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ED5023: Assessment Strategies
Final Exam
1. At the classroom level of data use, what question should educators ask about student learning?
a. Are enough students meeting the required standards?
b. Which standards are our students mastering or not mastering?
c. What types of test practice materials should we use to improve student performance?
d. How is each student doing on his or her way up the scaffolding leading to each standard?
2. When planning a unit, Mr. Blake follows these steps. First, he unpacks the standard he is
planning to teach. Next, he decides what types of tests he will use to assess student learning.
Last, he decides what activities he will use to teach the content. Mr. Blake is engaging in the
process of design defined by McTighe and Wiggins.
a. forward
b. standards
c. backward
d. assessment
3. According to the vision of excellence proposed by Stiggins, what is a distinguishing
characteristic of a productive, balanced assessment system?
a. The assessment system is based almost totally on student performance on standardized
tests.
b. Students are active participants and feel a personal sense of control over their academic
outcomes.
c. Traditional assessment results are more heavily weighted than alternative results.
d. The balance of the assessment system is focused at the federal level.
4. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), one goal of accommodations is to ensure that:
a. writers compose standardized test items that are reliable and valid.
b. teachers provide assistive technology for all their disabled students.
c. standardized tests measure a student’s knowledge and not the student’s disability.
d. the state does not give disabled students an unfair advantage over their non-disabled
peers.
5. In Dr. Rick Stiggins’ new vision of assessment excellence, students:
a. are passive about assessment.
b. rarely collaborate with their teachers.
c. become data-based decision makers.
d. view assessment as an isolated event.
6. During a state-mandated standardized test, a teacher read the directions and items on the math
portion aloud to Raul. Under No Child Left Behind, this is a(n) that is specified in Raul’s
.
a. scaffold; classroom record
b. modification; curriculum map