Three of the following strategies are likely to increase the reliability of a classroom assessment ...

Three of the following strategies are likely to increase the reliability of a classroom assessment instrument. Which one is not likely to do so?
 
  a. Give the same instructions to everyone about how to complete the assessment tasks.
  b. Decide on the specific criteria you will use to evaluate students' responses to each task.
  c. Make sure that students know exactly what they are being asked to do.
  d. Incorporate knowledge of students' previous achievement levels into judgments about their current performance.

Ques. 2

If we say that a particular classroom assessment instrument is highly reliable, we mean that it:
 
  a. Accurately assesses whether students have attained our instructional objectives
  b. Yields scores that form a bell curve
  c. Predicts future success in school
  d. Gives us similar results on different occasions

Ques. 3

The reliability of an assessment instrument tells us:
 
  a. How norms for the instrument were obtained
  b. Whether the instrument predicts a future behavior
  c. Whether the instrument assesses something consistently
  d. Whether the instrument actually measures what it is intended to measure

Ques. 4

In which one of the following situations do we definitely have a problem with the reliability of a classroom assessment?
 
  a. Ms. Arthur assesses her students' overall physical fitness on Monday; she assesses it again the following Monday. Students who perform well one week are not the same ones who perform well the following week.
  b. Ms. Benavidez uses a test of mechanical aptitude to determine which students are ready for her physics class. She finds out later that the students who scored lowest on the mechanical aptitude test are some of the best students in physics.
  c. Ms. Candelaria tells students to study Chapter 14 but mistakenly gives them a test over Chapter 15 instead.
  d. For her class of 35 students, Ms. D'Amato devises a test that must be given to students one at a time and requires two hours for each student.

Ques. 5

Which one of the following illustrates use of a rubric in a classroom assessment?
 
  a. Responses to a 10-point essay in a history class are given 5 points for describing historical events accurately, 4 points for explaining how the events are interrelated, and 1 point for using complete sentences throughout the essay.
  b. In a swimming test, students are asked to swim one lap each of the breaststroke, backstroke, and crawl.
  c. A science test has 30 multiple questions, 10 alternative-response questions, 3 short-answer questions, and one essay.
  d. A math assignment presents a complex problem with several parts and asks students to break it down into at least five simpler problems that they can solve one at a time.

Ques. 6

Which one of the following teaching strategies is most consistent with the textbook's discussion of promoting self-regulation through classroom assessment practices?
 
  a. At the beginning of a cooperative group problem-solving activity, Mr. Hays tells the students in each group that they should submit one set of problem solutions that represents the consensus of all group members.
  b. Mr. Weller has his students exchange and grade one another's homework assignments.
  c. Mr. Rushing solicits students' ideas about criteria to use in evaluating the sculptures they will be creating in art class.
  d. Mr. Bickling gives his students the answer key for a multiple-choice quiz he has just given and asks them to score their own responses.

Ques. 7

. Technology-based formative assessment tools have several advantages. Which of the following is not an advantage? Technology-based formative assessment tools can:
 
  a. keep track of students' performance over time.
  b. help students assess their work.
  c. generate reports and graphs
  d. help teachers ensure content validity

Ques. 8

Which one of the following is the best example of dynamic assessment?
 
  a. Mr. Thiessen asks Macy to show him how to use a microscope properly.
  b. Ms. Ursinas asks her students to work in groups of three to write a paper describing the effects of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  c. Ms. Vincenti gives her students 20 multiple-choice questions; she then gives 20 additional, more difficult questions to students who've done very well on the first set, as a way of assessing the upper limits of their knowledge.
  d. Mr. Warren observes and records how Erica's logical thinking changes over time as she experiments with a pendulum.

Ques. 9

Which one of the following illustrates how classroom assessments can affect students' epistemic beliefs?
 
  a. Susan thinks that art appreciation means memorizing the names of paintings and the artists who painted them because every test in her art appreciation class asks her to label a series of paintings and identify the painter of each one.
  b. Because Geraldine consistently receives low marks on assignments in her history class, she is convinced that her teacher doesn't like her.
  c. Duncan mistakenly believes that how well he does on his weekly spelling tests will be the determining factor affecting whether he is promoted to fourth grade.
  d. Martin has heard that Mr. Stewart's tests are really picky, so he is very anxious when he prepares for his first test in Mr. Stewart's class.

Ques. 10

On a weekly quiz, Mr. Harris asks students in his auto mechanics class to figure out what is probably wrong with a car when it has a certain set of symptoms.
 
  His students have never considered this particular combination of symptoms before, but they know everything they need to know in order to determine what must be wrong. Mr. Harris's test question illustrates the value of a classroom assessment as:
   a. The primary means of promoting intrinsic motivation
   b. A way of giving concrete feedback to students
   c. A way of minimizing the negative impact of high-stakes tests
   d. A learning experience in and of itself

Ques. 11

. By encouraging students to evaluate their own performance during assessment activities, a teacher is most likely to:
 
  a. Facilitate meaningful learning
  b. Promote self-regulation
  c. Increase the reliability of classroom assessment instruments
  d. Increase the validity of classroom assessment instruments

Ques. 12

Three of the following statements are ways that teachers can communicate to students that assessments can help them learn. Which statement is not necessarily consistent with this message?
 
  a. Allow students to use feedback to revise their work.
  b. Provide frequent assessments.
  c. Emphasize the importance of grades for students' future success.
  d. Explain the purpose of the instructional objectives.