Which one of the following paper-pencil assessments is most likely to have a reliability problem ...

Which one of the following paper-pencil assessments is most likely to have a reliability problem when the teacher scores students' responses?
 
  a. Ms. Gibbons asks students to describe the first Thanksgiving in one or two pages.
  b. Mr. Hammond gives 50 truefalse questions about the geography of Russia.
  c. Ms. Sonnenschein administers a 30-item multiple-choice test about invertebrates.
  d. Mr. Strauch gives a 15-word spelling test.

Ques. 2

One problem with informal assessments of student achievement is that they
 
  a. Can be influenced by teachers' prior expectations
  b. Can be used only by teachers with many years of teaching experience
  c. Are useful only in evaluating verbal behaviors
  d. Are useful only in evaluating nonverbal behaviors

Ques. 3

Three of the following are accurate statements regarding the advantages of informal assessment. Which statement is not necessarily accurate?
 
  a. It is sometimes the only way teachers can assess students' motivation and social skills.
  b. It can be easily adjusted as a lesson unfolds.
  c. It is usually more valid than formal assessment.
  d. It provides ongoing information about the effectiveness of a lesson.

Ques. 4

Classroom assessment instruments can be valid only when they are also:
 
  a. Performance-based
  b. Practical
  c. Authentic
  d. Reliable

Ques. 5

When teachers ask different questions of different students during a class discussion, they are conducting _____ assessment.
 
  a. authentic
  b. informal
  c. standardized
  d. invalid

Ques. 6

The school district of Wattville, Delaware, is considering using the Colorado Achievement Test (CAT) this year. This test must be administered by a school psychologist to each student individually,
 
  with each student's testing time being about two hours. Without knowing anything else about the CAT, the Wattville school district should probably question the test's:
   a. Practicality
   b. Content validity
   c. Standardization
   d. Reliability

Ques. 7

Mr. Hatch wants to assess what his students have learned in a recent unit on four-sided figures. He realizes that the unit included four figuressquares, rectangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids.
 
  He also knows that he wants students to do three things for each of these figures: (1) recognize examples, (2) calculate the perimeter, and (3) calculate the area. In essence, Mr. Hatch is:
   a. Taking initial steps in constructing a table of specifications
   b. Maximizing the likelihood that his assessment instrument will have predictive validity
   c. Increasing the extent to which his assessment instrument is standardized
   d. Converting an informal assessment into a more formal one