Three of the following are accurate statements about how classroom assessments either directly or indirectly affect students' learning and achievement. Which statement is not accurate?
a. The nature of assessment tasks influence how students study classroom material.
b. Students are more motivated to study classroom material when they know their knowledge of the material will be assessed.
c. Studying for an assessment facilitates students' memory even for information that they do not specifically study.
d. Assessments can provide valuable feedback about what students know and what they need to work on.
Ques. 2Imagine you are a teacher who wants students to use effective information processing strategies as they study classroom subject matter.
You consider what educational psychologists have learned about the effects of classroom assessment tasks on learning, and you conclude that you should:
a. Not give paper-pencil tests at all
b. Ask many short questions rather than a few lengthy ones
c. Give assessment tasks that require meaningful understanding of the material
d. Assess students' rote knowledge of the material first, then ask higher-level questions about the material in a subsequent assessment
Ques. 3Which one of the following statements accurately describes the effect of classroom assessments on students' motivation?
a. They promote greater extrinsic motivation for studying classroom material.
b. They promote greater intrinsic motivation for studying classroom material.
c. Essay tests enhance students' motivation to study classroom material; multiple-choice tests undermine it.
d. Only performance assessments promote facilitating anxiety; paper-pencil assessments typically lead to debilitating anxiety.
Ques. 4A classroom teacher and school psychologist are conferring about Gregory, a boy who works very hard in class and yet shows consistently poor performance in any assignments that require reading or writing.
Judging from the textbook's discussion of assessments as a means of diagnosing learning and performance problems, what kinds of assessment results should the teacher and psychologist consider as they try to pinpoint the source of Gregory's difficulty?
a. They should focus on results from tests published by reputable test publishers, because these tests have specifically been developed to assess learning disabilities and other sources of learning difficulty.
b. They should focus on Gregory's performance on weekly classroom tests, which provide ongoing assessment of Gregory's progress.
c. They should conduct an in-depth analysis of Gregory's writing samples, which will be much more informative than test scores.
d. They should look for clues about Gregory's difficulties both in his performance on published tests and in his classroom tests and assignments.
Ques. 5Which one of the following illustrates the use of formative assessment?
a. A teacher gives students an unexpected (pop) quiz that will be worth extra points toward their final class grade.
b. A teacher gives students an unexpected quiz to find out what things they need more work on; it won't count toward final grades.
c. A university uses students' SAT scores to determine which students to accept; only the top 5 are admitted.
d. A university uses students' SAT scores to determine which students to accept; all students who score at or above a certain cutoff score are admitted.
Ques. 6Which one of the following examples illustrates informal assessment?
a. Asking students to submit their cooperative group projects to be evaluated
b. Observing how various students handle the ball as they play soccer
c. Giving a quiz that counts for only a small fraction of students' grades
d. Giving a five-item short-answer test
Ques. 7Which one of the following is the best example of summative assessment?
a. Ms. Vickery gives her social studies students a test at the end of a unit to determine how well they have learned the material in the unit.
b. Mr. Waters gives his government students a quiz at midterm to determine whether he needs to spend more time on certain aspects of the federal judicial system.
c. Ms. Yarborough gives her introductory German students weekly quizzes to make sure they're keeping up with the material.
d. Mr. Zeller gives his science students a pretest before beginning a unit on the water cycle to determine how much they already know about the topic.
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