Review of Lecture 24 (Assessment & Feedback)

We talked about summative and formative assessment in Lecture 24. Which of these two does the following description explain?

This type of assessment occurs after relatively short periods of time. Teachers may use these types of assessment to see if students understand new material. These types of assessments can help teachers adjust what or how they teach. Exit Tickets may serve as this type of assessment.

• summative assessment

• formative assessment

We talked about summative and formative assessment in Lecture 24. Which of these two does the following description explain?

These types of assessment occurs after relatively longer periods of time. Teachers may use these types of assessment to see if students understand material that was covered in a course, over a semester, etc.

• summative assessment

• formative assessment

There is a term in the field of assessment that refers to how the contents of tests may influence how teachers teach. For example, if teachers know what will be on tests, they may "teach to the test". This means that what they teach, and perhaps how they teach, is to prepare students for a test. This contradicts with assessment in which teachers design tests that cover what they taught.

Question: What is this term?

• syntax

• norm-referenced

• summative

• washback

In Lecture 24, we discussed topics related to creating test questions. One of these topics relates to whether or now we are actually assessing what we think we are. For example, we may think we are assessing reading skills, but we might in actuality be assessing grammar knowledge. Another topic relates to consistency. For example, if a student took the same kind of test three times, but had different scores each time, we may become suspicious about the test. Another example is three different students getting different scores on the same test even though the students are at the same ability level. Something may be wrong with the test.

Question: What are the terms referring to these two topics?

• formal and informal tests

• validity and reliabity

• norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests

• summative assessments and formative assessments

True or False:

We may take the paper version of the Final Exam in one of Patrick's other sections if we contact him first to make sure he has enough copies of the exam.

• True

• False

True or False: The Final Paper is due on the last day of this semester (Lecture 30).

• True

• False.

True or False: The topic of the Final Paper may be the same as the topic we chose to do in our Group Presentations.

• True.

• False.

True or False: Patrick has created a template for every student to write their Papers with. These templates are in Google Drive and have each of our names in the name of the file.

• True

• False

True or False: Lecture 27 (December 11, 12, 13) is dedicated to students preparing their Group Projects or working on their Papers if their Group Projects are ready. Therefore, on the Day of Lecture 27, students should bring laptops, tablets, or cell phones to work on their Group Projects and/or Papers.

• True

• False