Practice Test 3 - Chapters 3-5

The following item appears in an assessment, "Jennifer and John are working on their math projects together and Jennifer usually struggles. John is much better at math and helps Jennifer with her project." What type of assessment bias may be present?

• Offensiveness

• Socioeconomic bias

• Unfair penalization

• Disparate impact

A 5th grade English assessment contains an essay question that asks students to compare the main character in the book to the Greek god, Zeus. What type of bias may be present?

• Socioeconomic status

• Unfair penalization

• Offensiveness

• No bias is present

If Mr. Higgins, a 4th grade teacher, tries to evaluate his major exams by determining the degree to which his test's items are functioning in a similar manner. If he has an item that seems to be producing different results than the other items, what kind of reliability evidence is this?

• internal consistency

• test-retest

• inter-rater

• alternate forms

How does assessment bias interfere with validity?

• It may cause students to respond differently each time they take the test.

• It may cause the teacher to create different tests for groups of students.

• It can cause students to improve scores if they like the content.

• It can change interpretations of scores for certain groups of students.

The 4th grade science department held an invention convention and students brought their inventions to be scored before being displayed. The teachers score 20 projects each and must score them using the rubric. The decide to collaborate to make sure they score in the same way. What type of reliability is this?

• internal consistency

• alternate forms

• inter-rater

• test-retest

Which of the following could be an example of disparate impact?

• Students classified as low SES score lower than high SES students on a reading entry exam for Kindergarten.

• A male student scores lower than a female student on a reading question that corresponds to a passage on applying make up.

• A Muslim student receives the lowest score on the essay test that includes questions about Christmas traditions.

• None of these

Which one of the following is NOT a type of accommodation recommended in the textbook?

• Presentation

• Timing

• Translation

• Setting

A self-report inventory intended to measure students' confidence that they are "college ready" will be given to 500 high school students in January and then to the same students in February. What type of reliability should be considered?

• internal-consistency

• alternate forms

• inter-rater

• test-retest

What is the most useful component related to reliability that teachers are likely to share with parents when explaining a student's individual test score?

• disparate impact

• standard error of measurement

• internal consistency reliability

• classification consistency

The Texas Education Agency has recently established a policy that, in order for students to be promoted to the next grade level, those students must pass a state-supervised English and language arts (ELA) exam. Administered at the end of grades three, eight, and ten, the three new grade-level exams are intended to determine a student's mastery of the official state-approved ELA TEKS for those three grades. What type of validity evidence would be appropriate for test administrators to determine whether these tests are valid?

• test content

• relations to other variables

• response process/construct validity

• internal structure