Assessment

Which of the following is false?

• Like medicine, teaching is a multidimensional profession that

  calls on teachers to be arbiters, salespersons, lawyers, counselors, and negotiators.

• Assessment is the teacher's analog to the doctor's use of diagnosis.

• Teachers often do prescribe without a diagnosis.

• For competent physicians, diagnosis is a foundational element of practice

Which of the following is false?

• Formative assessments are used to improve instructional outcomes and should rarely be graded.

• Summative assessments are used to judge the students' performance.

• Formative assessments are performed once in a while.

• The formative assessments are performed so that the students can be prepared better for the summative assessments.

Which one of the following is not a purpose of assessment?

• Assessment of instruction

• Assessment for instruction

• Assessment based learning

• Assessment as instruction

Which one of the following is an example of a summative assessment?

• Homework assignments

• Quizzes

• Standardized tests

• Surveys

Which of the following is false?

• Both summative and formative assessments can be formal and informal.

• For differentiation, pre-assessment and formative assessments are essential.

• Surveys, exit cards, and quick-writes are a few examples of formal assessments.

• Informal assessments are very useful in revealing the status of each student in the class with regard to a particular learning target or set of learning targets.