It is appropriate to collapse achievement and effort into a single letter grade.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 2Sending letters home to the parent or guardian as a report card assumes that the adult is able to understand the vocabulary on the report.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Which of the following is the most useful score for reporting standardized test results to parents?
A. NCE score
B. percentile rank
C. raw score
D. T-score
Ques. 4When reporting standardized test results to parents, the explanation should be
A. complete and detailed.
B. kept separate from other assessment information.
C. presented in simple terms.
D. repeated for clarity.
Ques. 5Presenting students with several essay questions and permitting them to choose any two of them to respond to is an undesirable testing practice for which of the following reasons?
A. it encourages students to write more on each question
B. it is difficult for students to adequately prepare for the test
C. the basis of comparing students is undermined
D. students do not have an opportunity to demonstrate all that they have learned
Ques. 6When a letter grade (A, B, C, D, F) is used to report student progress, the grade should be based on which of the following?
A. achievement
B. effort
C. attitude
D. behavior
Ques. 7The distribution of letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) to be assigned in relative grading should be determined by which of the following?
A. school aides and parents
B. class averages
C. teacher and administrator agreement
D. the percentages in a normal distribution
Ques. 8Mastery learning would most likely require which of the following types of grading?
A. absolute
B. relative
C. curved
D. stratified
Ques. 9Relative grading involves comparing a student's achievement to which of the following?
A. a set of norms
B. the student's learning ability
C. the student's past performance
D. the achievement levels of the other students
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