Evidence on the internal structure of an assessment instrument concerns how the tasks on the instrument are
a. structured from low to high difficulty levels.
b. interrelated in measuring the same construct.
c. organized into sections according to format of task.
Ques. 2When a 3-year-old says, I seed the deerzes at the zoo her errors actually reveal her
growing knowledge of
a. phonology
b. pragmatics
c. syntax
d. morphology
Ques. 3A table of specifications is a table showing the
a. specific tasks or items in a test.
b. difficulty level of each task or item.
c. the content areas and skills covered in a test.
Ques. 4The argument-based approach to validation implies that rhetoric is just as important as evidence in demonstrating the validity of interpretations and uses of assessment results.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 5Test scores that are highly reliable are necessarily valid.
a. True
b. False
Ques. 6The expertise reversal effect refers to the finding that
a. experts can be blinded by their own excessive knowledge.
b. high levels of expertise can interfere with learning new information.
c. experts often are unable to explain to others what they know.
d. instructional methods effective for novices may not work for experts.
Ques. 7The designs of the Jasper Woodbury adventures and CSILE draw most heavily on
a. the concept of automaticity
b. the concept of encoding specificity
c. a parallel distributed processing model
d. social cognitive theory
Ques. 8How can a teacher attain a high level of consistency in scoring his/her assessment tasks?
a. Make the tasks relatively easy for students
b. Prepare and use scoring rubrics
c. Score the tasks using personal knowledge of each student's past performance
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