Assessment in Learning 1 Final Quiz

Brad obtained a stanine score of 5 in the National Achievement Test in Mathematics. How can we describe the performance of Louie?

• Below average

• Average

• Above average

• Between average and above average

Which statement can describe a positively skewed distribution of students’ performance?

• Few students got low scores

• Most of the students got average scores

• Most of the students got low scores

• The scores are normally distributed

Teacher Johnny gave a test in Science. Most of the students got scores below the mean. What is the graphical representation of their scores?

• Skewed to the right

• Platykurtic

• Skewed to the left

• Normally distributed

In which subject are the scores more dispersed?

• English

• Mathematics

• Music

• PE

Alfonso plays basketball on a team. He has played three games so far. In the first game, he scored 10 points. In the second game, he scored 16 points. In the third game, he scored 7 points. What is Alfonsos average points per game?

• 9

• 11

• 10

• 8

Consider Maras scores on math quizzes this term: 80, 80, 88, 90, 93. Find the score needed on the next quiz to bring her average up to 88.

• 78

• 90

• 88

• 97

Most of the students who took the examination got scores above the mean. What is the graphical representation of their scores?

• Normal curve

• Positively skewed

• Mesokurtic

• Negatively skewed

In a final examination, Mr Gabriel noticed that the distribution of test scores of his learners had an extremely large standard deviation. What does this observation indicate?

• The number of learners who took the test is large.

• The test measures a wide range of knowledge

• The learners performed very well in the test.

• The learners' scores vary quite a bit.

Scores on an English test have an average of 80 with a standard deviation of 6. Did George, who scored a 75 on the test, perform relatively better than Mark, whose score got a z-score equivalent of -0.7?

• Yes, because George has higher z-score.

• No, because George got higher z-score.

• Yes, because George got lower z-score.

• No, because George got lower z-score.

Shown in the table are Ritz'z scores in the examination, the mean or average scores in his class, and the standard deviations of their class scores. In which subject did Ritz perform poorly?

• English

• Mathematics

• Music

• PE