Educational Assessment Chapter 16

Which of the four basic principles of classroom arrangement has Silverman forgotten?

What is true about essay items?

What do diagnostic tests evaluate?

What should Julie avoid when scoring essays?

Which of the following is not one of the benefits of using high-stakes testing?

Which style of classroom arrangement is most effective for collaborative learning activities?

Which style of classroom arrangement is likely to have the least distraction from students?

What does a best-work portfolio show?

What characterizes students whose teachers adopt the authoritative style of classroom management?

Which statement about underperforming schools under NCLB legislation is false?

What is a major benefit of using portfolios as tools for assessment?

A very small part of preinstruction assessment is informal observation.

Standardized tests can be used to help teachers diagnose students' strengths and weaknesses.

The current model for classroom management emphasizes permissiveness and places sole responsibility on the students for determining and maintaining proper behavior.

Teachers should be discouraged from giving feedback to students during formative assessment.

Compared with secondary school students, elementary school students spend much more time with the same students in the small space of a single classroom.

When considering the link between assessment and motivation, assessments should encourage students to become more meaningfully involved with the subject matter.

Criterion-referenced tests are designed to assess students' skills and knowledge in specific areas, such as English, math, and science.

A learning target consists of what the students know and should be able to do.

Student response systems encourage active student participation and help students explore what they know and don't know—and hence take control of their own learning.

Validity is the extent to which a test produces similar results when administered on multiple occasions, but not the accuracy with which a test measures what it is intended to measure.

Reliable scores are stable, dependable, and relatively free of errors of measurement.

A test score that is valid is reliable, but a test score that is reliable is not necessarily valid.

Schools are spending more time on performance-based assessment because of the increase in high-stakes tests that use these testing methods.

An aptitude test and an achievement test measure the same underlying traits.

Reducing congestion in high-traffic areas is one of the basic principles of classroom arrangement.

A survey battery is a group of individualized subject matter tests that is designed for a particular level of students.

Reading and mathematics are the two areas in which standardized tests are often used for diagnosis.

In the context of classroom arrangement, clustering desks discourages social interaction among students.

True/false items are useful for outcomes where there are only two possible alternatives.

Most state standards-based tests have criterion-referenced scoring.

The seminar style of classroom arrangement refers to an arrangement where students sit facing each other.

When designing your classroom arrangement, you should involve students in planning the layout.

Authentic assessment means evaluating students as precisely as possible.

According to No Child Left Behind, if underperforming schools don't improve after four years, states are required to implement major staff and curriculum changes in the schools and if progress is not made after five years, states must close the schools.

Authoritarian teachers show a caring attitude toward their students.

All performance assessments are authentic assessments, but not all authentic assessments are performance assessments.

According to No Child Left Behind, all teachers now are required to be 'highly qualified'; however, this information is to be kept strictly confidential by the schools.

To function smoothly, classrooms need clearly defined behavioral norms.

Grades help to establish how students measure up and determine whether they meet graduation criteria. This refers to the 'informational' aspect of grading.

Teachers who demonstrate that they care about students as individuals are less likely to gain student cooperation because this behavior undermines the teacher's authority.

A criticism of the current PRAXIS™ and state licensure tests is that these tests assess 'low-level or marginally relevant knowledge and skills' rather than 'deep knowledge of subject matter and actual teaching skills.'

An increasing number of programs reveal that showing greater cultural sensitivity to socioculturally diverse students benefits those who are at risk for academic and emotional problems.

The report card is a standard method of reporting students' progress and grades to parents.

When administering a standardized test to students, it is important for the teacher to communicate a positive attitude and to describe the nature and purpose of the test.

When taking standardized tests, students should be encouraged to skip difficult items and return to them later.

Assessment experts agree that teachers should 'go strictly by the numbers' when grading students to ensure that grades are objective reflections of student performance.

In the case of a normal distribution of scores, the most common scores occur at either extreme.

What is a purpose for preinstruction assessment?

When speaking with students, teachers should use vocabulary that is just beyond the level of understanding for their particular grade level.

What does formative assessment refer to?

Advising, ordering, moralizing, and criticizing are all aspects of effective verbal communication.

What is the least appropriate purpose of formative assessment?

