_______ tests are intended to assess the extent to which students have profited from schooling and other life experiences, compared with other students of the same age or grade.
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Ques. 2Achievement tests must reflect the __________ of the curriculum.
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Ques. 3What is the most important kind of validity for achievement tests?
A) Construct
B) Predictive criterion-related
C) Concurrent criterion-related
D) Content
Ques. 4It is apparent from research studies that
A) diagnostic achievement tests are better than multiple-skill achievement tests.
B) different curricula result in different performance on different achievement tests
C) achievement tests, in general, are inferior to teacher-made tests
D) we know little about achievement testing in the schools.
Ques. 5The major difference between the WIAT-II and WIAT-III is
A) the subtests are designed to measure the eight areas of learning disability defined in IDEA 2004
B) it is linked to the Wechsler series of intelligence tests
C) it has evidence for validity based on test content, internal structure and relations with other measures
D) it can now be group-administered
Ques. 6As part of content validity, the diagnostician might look not only at the specific skills assessed, but also at
A) the way in which they are assessed.
B) the date of the norms.
C) the extent to which the same score would be obtained on two different forms
D) whether the norms were based on students with similar acculturation
Ques. 7Of the following, the achievement test that has the best technical adequacy for making important educational decisions is
A) WRAT4.
B) DAB - 4.
C) PIAT-R/NU.
D) Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.
Ques. 8Of the following, the achievement test that provides the most limited sample of content area skills is
A) WRAT4.
B) DAB - 4.
C) PIAT-R/NU.
D) WIAT-III.
Ques. 9The most appropriate achievement tests to use for planning individual interventions are
A) group-administered achievement tests
B) diagnostic tests.
C) individually-administered achievement tests.
D) teacher-made tests.
Ques. 10Achievement test may NOT be appropriate for
A) screening decisions
B) eligibility decisions.
C) resource allocation decisions.
D) program evaluation decisions
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