Assessing Students with Special Needs Chapter 6

This informal classroom assessment is also an instructional technique

• observation

• response analysis

• task analysis

• diagnostic probes

Which of the following statements is false?

• Curriculum-based assessment tools use the school's curriculum as the standard of comparison.

• Some informal classroom assessments are curriculum-based.

• The major purpose of curriculum-based assessment is comparison of one student's performance to that of grade peers.

• Most experts recommend that curriculum-based assessment be a frequent occurrence so that pupil progress can be monitored.

When analyzing a task such as two-digit by two-digit addition with regrouping, which type of task analysis would be most appropriate?

• Analysis by temporal order

• Analysis by developmental sequence

• Response analysis

• Error analysis

Which is not an advantage of informal classroom assessment techniques?

• They help in the selection of instructional goals and objectives.

• They document student progress.

• They are accurate predictors of student achievement.

• They may indicate the need for further assessment.

Informants are used in assessment for all of the following purposes except to provide

• objective information

• information about attitudes

• opinions and interpretations

• historical perspective

According to your text, interrater reliability for observations should be at least

• 60%

• 70%

• 80%

• 90%

Which is the most direct means of gathering information about a student's strategies for attacking and completing a task?

• Clinical interview

• Diagnostic probe

• Task analysis by developmental sequence

• Work sample analysis

When interpreting the results of a criterion-referenced test, the teacher should consider

• the age of the student

• the importance of the skill assessed in relation to other skills

• the age-appropriateness of the skill

• all of the above

In response analysis

• the student's errors are analyzed

• the task in which the student experiences difficulty is analyzed

• both correct and incorrect answers are analyzed

• only correct answers are analyzed

Which type of observation is used to identify target behaviors?

• Duration recording

• Event recording

• Continuous recording

• Rate and frequency measures