A showcase portfolio shows samples of a student's
a. best work
b. worst work
c. woodworking project
d. written reports
Ques. 2Which of the two methods of scoring tabular items provides a more reliable result?
a. Scoring each row as either completely correct or incorrect.
b. Scoring each cell according to the correctness of the elements in it.
c. The two methods provide equally reliable results.
Ques. 3A collection of student work selected to show student learning progress is called a
a. developmental portfolio
b. showcase portfolio
c. formative assessment
d. work sample
Ques. 4What is the main way that the tabular item format is different from a matching exercise?
a. The tabular item set uses more than one homogeneous set of responses.
b. The tabular item set assesses ability to analyze relationships between concepts or events.
c. The tabular item set assesses recall of information.
Ques. 5To assess the ability to write about one's comprehension of a given statement, which variety of the statement-and-comment items should the teacher use?
a. Multiple-choice version
b. Short-answer version
c. Both a. and b.
Ques. 6The statement-and-comment format can be used to assess the students' comprehension of
a. an entire poem and its theme.
b. selected lyrics of a poem.
c. both a. and b. .
Ques. 7Research on students' misconceptions in the sciences has suggested all of the following
except:
a. Students' misconceptions are firmly embedded in their LTM.
b. Students hold nave theories about various scientific concepts.
c. Students' misconceptions are often resistant to change.
d. Students readily accommodate to information that contradicts their nave theories.
Ques. 8In writing best answer items, it is inappropriate to include none of the above as one of the options.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 9Distractors for best answer items of an objectively scored format should be obtained from
a. incomplete answers students give to similar questions on short answer items.
b. mistakes students make when answering questions during the instructional period.
c. Both a. and b. .
Ques. 10A student who uses random guessing on a test comprised only of true-false items has a good chance of getting a good score.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 11Which of the following is not true of advance organizers?
a. They can promote priming or relevant information.
b. They are susceptible to proactive interference.
c. They can encourage schema activation.
d. They are a way to tell them what you're going to tell them.
Ques. 12What is (are) the flaw(s) in the following item? ___________ is an example of a mammal.
a. Irrelevant clue to the answer
b. Misplacement of blank
c. Use of textbook statement
d. All of the above
Ques. 13You will improve the reliability of your students' fill-in-the-blank test scores if you use an answer key to score their responses.
a. True
b. False
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