What determines whether an assessment is formative or summative?
(a) How the information from it is used
(b) What learning targets it is based on
(c) How it is constructed
Question 2...Mrs. Arlette spends more of her energy on formative assessment for her lowest achieving students (because, she says, they need all the help they can get) and the higher achieving students (because they have great potential). She doesn't spend that same energy on the average students, for the same reasons. Which of the following formative assessment principles has she violated?
(a) Student involvement
(b) Motivational equity
(c) Descriptive feedback
Question 3...With regard to Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives, the statement, The student will be able to use the Pythagorean theorem to solve right triangle problems, is an example of
(a) application.
(b) analysis.
(c) comprehension.
Question 4...A teacher wrote this specific learning target: The teacher will show a movie based on the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows. Critique this target.
(a) It doesn't specify the content students are to learn.
(b) It doesn't specify a student performance.
(c) It isn't written in terms of student outcomes.
(d) All of the above are problems with this learning target.
(e) (b) and (c) are the major problems with this learning target.
Question 5...Learning objectives that are centered on students, content, and performance are most useful for
(a) assessment.
(b) instruction.
(c) Both of the above
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