If students complain that a history test was not a good reflection of what they knew about history, then the test may have low:
a. Reliability
b. Objectivity
c. Validity
d. Variability
Ques. 2Three of the following conditions are likely to affect the reliability of classroom assessment instruments. Which condition is likely to have little or no effect on reliability?
a. Whether the teacher responds consistently to various students' questions about the assessment tasks
b. Whether the teacher gives the same or different instructions to different students
c. Whether students have learned what they were supposed to learn
d. Whether students are distracted by noise outside the classroom windows
Ques. 3. For a standardized test, test administration procedures are often very rigid: All students must take the test with the same directions and under the same conditions. This practice should have the effect of increasing the test's:
a. Subjectivity
b. Reliability
c. Content validity
d. Practicality
Ques. 4Three 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. 5If 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. 6The 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. 7In 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. 8Which 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. 9Which 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. 10. 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
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