Which of the following procedures is least practical for a teacher to use as a way of improving the ...

Which of the following procedures is least practical for a teacher to use as a way of improving the quality of assessment tasks?
 
  a. Requesting a colleague in the same subject area to review the tasks.
  b. Trying out the tasks on a sample of current students before using them for evaluating the full group.
  c. Revising the tasks for use next year based on students' performance this year.

Ques. 2

Scoring rubrics define different levels of quality the teacher will use to evaluate the students' performance.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 3

What is the last step in the sequence when crafting a performance assessment?
 
  a. Writing the tasks to be performed
  b. Writing the rubrics for scoring
  c. Stating what you want to assess

Ques. 4

Which of the following types of tasks is the most unstructured?
 
  a. There are many possible processes leading to many equally justifiable solutions.
  b. There are many possible processes that lead to the same correct solution.
  c. There is one best process to use but many solutions can be arrived at.

Ques. 5

In naturally occurring performances students usually do not know that they are being assessed while the opposite is true with structured tasks.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 6

Which of the following steps is not one that should be followed in the creation of a multifocus affective inventory for use in classroom assessment?
 
  A. Select the affective variables to measure.
  B. Decide on how many items to use in measuring each variable.
  C. Create a series of exclusively positive statements related to each affective variable selected.
  D. Determine the number and phrasing of students' response options.

Ques. 7

A teacher must have a good management plan in order to use projects effectively.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 8

A rubric is a scoring guide to be employed in judging students' responses to constructed-response assessments such as a performance test. Which one of the following elements is the least necessary feature of a properly constructed rubric?
 
  A. An identification of the evaluative criteria to be used in appraising a student's response
  B. A designation of a performance standard required for skill-mastery
  C. Descriptions of different quality levels associated with each evaluative criterion
  D. An indication of whether a holistic or analytic scoring approach is to be used

Ques. 9

Consider the following set of factors that could be employed to judge the quality of the tasks for performance tests. Which one is not generally endorsed as a task-selection factor?
 
  A. Motivational impact on students
  B. Authenticity
  C. Teachability of the skill assessed by a task
  D. Feasibility of implementation

Ques. 10

Which of the following describe performance assessments?
 
  I. A mathematics teacher gave each student ten geometric shapes and required them to classify the shapes according to their characteristics and to label the categories.
 
  II. A social studies teacher asked students to write a short essay describing the importance of the Corn Belt to the US economy.
 
  III. A history teacher asked students to collect data on family life during the American Civil War and to prepare a summary of their findings.
 
  a. I and II
  b. I and III
  c. II and III
  d. I, II, and III