What are the two parts of a performance assessment?
Task and rubric
100
A student’s performance must be judged using more than one ____________________.
Evaluative Criterion
100
A scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of a student's responses to performance tests, a student's portfolios, or any kind of student generated response.
Rubric
100
What is a portfolio?
A systematic collection of one’s work
100
It’s better to include a few kinds of inference-illuminating work samples than to include work samples that do not contribute to your inferences about students’ knowledge or skills.
True
200
The purpose of task based assessments is to
Assess complex and transferable learning assessments
200
If you grade a student’s response by considering all of the rubric’s evaluative criteria as an algorithm, then you are using ________________ scoring.
Holistic Scoring
200
What is a guide for scoring whose evaluative criteria are applicable for judging a student's responses to any suitable skill-measuring task.
Skill-focused rubric
200
A _____________ portfolio is better for self-evaluation.
Working
200
Portfolio assessment’s weakness is that it can be tailored to the individual student’s needs, interests, and abilities.
False
300
What are the two issues that are at the heart of performance assessments?
Selecting appropriate tasks and judging the adequacy of students’ responses.
300
If you award points to the response on a criterion-by-criterion basis, then you are using ________________ scoring.
Analytic scoring
300
A scoring guide whose evaluative criteria are described in excessively general dysfunctional terms.
Hypergeneral Rubric
300
What type of portfolio would work best for younger elementary school children?
Showcase portfolio (they aren’t old enough to select works to put in a working portfolio)
300
Two of the greatest payoffs of portfolio assessment are self-evaluation and personal ownership.
True
400
What is the generalizability dilemma as it pertains to performance assessments?
For performance assessments students typically respond to fewer tasks, so it is difficult to determine how well they have mastered the skill being assessed.
400
What is a negative aspect of a teacher using a Hypergeneral rubric?
It does not influence instruction
Results do not give specific feedback to students.
400
If a rubric is created such that its evaluative criteria can only be used for a performance assessment, then it is called a __________ _______________ ___________.
Task specific rubric
400
What is an important feature of portfolios?
They must be updated as a person’s achievement skills grow.
400
The author of our book sets out five rubric rules that we are encouraged to follow.
True
500
What does G.R.A.S.P.S. stand for?
Goal, Role, Audience, Situation, Product, and Standard.
500
List four factors that you might consider when evaluating a performance task (there are seven of them listed in the textbook).
Of the three types of rubric, Task-Specific, Hypergeneral, and Skill-Focused, which type does the author support?
Skill-Focused Rubric
500
______________ engages students in assessing their progress and/or accomplishments and establishing ongoing learning goals while ___________ is mechanically scored or scored by teachers who have little input.
Portfolio assessment; standardized testing
500
Time consuming and difficulty scoring are two cons to standardized testing.