As teachers plan classroom assessments, one of the decisions they will have to make is whether to use a paper-pencil or performance assessment. Keeping both practicality and validity in mind, teachers should probably use performance assessment:
a. Whenever they want to assess meaningful learning rather than rote memorization
b. Whenever they want to assess achievement of complex cognitive processes
c. Only when a paper-pencil assessment will have low content validity
d. As often as possible
Ques. 2Which one of the following is definitely not an example of authentic assessment?
a. Writing an opinion essay
b. Preparing a graph from data
c. Conducting an experiment
d. Taking a multiple-choice test
Ques. 3Which one of the following is the best example of authentic assessment of students' knowledge of 10 spelling words?
a. Giving a traditional spelling test in which the teacher says the word, presents it in a sentence, then says the word again; students write the words on a piece of paper
b. Asking them to participate in a spelling bee where they spell the words orally
c. Having them write a composition that includes all 10 spelling words
d. Giving students a multiple-choice test in which they choose the correct spelling of each word from a set of four possible spellings
Ques. 4Of the four RSVP characteristics, informal assessment strategies are strongest with respect to:
a. Reliability
b. Standardization
c. Validity
d. Practicality
Ques. 5On the first day of school, a student in Mr. Martinez's eighth-grade math class asks a question that shows she hasn't been paying attention for the past several minutes.
Consistent with recommendations regarding informal assessment presented in the textbook, Mr. Martinez should
a. Fill out an informal assessment form and send it to the principal
b. Call the student's parents to express his concern
c. Wait to see if the student shows a pattern of inattentiveness before drawing conclusions
d. Act as if the student had never asked the question
Ques. 6Which one of the following is the best example of authentic assessment?
a. Giving students written comments about the strengths and weaknesses of their test papers
b. Asking students to use what they've learned about electricity to fix a flashlight that doesn't work
c. Asking essay questions rather than multiple-choice questions
d. Giving a pretest to assess students' knowledge about invertebrates before the unit on invertebrates begins
Ques. 7Which 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. 8One 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. 9Three 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. 10Classroom assessment instruments can be valid only when they are also:
a. Performance-based
b. Practical
c. Authentic
d. Reliable
Ques. 11When teachers ask different questions of different students during a class discussion, they are conducting _____ assessment.
a. authentic
b. informal
c. standardized
d. invalid
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