What are three legitimate uses of published test information? What are three inappropriate uses?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Discuss some things that a teacher should ensure when administering a published test, so as not to invalidate the results or interpretability?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Using published test results to retain teachers or give merit raises is a fair and equitable method.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 4Publishers attempt to reduce the influence of test-taking skills by doing which of the following?
A. not providing alternative test forms
B. providing practice tests
C. using multiple-choice items
D. using special scoring formulas
Ques. 5Standardized achievement tests are inadequate for evaluating teaching effectiveness because they typically have
A. inadequate norms.
B. inappropriate item difficulty.
C. low reliability.
D. low relevance to local objectives.
Ques. 6Published achievement tests are probably most useful to classroom teachers for which of the following reasons?
A. diagnosing strengths and weaknesses
B. evaluating teaching
C. grading students
D. reporting to parents
Ques. 7Measuring educational progress over several grade levels with published tests is most feasible when measuring which of the following?
A. basic skills
B. critical thinking skills
C. science
D. social studies
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