What illustrates the type of question that a teacher would ask during formative assessment?

When teachers give assessments that are too difficult, how will students likely react?

Reliability refers to the extent to which a test:

Being belittled about religion or race is the most frequent type of bullying.

Validity refers to the extent to which a test:

What does the newer view of managing classrooms focus on?

The extent to which a test yields the same performance when a student is given the same test on two different occasions is called:

In the current view of classroom management, the teacher is best viewed as which of the following?

What are recommended classroom management strategies for teachers to follow at the beginning of the school year except which one?

The extent to which a test can be used to predict a student's performance as measured by other assessments is called:

Which of the following least requires a higher level of cognitive skill?

Which form of validity refers to the extent to which a test measures a particular underlying, unobservable trait such as creativity or intelligence?

What is one of the main goals of effective classroom management?

Which of the following is an example of an objective test?

Which of the following are recommended strategies for increasing academic learning time?

Which of the following activities is an example of preinstruction assessment?

When the scores on an employment test directly correspond to the annual performance rating of the employee, the employment test has:

Which of the following statements is true about secondary schools?

What is the best example of formative assessment?

Which of the following activities is the best example of preinstruction assessment?

Mr. Washington asks his students to conduct a presentation on a particular topic. He reminds his students that the topic discussed during the presentation would be part of the weekly test and would require them to be fully attentive during the presentation. In this case, Mr. Washington tries to increase academic learning time of his students by:

Standards-based tests are most appropriate in which of the following situations?

Renaldo has great respect for his English teacher, Ms. Jefferson. She has the uncanny ability to keep the class on track from one activity to another. Even as they move out of their independent seatwork into their response groups, her smiling presence is enough to keep students on task. In this case, Ms. Jefferson increases the academic learning time of her students effectively by:

Which of the following statements is true about formative assessment?

Which of the following would be least likely to be on the agenda of a teachers' meeting to discuss high-stakes testing?

Identify an accurate statement about formal assessment.

Professor Martin conducts a math test. He calculates the scores on all even-numbered items and compares them with the scores on all odd-numbered items. He finds that the scores from the odd-numbered items are vastly different from the scores on the even-numbered items. Which of the following statements is true about the math test?

In which of the following classroom arrangement styles do large numbers of students sit in circular, square, or U-shaped arrangements?

A teacher's initial impressions of students should be treated as:

A science teacher is unsure about the scores for the second batch of tests. Student scores on this last test are not at all similar to their scores on the test conducted two weeks ago. What problem with testing is the teacher confronted with?

Viola conducts a chemistry test. Which of the following strengthens the fact that the test conducted by Viola is valid?

When desks are arranged in rows and columns, teachers are most likely to interact with students in which of the following locations?

Which of the following is a strength of true/false items?

Both aptitude tests and achievement tests have which of the following attributes in common?

Which of the following is not true about an effective strategy for designing a classroom arrangement?

Which of the following is a weakness of multiple-choice items?

Mr. Hernandez is planning to rearrange his classroom in preparation for a new unit in which 20 students of his class will be engaged in whole-class discussions. Which of the following classroom arrangements is most suitable?

A criticism of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation is that:

Which of the following statements is true about multiple-choice items?

According to the No Child Left Behind legislation, schools must show adequate yearly progress (AYP). Otherwise, states will close schools that don't achieve AYP after five years. Which of the following illustrates the best reason for why it can be difficult to achieve AYP?

Essay items are especially good for assessing which of the following?

An aptitude test measures which of the following?

Survey batteries are tests that:

Miss Friedman looks exhausted from rearranging her classroom. She tells her colleague that every time she finally thinks she has it the way she wants it, she remembers an important classroom activity that requires adjustment of the desk arrangement. What has Miss Friedman neglected to do in designing her classroom environment?

Which of the following is one of the most commonly used forms of traditional constructed-response items?

Ms. Mackley teaches middle school science. Her classroom includes an aquarium with fish, a terrarium with two turtles, and a cage with a mouse. The desks are arranged in groups of four so that students can discuss science experiments and work together. Three different centers are set up around the perimeter of the classroom, each focused on a different area of science. Which of the following best describes Ms. Mackley's approach to classroom arrangement?

Aptitude tests are those that: