ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

Which of the following is NOT a feature of assessment?

• Regular, formative and competency based assessment

• Promoting learning and development of students

• Focuses on assessment for learning

• Helps entire schooling system to reuse the syllabus without revision

Which form of assessment helps a teacher evaluate a students progress as well as effectiveness of instructional methods at the end of a unit or grading period?

• Formal Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Informal Assessment

• Diagnostic Assessment

__________ compare a student's knowledge against a predetermined standard or criteria.

• Norm-referenced tests

• Summative tests

• Criterion-referenced tests

• Formative tests

_________ compare a students' performance against the performance of their peer.

• Norm-referenced tests

• Summative tests

• Criterion-referenced tests

• Self referenced tests

Which of the following is not true of norm and criterion-referenced tests?

• A test can only be norm-referenced or criterion-referenced.

• A test can be both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced.

• Norm-referenced compares students and populations of students to each other.

• Criterion-referenced compares performance to specific standards.

What is formative assessment?

• A process, not a test; to inform during the instruction for immediate or near future use (to change or improve instruction)

• a standard for evaluating learning of students and the procedures that provides the required information

• an act of passing judgement on the basis of set of standards that determines the extent to which objectives are achieved

Which are types of formative assessment?

• Portafolios

• Observation, homework, class activities, students feedback

• Tests and evaluations

• Rubrics and checklists

 

The main categories in Bloom's Taxonomy are ...

• Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

• Awareness, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.

• Know, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Synthesize, and Evaluate.

• Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, and Create.

Infer, follow, interpret, summarize, demonstrate, cite and interpolate are all verbs representing what level of Bloom's taxonomy.

• Application

• Knowledge

• Synthesis

• Comprehension

Bloom chose a pyramid because the higher levels build upon the lower levels

• True

• False