MPT – Pedagogy: Questions With Apposite
Solutions
Accommodations Correct Answer - teaching, assessment
strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment
required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate learning.
The provincial curriculum expectations for the grade are NOT
altered
Achievement chart Correct Answer - .A standard, province-
wide guide used to make judgements about student work based on
clear performance standards
Achievement levels Correct Answer - Brief descriptions of four
different degrees of student achievement of the curriculum
expectations for any given subject/discipline.
Level 3 is the "provincial standard".
Level 1 identifies achievement that falls much below the provincial
standard.
Level 2 identifies achievement that approaches the standard.
Level 4 identifies achievement that surpasses the standard.
Assessment Correct Answer - The process of gathering, from a
variety of sources, information that accurately reflects how well a
student is achieving the curriculum expectations in a subject or
course.
Assessment AS learning Correct Answer - Assessment with the
goal of helping students to become more conscious of their own
thinking and learning processes. Happens during the learning...peer-
assessment falls under this
, Assessment FOR learning Correct Answer - The ongoing
process of gathering and interpreting evidence about student
learning for the purpose of determining where students are in their
learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there. Used to
provide feedback and adjust instruction and to focus students'
learning
Assessment OF learning Correct Answer - Summative
assessments of students used to determine grades, placements,
graduation, and college admission.
Categories of knowledge and skills Correct Answer -
knowledge and understanding, thinking, communication,
application
Criterion-referenced assessment Correct Answer - Assessment
that focuses on whether a student's performance meets a
predetermined standard, level, or set of criteria rather than on the
student's performance measured in relation to the performance of
other students.
Curriculum expectations Correct Answer - The knowledge and
skills that students are expected to develop and to demonstrate in
their class work, on tests, and in various other activities on which
their achievement is assessed and evaluated.
Overall expectations describe in general terms the knowledge and
skills that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each
grade/course. Specific expectations describe the expected
knowledge and skills in greater detail.
Diagnostic assessment Correct Answer - Assessment that is
used to identify a student's needs and abilities and the student's
readiness to acquire the knowledge and skills outlined in the
curriculum expectations. Diagnostic assessment usually takes place
Solutions
Accommodations Correct Answer - teaching, assessment
strategies, human supports, and/or individualized equipment
required to enable a student to learn and to demonstrate learning.
The provincial curriculum expectations for the grade are NOT
altered
Achievement chart Correct Answer - .A standard, province-
wide guide used to make judgements about student work based on
clear performance standards
Achievement levels Correct Answer - Brief descriptions of four
different degrees of student achievement of the curriculum
expectations for any given subject/discipline.
Level 3 is the "provincial standard".
Level 1 identifies achievement that falls much below the provincial
standard.
Level 2 identifies achievement that approaches the standard.
Level 4 identifies achievement that surpasses the standard.
Assessment Correct Answer - The process of gathering, from a
variety of sources, information that accurately reflects how well a
student is achieving the curriculum expectations in a subject or
course.
Assessment AS learning Correct Answer - Assessment with the
goal of helping students to become more conscious of their own
thinking and learning processes. Happens during the learning...peer-
assessment falls under this
, Assessment FOR learning Correct Answer - The ongoing
process of gathering and interpreting evidence about student
learning for the purpose of determining where students are in their
learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there. Used to
provide feedback and adjust instruction and to focus students'
learning
Assessment OF learning Correct Answer - Summative
assessments of students used to determine grades, placements,
graduation, and college admission.
Categories of knowledge and skills Correct Answer -
knowledge and understanding, thinking, communication,
application
Criterion-referenced assessment Correct Answer - Assessment
that focuses on whether a student's performance meets a
predetermined standard, level, or set of criteria rather than on the
student's performance measured in relation to the performance of
other students.
Curriculum expectations Correct Answer - The knowledge and
skills that students are expected to develop and to demonstrate in
their class work, on tests, and in various other activities on which
their achievement is assessed and evaluated.
Overall expectations describe in general terms the knowledge and
skills that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each
grade/course. Specific expectations describe the expected
knowledge and skills in greater detail.
Diagnostic assessment Correct Answer - Assessment that is
used to identify a student's needs and abilities and the student's
readiness to acquire the knowledge and skills outlined in the
curriculum expectations. Diagnostic assessment usually takes place
