Evaluating a student's final level of overall performance on a portfolio requires
a. an analytic scoring rubric
b. anecdotal records
c. a holistic scoring rubric
d. a process assessment
Ques. 2Sharing with students the criteria and standards used to assess portfolio entries at the beginning of the instruction helps to
a. diagnose potential learning disabilities
b. improve the reliability of assessment results
c. reduce the likelihood of cheating
d. guide the preparation of portfolio entries
Ques. 3The best way to evaluate a student's writing skill is to mark grammar and punctuation (conventions) and penmanship (presentation) on the students' first drafts.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 4As most educators currently use the expression, content standard, to which of the following is that phrase most equivalent?
A. The level of proficiency sought for students
B. A performance standard
C. Content-related evidence of validity
D. A curricular aim
Ques. 5Which of the following is a recommended item-writing rule for the construction of binary-choice items?
A. Include no more than two concepts in any one statement.
B. Employ a roughly equal number of statements representing the two categories being tested.
C. If one category being assessed requires longer statements than the other category, be sure that the disparity in statement-length is constant.
D. Employ relatively few double-negative statements and, if you do, be sure to emphasize with italics or bold-face type that a negative is involved.
Ques. 6Who received huge federal support to measure the Common Core curricular aims?
A. SBAC and PARCC
B. CCSSO and NGA
C. NAEP and NAGB
D. NEA and AFT
Ques. 7Which of the following assertions is most accurate?
A. Criterion-referenced score-based inferences are relative interpretations.
B. Norm-referenced score-based inferences are absolute interpretations.
C. Norm-referenced score-based inferences and criterion-referenced score-based inferences are not essentially interchangeable.
D. Norm-referenced score-based inferences are typically more useful to classroom teachers than criterion-referenced score-based inferences.
Ques. 8Which of the following approaches to bias-elimination is it most reasonable to expect classroom teachers to use?
A. Empirical approaches
B. Judgmental approaches
C. Both empirical and judgmental approaches are equally reasonable for classroom teachers to use.
D. Neither empirical nor judgmental approaches are reasonable for classroom teachers to use.
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