A collection of student work selected to show student learning progress is called a
a. developmental portfolio
b. showcase portfolio
c. formative assessment
d. work sample
Ques. 2What is the main way that the tabular item format is different from a matching exercise?
a. The tabular item set uses more than one homogeneous set of responses.
b. The tabular item set assesses ability to analyze relationships between concepts or events.
c. The tabular item set assesses recall of information.
Ques. 3To assess the ability to write about one's comprehension of a given statement, which variety of the statement-and-comment items should the teacher use?
a. Multiple-choice version
b. Short-answer version
c. Both a. and b.
Ques. 4The statement-and-comment format can be used to assess the students' comprehension of
a. an entire poem and its theme.
b. selected lyrics of a poem.
c. both a. and b. .
Ques. 5Research on students' misconceptions in the sciences has suggested all of the following
except:
a. Students' misconceptions are firmly embedded in their LTM.
b. Students hold nave theories about various scientific concepts.
c. Students' misconceptions are often resistant to change.
d. Students readily accommodate to information that contradicts their nave theories.
Ques. 6In writing best answer items, it is inappropriate to include none of the above as one of the options.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 7Distractors for best answer items of an objectively scored format should be obtained from
a. incomplete answers students give to similar questions on short answer items.
b. mistakes students make when answering questions during the instructional period.
c. Both a. and b. .
Ques. 8A student who uses random guessing on a test comprised only of true-false items has a good chance of getting a good score.
a. True
b. False