Assessment Grading Testing

The following teachers are using various types of assessments. Which one is most likely used for formative purposes?

• Mr. McLaren’s groups are creating skits to show what they learned in their advertising unit.

• Ms. Allen is giving a pretest before she begins instruction on a new unit in geometry.

• Mrs. Goodeau uses students’ portfolios to determine their final grades in her design class.

• Mr. DeVall gives students a rubric that will be used in grading their oral presentations in his speech class.

Ms. Adams administers assessments three times a year that help her determine each student’s current reading level and use the data to differentiate reading instruction. What kind of assessment is Ms. Adams administering? 

• Pretest

• Summative

• Interim

• Posttest

Identify the question that contains assessment bias.

• Which President was in office at the outbreak of the Civil War?

• Which of the following Civil War leaders surrendered at Appomattox?

• Which of the following men led the Union army at the Battle of Gettysburg?

• Which of the following men is the greatest hero of the Civil War?

Which of the following assessments is most likely to be viewed as an objective test of students’ skills and knowledge? 

• Essay test

• Exhibition

• Multiple-choice test

• Portfolio assessment

What is a common criticism of traditional testing?

• Traditional tests do not test knowledge as it is applied in real-world situations.

• Traditional tests cannot be designed to measure students’ knowledge.

• Traditional tests usually lack validity and/or reliability.

• Traditional tests typically provide subjective measures of knowledge.

Mr. O’Dell wants to assess mastery of knowledge after teaching several lessons on the skeletal system. What assessment method aligns best with his goal?

• Multiple-choice test

• Individual journals

• Portfolio

• Presentation performance

Which of the following teachers uses norm-referenced grading?

• Mrs. Sage uses a rubric to grade her students’ final projects. 

• Ms. Rodman uses a standard grading scale based on percentage of correct responses on calculus tests. 

• Ms. Corrino grades students’ history projects on the basis of criteria specified on her checklist.

• Mr. O’Neal grades his chemistry exams on the curve.