Pre/Post Assessment - Effective Assessment Practices Workshop

Who created the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives?

An Instructional Objective is...

• A teacher-set goal influenced by the concerns of students.

• The desired knowledge/skill a student should gain at completion.

• The terms on which you will grade student’s assignments.

• This checks to see if the student understand the materials presented or you need to review it with them more.

Which components of assessment should be avoided?

Answer explanation

• Questions that are confusing.

• Questions that are easy to guess based on process of elimination.

• Questions that contain extra components unrelated to course material which may be more more advantageous to other students.

• Providing more time or help to one student than another.

• Using new question types without warning students ahead of time.

• Overuse of true/false questions because of higher probability of getting the question right without truly knowing the answer (Slavin, 2021, p. 367).

Taking a larger task for students and working through it step-by-step is...

A Grading Rubric is...

• When a teacher designs a class based with final instructional objectives in mind.

• A teacher-set goal influenced by the concerns of students.

• When a test is only counted as passing with a certain grade.

• The terms on which you will grade student’s assignments.

The wrong answers to a multiple choice question are called...

What is the goal of assessments?

Answer explanation

The goal of an effective assessment is to find out how much your students have really learned over the course of a module, quarter, semester, etc.

What is Mastery Grading?

Answer explanation

When a test is only counted as passing with a certain grade. If they do not pass they can try again.

Testing student’s skills through physical tasks, like solving a math problem or writing an essay is called a...

What is an Affective Objective?

• A teacher-set goal influenced by the concerns of students.

• The desired knowledge/skill a student should gain at completion.

• Taking a larger task for students and working through it step-by-step.

• The terms on which you will grade student’s assignments.