Mr. Duncan practices the guideline of scoring essay items more than once. He scored Joey's test and came up with two different scores. What should Mr. Duncan do?
a. Keep the highest score for Joey's test
b. Find a test with similar grades and compare them to one another
c. Average the two scores for a final score
d. Grade the test a third time marking his inconsistencies
Ques. 2Which option below best represents an formative evaluation of student performance?
a. Final exam grade
b. Written comments on an essay
c. Percent correct score on a midterm exam
d. Correct and incorrect answers to a pop quiz
Ques. 3The earliest documented examinations in Western cultural history were conducted by the
a. Greeks
b. Neanderthals
c. Romans
d. Teutons
Ques. 4The primary reason that aptitude should not be the comparison basis for assigning grades for achievement is that
a. mixed constructs are being compared
b. higher gains can be given to students who start at low levels
c. such gains are potentially unreliable and invalid
d. all of the above
Ques. 5Grading systems that place all or most of the weight on a single final exam are subject to which problem?
a. A single score is always unreliable.
b. Only final exams represent summative evaluations effectively.
c. Other in-class and homework performance is devalued.
d. Other systems are always subjective.
Ques. 6A teacher deducts points from a math evaluation for talking out of turn and similar misbehaviors. What is the recommendation for such evaluation procedures?
a. recommended to help maintain classroom discipline.
b. not recommended because behavior and achievement are different
c. not recommended because it is ineffective in inhibiting such behaviors
d. recommended because behaviors achievement can be organized
Ques. 7Formative evaluation can best be used in summative evaluations with which kind of content?
a. Sequential content
b. Topical content
c. Mixed content
d. All of the above
Ques. 8Informal evaluations are susceptible to which problems?
a. Inconsistent feedback
b. Undocumented
c. Potentially embarrassing
d. All of the above
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