Practice Drill - Assessment and Evaluation of Learning

Who among the teachers described below is doing assessment?

• Mrs. Bautista who is administering a test to her students.

• Mr. Ferrer who is counting the scores obtained by the students in his test.

• Ms. Leyva who is computing the final grade of the students after completing all their requirements.

• Prof. Cuevas who is planning for a remedial instruction after knowing that students perform poorly in her test

Mr. Fernandez is judging the accuracy of these statements. Which statements will he consider as correct?

I. Test is a tool to measure a trait.

II. Measurement is the process of qualifying a given trait.

III. Assessment is the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data.

IV. Evaluation is the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data for decision making

• I and II only

• III and IV only

• I, II, and III

• I, III and IV

If I have to use the most authentic method of assessment, which of these procedures should I consider?

• Traditional Test

• Performance-based Assessment

• Written Test

• Objective Assessment

After doing the exercise on verbs, Ms. Borillo gave a short quiz to find out how well students have understood the lesson. What type of assessment was done?

• Summative Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Diagnostic Assessment

• Placement Assessment

Who among the teachers below performed a diagnostic assessment?

• Ms. Santos who asked questions when the discussion was going on to know who among her students understood what she was trying to emphasize.

• Mr. Colubong who gave a short quiz after discussing thoroughly the lesson to determine the programs of learning.

• Ms. Ventura who gave 10-item test to find out the specific lessons which the students failed to understand.

• Mrs. Lopez who administered a readiness test to the incoming grade one pupils.

You are assessing for learning. Which of these will you likely do?

• Giving grades to students

• Reporting to parents the performance of their child.

• Recommending new policies in grading students.

• Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of students.

Ms. Saplan is planning to do an assessment of learning. Which of these should she include in her plan considering her purpose for assessment?

• How to give immediate feedback to student's strengths and weaknesses

• How to determine the area of interest of learners

• How to certify student's achievement

• How to design one's instruction

You targeted that after instruction, your students should be able to show their ability to solve problems with speed and accuracy. You then designed a tool to measure this ability. What principle of assessment did you consider in this situation?

• Assessment should be based on clear and appropriate learning targets or objectives.

• Assessment should have a positive consequence on student's learning

• Assessment should be reliable.

• Assessment should be fair.

Ms. Ortega tasked her students to show how to play basketball. What learning target is she assessing?

• Knowledge

• Reasoning

• Skills

• Products

Mr. Ravelas made an essay test for the objective "Identify the planets in the solar system". Was the assessment method used the most appropriate for the given objective? Why?

• Yes, because essay test is easier to construct than objective test.

• Yes, because essay test can measure any type of objective.

• No, he should have conducted oral questioning.

• No, he should have prepared an objective test.