Visitor - Teachers - Quiz 06: Assessment

The assessment designed to assist teachers in planning developmentally appropriate instruction can best be described as _________________.

The Cloze Procedure is a reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks. Which reading component might be assessed using this activity?

Randi is an 8th-grader who wants to improve her testing skills before going to high school. She decides that a good first step is to practice problem-solving strategies with a _____________.

“They risk turning projects and papers into exercises in simply following the rules and addressing the required elements of the activity”. This is an example of the limitations of a grading ________.

Miss Harvey is concerned about her students’ safety as they prepare equipment for gymnastics class. To ensure that students understand the proper procedure, best practice is to __________________________.

1. Randomly divide the class into small groups with three to five members.
2. Have students present to their group a short draft of their story to date.
3. Ask the group to give informal feedback to the author about their progress.

These steps are related to which type of assessment?

Mr. Carter is teaching a new unit on the history of nutrition science. To ensure that his assessment of student achievement is fair and accurate, he uses _____________________.

Jeremy performs well on converting fractions in Mrs. Clark’s fifth-grade class. However, he doesn’t perform well on the statewide end-of-semester test on this competency. Ms. Clark best course of action is to _______________________.

Mrs. Andrews wants to conduct a test before the holiday break to determine if students are progressing toward certain benchmarks. The test she is creating could best be described as _____________.

Mr. Ross often walks around his classroom, observing his students as they work in groups. This type of assessment of student progress can best be described as ____________.

Miss Larson used the state-approved textbook only as a resource for her 7th-grade science classes. She also constructs multiple-choice tests for each chapter to determine student achievement. This type of testing is an example of __________________ assessment.

The primary purpose of homework, independent practice using acquired knowledge and skills, is to promote students’ __________________.

Miss Larson used the state-approved textbook only as a resource for her 7th-grade science classes. She also constructs multiple-choice tests for each chapter to determine student achievement. This type of testing is an example of __________________ assessment.

A benefit of ___________________ is that it can engage students in the learning process and develop their capacity to reflect on and evaluate their own learning and skill development.

A component of Mr. Leavitt’s assessment plan for his 11th-grade English classes is peer assessment. Which of the following is not an example of this component of his plan?

Mr. Carter is charged with providing a summative assessment of his 6th-graders’ academic achievement. He can choose which of the following assessments?

Which of the following test item stems prompts the lowest level of critical thinking?

Valid information about student academic achievement is likely to come form which of these assessments?

The reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks is _____________.

Mrs. Fisher wants determine the strategies her students are using to make meaning of both individual words and texts as a whole. The teaching tool she might use for this purpose is called a ______________.

“They decrease ambiguity in grading practices, making it easier for a teacher to justify an assessment and a student to understand it.” This is an example of the benefits of using a grading _________.

Mark Reed is a first-year teacher at Mainland High School. At the first faculty meeting, teachers were told to be sure and document how they conduct formative assessments. He was confident that he would be in compliance since he had planned to _____________________.

Mr. Ross is teaching a new social science unit related to civic responsibility. To ensure that his assessment of student achievement is fair and accurate, he uses _______________________.

Which of the following assessments would NOT be described as “formative”?

Miss Barton’s students all scored at least 85% on the latest spelling test. The spelling words are aligned with state standards and benchmarks. Therefore, she can conclude that ______________________.

One type of selected-response test item, the ____________ question, provides a greater risk of guessing (50%). Therefore, it does the worst job of discriminating between those who know the material and those who do not.

Forced-choice tests such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true-false and matching are examples of __________ assessments most commonly used in schools.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross were pleased that their sixth-grader Jacque had earned a “grade-equivalent” score of 8.5 on the statewide mathematics test. The score can be interpreted by the parents that Jacque __________________________.

The assessment designed to assist teachers in planning developmentally appropriate instruction can best be described as _________________.

Jeremy performs well on converting fractions in Mrs. Barton’s fifth-grade class. However, he doesn’t perform well on the statewide end-of-semester test on this competency. Mrs. Barton’s best course of action is to _______________________.