Formative Foundations
To monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback to improve teaching and learning.
What is the goal of formative assessment?
The domain that deals with mental skills and knowledge.
What is the Cognitive Domain?
Students should only "perform" in the psychomotor domain.
What is a performance assessment myth?
This term refers to whether a test measures what it actually claims to measure.
What is Validity?
Ensuring students have access, validity, and respect.
What are ethics?
Name the three "where" questions of the formative cycle.
Where am I going? Where am I now? Where to next?
How we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, motivtations, and attitudes falls into this domain.
What is the Affective Domain?
Assessment methods that reflect what students will actually do at work.
What is authentic assessment?
This term refers to the consistency of a test's results over time.
What is Reliability?
When an instructor considers the alignment between assessments and objectives.
What is during assessment planning?
A type of formative assessment used before instruction to plan instruction and inform students about what they will be learning.
What is a Pre-Assessment?
Consistency between course objectives, teaching strategies, resources, instruction, and assessments.
What is internal alignment?
Using observation and jugment to assess a process or product (or both).
What is performance assessment?
In multiple-choice questions, this is an incorrect answer choice that is plausible enough to catch students with specific misconceptions.
What is a distractor?
Limiting distractions and announcements during an assessment is ethical when.
What is ethical during the administration of an assessment?
When the instructor provides information on student learning, specifying at least one thing the student did well and makes at least one suggestion for improvement.
What is feedback?
An instructor utilizes a checklist during a direct observation of a student performing sequential steps in a process happens in this domain.
What is the Psychomotor Domain?
When an instructor assesses the steps used to create an end product, as well as the end product, they are using what assessments.
What are process and product assessments?
A measurement tool often used for complex performances to provide students with an understanding of what proficient looks like and how to improve.
What is a rubric?
Instructors can be this when they observe students performing a task, but do not use a checklist or scoring guide.
What is having instructor/teacher bias?
When an instructor bases next steps on formative assessment information to help students move closer to achieving the learning objective.
What is instructional follow up?
Students are put in teams to complete a project. The instructor assesses each student's role on the team, whether they utilize the correct tools for the job, and their ability to do the work accurately and effectively. The instructor is assessing which domain(s).
When instructors prepare for a complex assessment by including complete directions, a time frame, the tasks, necessary materials, and the rubric for students.
What is the amount of structure in a performance task?
The OSHA 30 certification is an example of this type of assessment.
What is a summative assessment? OR What is an industry recognized credential?
Making sure assessments are fair and free from bias, providing feedback to assist in learning, and keeping grades and scores confidential.
What are educator responsibilities?