. In the United States the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates three of the following. Which one does it not mandate?
a. States must determine knowledge and skills that students should reasonably acquire at various grade levels.
b. By high school, students must demonstrate knowledge of the structure and general policies of the U.S. government.
c. States must regularly assess students' academic progress during the upper elementary and middle school grades.
d. Schools that do not demonstrate progress are subject to certain sanctions (e.g., administrative restructuring, dismissal of faculty members).
Ques. 2The mathematics teachers at a large high school want to use a test that will help them select students who could benefit from an accelerated math class that will include advanced algebra and calculus.
Which kind of test is probably most suitable for this purpose?
a. A mathematics aptitude test
b. A school readiness test
c. A general intelligence test
d. A standardized test that assesses students' automaticity for basic arithmetic facts
Ques. 3Which one of the following is most likely to be what educators refer to as a standardized test?
a. Ms. Argon's students are taking a test asking them to find the diameter, circumference, and area of a circle with a radius of 5 centimeters; Ms. Argon wants to find out if her students know this material well enough to proceed on to spheres.
b. Mr. Basili's students are taking a multiple-choice test, developed by a testing company, that assesses students' knowledge of language, mathematics, and logic; scores on the test have been shown to predict college success with some degree of accuracy.
c. Mr. Conway's fifth graders are taking a test of mathematical word problems requiring addition and subtraction. Mr. Conway has instructed his students to work as quickly as they can so he can get an idea of whether they have developed automaticity in their ability to solve such problems.
d. Mr. Delano's eighth graders are taking an objective test over what they have learned in their geography unit on Asia. Students are marking their answers on a bubble sheet with a number two pencil so that Mr. Delano can have the school district's computer center score the tests for him.
Ques. 4Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to the advantages of portfolios. Which statement is false?
a. Portfolios are useful for promoting self-evaluation skills.
b. Portfolios can reflect the complex nature of students' achievement.
c. Portfolios provide a means through which instruction and assessment can be easily integrated.
d. As a means of summarizing students' achievement, portfolios have greater practicality than final grades.
Ques. 5Which one of the following teachers is acting in ways consistent with the textbook's recommendations for assigning final grades?
a. Mr. Arnold meets individually with each student to develop contingency contracts that specify the instructional objectives the student needs to achieve.
b. Ms. Bestani asks students to submit written self-evaluations, and students' self-assigned grades count for 25 of their overall grades.
c. Ms. Chernyshov always describes the criteria she will be using to evaluate assignments, and every two weeks she distributes numerical progress reports to show students the course grades they've earned so far.
d. After class discussions, cooperative learning activities, and other fairly public demonstrations of achievement, Mr. DeJong has students rate one another's performance. Such ratings are used to determine grades in borderline cases.
Ques. 6For which one of the following classes would it be most helpful to create an electronic portfolio rather than a paper portfolio?
a. A middle school geography class
b. A middle school math class
c. A high school debating class
d. A high school creative writing class
Ques. 7Three of the teachers below are using strategies consistent with the textbook's recommendations regarding the use of portfolios. Which one is not consistent?
a. Ms. James tells each of her students which specific artifacts they should include in their class portfolios.
b. Ms. Gaudet lists the criteria that she will use to evaluate students' portfolios.
c. Ms. Shaklee asks her students to include a brief statement about each of the entries they include in their portfolios.
d. Ms. Salih asks students to include at least four writing samples written at various times during the school year in order to show how they have improved over time.
Ques. 8Only one of the following statements describes an appropriate approach to summarizing students' overall achievement with final grades. Which one?
a. Students should be regularly informed of their progress so that they can predict their final grades with some accuracy.
b. Of the four RSVP characteristics, reliability is the most important one to consider in summarizing students' overall achievement; if you have reliability, then you will almost certainly have the other three characteristics as well.
c. Criteria for assigning class grades should be individualized for every student.
d. As long as individual assessments have all been standardized, it is unnecessary to worry about standardizing the way that those assessments are combined into a final grade.
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