Why should you not include negatively discriminating items on a classroom test?
a. They are biased.
b. They are too easy.
c. They leave a bad impression on students.
d. They are not informative.
e. They order students in the opposite way from the other items.
Ques. 2Which type of project is most likely to lead to student plagiarism opportunities?
a. Reporting on the history, culture, geography, and political system of a country.
b. Researching the opinions of students in the school on whether soda machines should be eliminated.
c. Making a crash-proof container to protect a raw egg when it is dropped from 20 feet.
d. Constructing the views of Republicans and Democrats on the issue of tax-rebates by analyzing statements made in the newspapers by party members.
Ques. 3Which strategy will help you mentor students to help overcome operational problems in completing their projects?
a. Clarifying the outcomes you expect.
b. Clarifying the project evaluation standards by giving students copies of the scoring rubrics.
c. Setting deadlines for completing each phase of the project.
d. Requiring students to make frequent progress reports.
Ques. 4Which of the following is necessary for a classroom project to be useful for assessment purposes?
a. Linking the project to specific learning objectives in the curriculum.
b. Evaluating students only on the achievement dimensions defined as outcomes of the project.
c. Defining the weight of each achievement dimension used in calculating the grade.
d. All of the above are necessary.
e. Only a. and b. are necessary.
Ques. 5What is the most appropriate way to score a performance assessment that is used to identify students' problems which need remediation?
a. Analytic scoring
b. Annotated holistic scoring
c. Holistic scoring
Ques. 6Where in an item analysis should you look for suggestions that the class guessed blindly on a particular item?
a. The lower group's pattern of responses to the options.
b. The middle group's pattern of responses to the options.
c. The upper group's pattern of responses to the options.
d. The total group's pattern of responses to the options.
Ques. 7Relevant rubrics for scoring performance assessment tasks cannot be crafted until one specifies all the quality dimensions to be assessed.
a. True
b. False