EDP 301 Midterm Exam Questions And
Answers
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Teachers need to give classroom assessments in order to assign grades to students
indicating how well each student has attained the learning outcomes set for them." -
Answer-Traditional
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Because terrific pressures are currently obliging teachers to significantly boost their
students' test scores, every teacher needs to understand how, in most instances, an
educational test actually defines the nature of what's to be taught." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"I think every teacher has a professional obligation to make sure their school is
accurately evaluated, but also to assure that each teacher in the school is accurately
evaluated. Moreover, when appraising schools or teachers, most people rely on
students' test performances. So it is abundantly clear that teachers must understand
what's going on when kids are tested." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Leaders of both the National Education Association and the American Federation of
Teachers have strongly endorsed the more frequent assessment of students as a way
to better educate the nation's children. Accordingly, current teachers need to know
about assessment fundamentals before they try to teach their students." - Answer-
Neither
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"When I plan a new unit of instruction for my fourth-grade students, I always—and I
mean always—first create the end-of-unit assessments I'll be using. By doing so, I
acquire a much more clear idea of where I am heading instructionally, and thereby help
my lesson-planning immensely." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Just a year ago, the voters in our school district voted favorably in a huge school-levy
election that brought in substantial tax dollars for our schools. Most of the district's
teachers are convinced that this positive support for the schools was based on our
schools' consistently high rankings on the state's annual accountability tests." - Answer-
Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
, "Just as physicians need to know about patients' blood pressure and what it indicates,
teachers need to know about educational testing. It is simply part of what a solid
educational professional needs to understand." - Answer-Neither
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"We have an enormously diverse collection of students in our school, and their levels of
achievement are all over the lot. Accordingly, when I get a new group of students for my
third-grade classroom each fall, you can bet that during the early days of the school
year I assess their entry behavior, that is, the knowledge and skills those children
already possess. It helps me to know where I need to put my instructional energies
during the school year." - Answer-Traditional
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"I was quite surprised when our state's department of education insisted that each of the
state's teachers collect accurate evidence of their students' growth because such
evidence was to be used in evaluating all of the state's teachers. I have, for my entire
career, collected pretest and posttest evidence of my students' achievement status
because this helps melong dash—irrespective of what the state wants me to dolong
dash—determine which changes, if any, are needed during next year's instruction." -
Answer-Both
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Wishing that students will make progress does not guarantee that students actually will
do so. And this is why I believe teachers have a fundamental responsibility to monitor
their students' progress throughout the school year. I try to administer informal
progress-monitoring quizzes every few weeks to make sure my instruction is "taking." If
my instruction is not working as well as I want it to work, then I can make modifications
in my upcoming teaching plans. Assessment-based monitoring of students' progress is
so very sensible that it's hard for me to understand why it is not more widely used." -
Answer-Traditional
/.Accurate or Inaccurate representation of one of the 9 factors that should be routinely
considered when deciding what should be the focus of the teacher's classroom
assessments:
"Even though teachers should not take away too much instructional time because of
their classroom assessments, the number of assessment targets addressed by any
classroom test should still be numerous and wide-ranging so that more curricular
content can be covered." - Answer-Inaccurate
/.Accurate or Inaccurate representation of one of the 9 factors that should be routinely
considered when deciding what should be the focus of the teacher's classroom
assessments:
"Whenever possible, teachers should attempt to have their assessments focus quite
equally on the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains because almost all human
acts—including students' test-taking—rely to a considerable extent on those three
domains of behavior." - Answer-Inaccurate
Answers
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Teachers need to give classroom assessments in order to assign grades to students
indicating how well each student has attained the learning outcomes set for them." -
Answer-Traditional
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Because terrific pressures are currently obliging teachers to significantly boost their
students' test scores, every teacher needs to understand how, in most instances, an
educational test actually defines the nature of what's to be taught." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"I think every teacher has a professional obligation to make sure their school is
accurately evaluated, but also to assure that each teacher in the school is accurately
evaluated. Moreover, when appraising schools or teachers, most people rely on
students' test performances. So it is abundantly clear that teachers must understand
what's going on when kids are tested." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Leaders of both the National Education Association and the American Federation of
Teachers have strongly endorsed the more frequent assessment of students as a way
to better educate the nation's children. Accordingly, current teachers need to know
about assessment fundamentals before they try to teach their students." - Answer-
Neither
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"When I plan a new unit of instruction for my fourth-grade students, I always—and I
mean always—first create the end-of-unit assessments I'll be using. By doing so, I
acquire a much more clear idea of where I am heading instructionally, and thereby help
my lesson-planning immensely." - Answer-Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Just a year ago, the voters in our school district voted favorably in a huge school-levy
election that brought in substantial tax dollars for our schools. Most of the district's
teachers are convinced that this positive support for the schools was based on our
schools' consistently high rankings on the state's annual accountability tests." - Answer-
Today
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
, "Just as physicians need to know about patients' blood pressure and what it indicates,
teachers need to know about educational testing. It is simply part of what a solid
educational professional needs to understand." - Answer-Neither
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"We have an enormously diverse collection of students in our school, and their levels of
achievement are all over the lot. Accordingly, when I get a new group of students for my
third-grade classroom each fall, you can bet that during the early days of the school
year I assess their entry behavior, that is, the knowledge and skills those children
already possess. It helps me to know where I need to put my instructional energies
during the school year." - Answer-Traditional
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"I was quite surprised when our state's department of education insisted that each of the
state's teachers collect accurate evidence of their students' growth because such
evidence was to be used in evaluating all of the state's teachers. I have, for my entire
career, collected pretest and posttest evidence of my students' achievement status
because this helps melong dash—irrespective of what the state wants me to dolong
dash—determine which changes, if any, are needed during next year's instruction." -
Answer-Both
/.Tradition reason for assessment, today's reason, or both:
"Wishing that students will make progress does not guarantee that students actually will
do so. And this is why I believe teachers have a fundamental responsibility to monitor
their students' progress throughout the school year. I try to administer informal
progress-monitoring quizzes every few weeks to make sure my instruction is "taking." If
my instruction is not working as well as I want it to work, then I can make modifications
in my upcoming teaching plans. Assessment-based monitoring of students' progress is
so very sensible that it's hard for me to understand why it is not more widely used." -
Answer-Traditional
/.Accurate or Inaccurate representation of one of the 9 factors that should be routinely
considered when deciding what should be the focus of the teacher's classroom
assessments:
"Even though teachers should not take away too much instructional time because of
their classroom assessments, the number of assessment targets addressed by any
classroom test should still be numerous and wide-ranging so that more curricular
content can be covered." - Answer-Inaccurate
/.Accurate or Inaccurate representation of one of the 9 factors that should be routinely
considered when deciding what should be the focus of the teacher's classroom
assessments:
"Whenever possible, teachers should attempt to have their assessments focus quite
equally on the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains because almost all human
acts—including students' test-taking—rely to a considerable extent on those three
domains of behavior." - Answer-Inaccurate
