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| Assessment is a formal attempt to determine students' status with respect to educational variables of interest. |
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| List three reason why teachers assess students. |
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1. To diagnose students' strengths and weaknesses
2. To monitor student progress
3. To assign grades to students
4. To determine instructional effectiveness. |
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| Compare formative and summative assessments. |
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| Formative assessments evaluate the knowledge of students and is used to assess where students are at in terms of content. Summative assessments evaluate the overall knowledge in a content area (like a midterm/final). |
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| What is a performance assessment? |
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| An approach to measuring a students' status bases on the way the student completes a specified task. |
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| Give another name for performance assessment. |
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| Alternative assessment authentic assessment. |
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| Name an advantage to perfomance assessment. |
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1. Links curriculum and assessment
2. Natural and provides realistic data |
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| Why are learning goals important? |
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| Learning goals define what a teacher may want students' to attain in their content area. |
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| List two components found in traditional assessment |
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~ Multiple choice ~ Short answer
~ Completion ~ True/False
~ Matching |
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| Why are preassessments beneficial to students? |
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| Preassessments identify strengths and weaknesses of students in a specific content area. |
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| List three factors that influence the reliability of a test. |
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1. Objectivity
2. Difficulty of test
3. Length of test |
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| A rubric is a scoring procedure for judging students responses to performance tests. |
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| List three factors that go into creating a rubric. |
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1. Evaluative criteria
2. Descriptions of qualitative differences for the evaluative criteria
3. Decision on holistic or analytic scoring |
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| Describe the difference between holistic and analytic scoring |
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| Holistic scores task/skill as a whole whereas analytic scores a specific point allocation to each task/skill assessed |
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| Name the factors used when selecting performance test tasks. |
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1. Generability 2. Authenticity
3. Multiple foci 4. Teachability
5. Fairness 6. Feasability
7. Scorability |
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| Distinguish between assessing and testing. |
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| Most test are paper/pencil evaluations whereas assessments come in a variety of ways and can have multiple variables assessed. |
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