PEDAGOGY PRAXIS 5153 EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Summative assessment - ANS Given at end of instructional unit to evaluate students
understanding of a specific learning objective
Aptitude assessment - ANS Measures students collective knowledge and learning potential
Diagnostic assessment - ANS used before a lesson or unit to provide the teacher with
information about the student's prior knowledge, strengths, or weaknesses
Behavior assessment - ANS used when creating IEP to identify reasons for a specific student
behavior or to address provlem behavior
Formative assessment - ANS provide feedback during the instructional process to allow the
teacher to adjust instruction to address student needs
Norm-referenced assessment - ANS Compares student performance to another population,
such as peers who have taken the same test
Criterion referenced assessment - ANS How well a student has mastered predetermined
objectives / understands specific content on a test
Portfolio assessment - ANS a collection of student work accumulated over a period of
instruction, such as in a unit or course. Exhibits students efforts, progress, and achievement in
one or more areas
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, Informal assessment - ANS Occurs in a more casual manner and may include observation,
inventories, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, performance and portfolio assessments,
participation, peer and self evaluation, and discussion
Traditional assessment - ANS assessment that focuses on measuring basic knowledge and
skills in relative isolation from tasks typical of the outside world
refers to the types of assessments generally found in classrooms: multiple choice, true-false, or
matching objective exams or fill-in-the-blank, short-answer, or essay exams
Authentic assessment - ANS Assessment procedures that test skills and abilities as they
would be applied in real-life situations
Assessment activities which reflect the actual workplace, family, community and school
curriculum. Involves using tasks that are typical of the kinds of reading or writing that students
perform in school and out.
An alternative form of assessment that reflects the actual learning and activities of students. In
this the emphasis is on the product produced, as opposed to multiple choice or other type of
objective assessments. Examples of this methods would include rubrics, observations, samples
of work, anecdotal records, and portfolios.
Grade-equivalent score - ANS score that compares the raw score attained by an individual
student to the raw score attained by the average student in the norm group for the particular
test and then reports the grade and month level of the norm group comparison
Age-equivalent score - ANS Scores that equate a subject's performance to the chronological
age of that group for whom the obtained score was typical
Percentile rank - ANS percentage of students in a norm group whose scores are exceeded by
any specific raw score
Relative grading standards - ANS used to rank students just within their classrooms
Performance assessment - ANS used to have students demonstrate tasks in real-life contexts
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Summative assessment - ANS Given at end of instructional unit to evaluate students
understanding of a specific learning objective
Aptitude assessment - ANS Measures students collective knowledge and learning potential
Diagnostic assessment - ANS used before a lesson or unit to provide the teacher with
information about the student's prior knowledge, strengths, or weaknesses
Behavior assessment - ANS used when creating IEP to identify reasons for a specific student
behavior or to address provlem behavior
Formative assessment - ANS provide feedback during the instructional process to allow the
teacher to adjust instruction to address student needs
Norm-referenced assessment - ANS Compares student performance to another population,
such as peers who have taken the same test
Criterion referenced assessment - ANS How well a student has mastered predetermined
objectives / understands specific content on a test
Portfolio assessment - ANS a collection of student work accumulated over a period of
instruction, such as in a unit or course. Exhibits students efforts, progress, and achievement in
one or more areas
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, Informal assessment - ANS Occurs in a more casual manner and may include observation,
inventories, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, performance and portfolio assessments,
participation, peer and self evaluation, and discussion
Traditional assessment - ANS assessment that focuses on measuring basic knowledge and
skills in relative isolation from tasks typical of the outside world
refers to the types of assessments generally found in classrooms: multiple choice, true-false, or
matching objective exams or fill-in-the-blank, short-answer, or essay exams
Authentic assessment - ANS Assessment procedures that test skills and abilities as they
would be applied in real-life situations
Assessment activities which reflect the actual workplace, family, community and school
curriculum. Involves using tasks that are typical of the kinds of reading or writing that students
perform in school and out.
An alternative form of assessment that reflects the actual learning and activities of students. In
this the emphasis is on the product produced, as opposed to multiple choice or other type of
objective assessments. Examples of this methods would include rubrics, observations, samples
of work, anecdotal records, and portfolios.
Grade-equivalent score - ANS score that compares the raw score attained by an individual
student to the raw score attained by the average student in the norm group for the particular
test and then reports the grade and month level of the norm group comparison
Age-equivalent score - ANS Scores that equate a subject's performance to the chronological
age of that group for whom the obtained score was typical
Percentile rank - ANS percentage of students in a norm group whose scores are exceeded by
any specific raw score
Relative grading standards - ANS used to rank students just within their classrooms
Performance assessment - ANS used to have students demonstrate tasks in real-life contexts
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