald, 2014)
500
Your next student, Robbie, doesn’t fare as well. He is very distracted and, just as a dog darts in front of the car, you yell “STOP”! You just demonstrated this type of evaluation.