What is the most important reason for rewriting introductory materials for items assessing the ...

What is the most important reason for rewriting introductory materials for items assessing the ability to use reference materials?
 
  a. To obtain the exact length of material for the available space.
  b. To ensure that the material is suitable for the purpose it is to be used.
  c. To make the material easier for the students.

Ques. 2

Which of the following is not an element typically embodied in performance tests?
 
  A. Judgmental appraisal of students' responses
  B. Prespecified evaluative criteria for judging students' responses
  C. Multiple evaluative criteria
  D. A direct link to a preexisting content standard

Ques. 3

Which of the following indices is most commonly used to represent an item's difficulty?
 
  A. p value
  B. Correlation coefficient
  C. Discrimination index
  D. Distractor efficiency

Ques. 4

A major problem with using performance assessment methods is that students do not perform consistently from one task to another.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 5

A major problem with assessing students using portfolios is that two teachers often assign quite different grades to the same student's portfolio.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 6

If classroom teachers set out to improve their own tests using judgmental approaches, which of the following review criteria is not a factor teachers ought to consider?
 
  A. Adherence to item-specific guidelines and general item-writing rules
  B. Absence of any significant gaps in a test's content coverage
  C. Each item's likely contribution to a valid score-based inference about a student's status
  D. The likelihood that, if a test is seen by parents, those parents will recognize the suitability of an item's content coverage

Ques. 7

One major disadvantage of performance assessment procedures is that they are more time-consuming for the teacher and the student.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 8

Which of the following is the most troublesome problem facing those educators who wish to rely heavily on the use of performance tests?
 
  A. Generating tasks for performance tests
  B. Scoring students' responses to a performance test's task(s)
  C. Making valid inferences about students' generalized skill-mastery
  D. Persuading students to respond seriously to a performance test's task(s)

Ques. 9

An advantage of performance assessment over the traditional objective formats is that performance assessment
 
  a. requires students to apply their knowledge and skills in doing things.
  b. is more objective than the traditional formats.
  c. is more related to abstract knowledge than traditional formats.

Ques. 10

Which of the following is not an important rule to be followed in the classroom assessment of student affect?
 
  A. Make all inferences about students' affective status so the inferences are group-focused rather than individual-focused.
  B. If any self-report inventories are used, students' responses must be truly anonymous.
  C. Any affective variable being measured must be genuinely noncontroversial.
  D. To monitor students' ever-changing attitudes and interests, assess affect on at least a bi-weekly basis.

Ques. 11

The main reason for using group projects to assess students is to determine their ability to work together.
 
  a. True
  b. False

Ques. 12

Which of the following is not a key step that a classroom teacher needs to take in getting underway with 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. 13

When deciding whether to use performance assessments the first thing you must consider is how many times you want to assess students during the marking period.
 
  a. True
  b. False