WGU D184
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1. By what other names is a focus statement known?: - big ideas
- enduring understandings
- objectives or subobjectives
- learning goals
- learning targets
2. What is the purpose of unpacking standards?: - designing instruction and assessment
- to adequately measure proficiency for each student
3. Using the following standard, given an example focus statement and mea-
surement topic:
Understands that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth: FOCUS STATEMENT
knows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth
MEASUREMENT TOPIC
the Sun and the Earth
4. What is declarative knowledge?: students will UNDERSTAND facts, ideas and information
ex: how many letters are in the English alphabet
5. What is procedural knowledge?: students will BE ABLE TO apply skills, strategies, processes
ex: how many doors are in your house?
6. In a standards-based assessment, what contains the important information
from an unpacked standard and is important enough to assess multiple times
to determine student mastery?: measurement topic
7. What are the three steps to writing focus statements?: 1- identify the academic standard
2- unpack the standard
3- write focus statements
8. What are examples of wording that should be included when designing
specifying goals?: - make
- defend
- predict
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- judge
- deduce
9. What are two important characteristics of learning goals?: - goal specificity
- goal difficulty
10. in the classroom teachers are expected to transmit knowledge from the
____________ form to the _____________ form: 1- procedural
2- declarative
11. How does automaticity relate to declarative and procedural knowledge?: -
declarative knowledge is typically connected with automaticity- students have the ability to recall facts. procedural
knowledge takes time, may not be easily explained and is more hands on
12. What do learning targets do?: - provide an accurate guide for what students need to learn on daily
basis
- establish the criteria for what students need to demonstrate
- the expectations for each lesson
- compels all stakeholders to be aligned across similar grade levels and subject matter
- keep family members informed of expectations for their students
13. Declarative knowledge is found in the _______ of a standard: nouns
14. Procedural knowledge is found in the _______ of a standard: verbs
15. What are the three types of learning targets?: 1- learning goal targets
2- foundational targets
3- cognitively complex targets
16. What are measurement topics?: categories of related elements in essential academic standards
17. What benefit does unpacking standards and deriving a few measurement
topics to assess throughout the year have?: it allows students to demonstrate mastery in a topic
area multiple times and improve their capacities and scores
18. What are enduring understandings?: broadly written outcome statements or ideas that are
continuously assessed throughout a course or year and that connect focus statements (learning goals)
19. What evidence do teachers use to evaluate student knowledge and compre-
hension in a standards-based grading system?: students demonstrate a level of mastery related
to a specific measurement topic
20. How does a teacher know student performance is improving in a stan-
dards-based grading system?: Students achieve higher proficiency levels
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1. By what other names is a focus statement known?: - big ideas
- enduring understandings
- objectives or subobjectives
- learning goals
- learning targets
2. What is the purpose of unpacking standards?: - designing instruction and assessment
- to adequately measure proficiency for each student
3. Using the following standard, given an example focus statement and mea-
surement topic:
Understands that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth: FOCUS STATEMENT
knows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth
MEASUREMENT TOPIC
the Sun and the Earth
4. What is declarative knowledge?: students will UNDERSTAND facts, ideas and information
ex: how many letters are in the English alphabet
5. What is procedural knowledge?: students will BE ABLE TO apply skills, strategies, processes
ex: how many doors are in your house?
6. In a standards-based assessment, what contains the important information
from an unpacked standard and is important enough to assess multiple times
to determine student mastery?: measurement topic
7. What are the three steps to writing focus statements?: 1- identify the academic standard
2- unpack the standard
3- write focus statements
8. What are examples of wording that should be included when designing
specifying goals?: - make
- defend
- predict
1/8
, WGU D184
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_gvnaql
- judge
- deduce
9. What are two important characteristics of learning goals?: - goal specificity
- goal difficulty
10. in the classroom teachers are expected to transmit knowledge from the
____________ form to the _____________ form: 1- procedural
2- declarative
11. How does automaticity relate to declarative and procedural knowledge?: -
declarative knowledge is typically connected with automaticity- students have the ability to recall facts. procedural
knowledge takes time, may not be easily explained and is more hands on
12. What do learning targets do?: - provide an accurate guide for what students need to learn on daily
basis
- establish the criteria for what students need to demonstrate
- the expectations for each lesson
- compels all stakeholders to be aligned across similar grade levels and subject matter
- keep family members informed of expectations for their students
13. Declarative knowledge is found in the _______ of a standard: nouns
14. Procedural knowledge is found in the _______ of a standard: verbs
15. What are the three types of learning targets?: 1- learning goal targets
2- foundational targets
3- cognitively complex targets
16. What are measurement topics?: categories of related elements in essential academic standards
17. What benefit does unpacking standards and deriving a few measurement
topics to assess throughout the year have?: it allows students to demonstrate mastery in a topic
area multiple times and improve their capacities and scores
18. What are enduring understandings?: broadly written outcome statements or ideas that are
continuously assessed throughout a course or year and that connect focus statements (learning goals)
19. What evidence do teachers use to evaluate student knowledge and compre-
hension in a standards-based grading system?: students demonstrate a level of mastery related
to a specific measurement topic
20. How does a teacher know student performance is improving in a stan-
dards-based grading system?: Students achieve higher proficiency levels
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