A classroom test item showed the following percentages of students selecting each multiple-choice response: A (2) B(92) C(3) D(3). B was the correct answer. Which analysis would be useful to describe this situation?
a. Distracter analysis
b. Item Difficulty analysis
c. Item Discrimination analysis
d. Item Bias analysis
Ques. 2Which of the following, from a classroom teacher's perspective, is probably the most serious drawback of portfolio assessment?
A. Parents' negative reactions to portfolio assessment
B. Students' negative reactions to portfolio assessment
C. Portfolio assessment's time-demands on teachers
D. The excessive attention given to portfolio assessment by educational policymakers
Ques. 3Which of the following is not a key step that a classroom teacher needs to take in implementing a portfolio assessment program?
A. Decide on the kinds of work samples to collect.
B. Decide which students should be involved in the portfolio assessment program.
C. Require students to evaluate continually their own portfolio products.
D. Schedule and conduct a meaningful number of portfolio conferences.
Ques. 4In an apprenticeship course for electricians, state regulation requires that students master the content of specific objectives such as calculating resistance for a given circuit. An item on the state test is constructed. Which Index would be best to evaluate the item?
a. Percent of test-takers getting the item correct
b. Percent of top 27 scorers on the test who get the item correct minus bottom 27 scorers on the test who get the item correct
c. Percent of test-takers who get the item correct after instruction minus percent of test-takers who get the item correct before instruction
d. Percent of test-takers who complete the course and get the item correct
Ques. 5Which of the following phrases is most commonly used to describe a portfolio focused on a student's self-evaluative and ongoing improvement in the quality of work products?
A. Working portfolio
B. Showcase portfolio
C. Formative portfolio
D. Summative portfolio
Ques. 6What type of correlation is used to calculate an item-total correlation when one variable is dichotomous and the other is intervally scaled?
a. Point-biserial
b. Spearman-Brown
c. Pearson-r
d. Correlation coefficient
Ques. 7Which statement best characterized this nation's current use of formative assessment?
A. Most teachers now employ the formative-assessment process in their classes.
B. Although research-supported, formative assessment is not widely used.
C. Only a five-strategies approach to formative assessment is often encountered.
D. A four-levels approach to formative assessment is used in the lower grades.
Ques. 8Many experienced assessors of student affect suggest the most appropriate way for classroom teachers to monitor their students' affect is through the use of:
A. Anonymously completed self-report inventories
B. Anonymously completed personalized essays
C. Teacher observations of affect-related student behaviors
D. Affectively oriented performance tests
Ques. 9The results of a job performance test found that women 20-25 years of age are much more likely to succeed in a specific position than women 30-35 years of age. What type of item index is being described?
a. Discrimination index
b. Item Index
c. Item Difficulty Index
d. Item characteristic index
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