PPR Practice

What is the definition of authentic assessment?

• uses formative data to measure learning throughout the course of instruction.
• an alternative assessment method based on a student's performance of a skill based on a real life situation.
• demonstration a specific skill by constructing a product or solving a problem that could be applied to a real-life situation.

A criterion based assessment.....

• is an exam that has a defined pass/fail point and tells us whether a student has mastered a topic.
• provides the student with a score that is expressed as percentile.
• reports the students score in relationship to a statistical norm group.
• an alternative assessment method based on a student's performance

A formative assessment allows us to gather

• information at the end of instruction and could come in the form of a quiz, test, or research paper.
• information about the students learning throughout the course of learning.
• information about where a student ranks against others in class.

At the end of class you have your students play a Quizizz game to assess their understanding of the day's topics .  What type of assessment is this?

• Formative Assessment
• Formal Assessment
• Performance Based Assessment
• Informal Assessment

In a cosmetology class Mr. Smith has his students perform a haircut and evaluates how well the student cut their mannequin's hair.  What type of assessment is this?

• Performance-Based assessment
• Authentic Assessment
• Student Self-Assessment
• Criterion-reference assessment

A team of English teachers are grading 10th-grade STAAR writing samples. They pick one student sample and everyone grades it to make sure their scoring is consistent among all raters.  They are trying to ensure that their grading is........

• valid
• reliable
• biased
• referenced

For an upcoming project, each student is given a rubric to use while they are working on their project in engineering class.  After the third day, the teacher asks the students to use the rubric and reflect on their progress and describe three areas in which they can improve their work.  This is known as a ......

• Student Self-Assessment
• Observational Assessment
• Norm-Referenced Assessment
• Curriculum-Based Assessment

As Ms. Hall is editing her test she takes a moment to reflect and answer this question, "Does the test actually test what it says it does?"  She is trying to ensure that the test is....

• Reliable
• Formative
• Valid
• Summative

At the end of a unit, the accounting class at Texas High School is taking a test. What type of assessment is this?

• Summative

• Formative

• Observational

• Standard

The students are going to be taking a test that measures a student's ability to solve algebra questions. When the students receive their scores they are expressed as percentiles and they are compared them to other students across Texas. This is know as what type of assessment?

• Authentic Assessment

• Criterion-Referenced Assessment

• Norm-Referenced Assessment

• Summative Assessment