WGU D293 SECTION 1 QUESTIONS
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When does formative assessment support students to learn and practice?
✔✔ Throughout the course
Which type of assessment should an instructor administer to collect evidence
of learners' knowledge, skill, or proficiency?
✔✔ Formative
An instructor has asked learners to keep a journal based on personal learning
goals for the course, including the learners' progress toward meeting those
goals.
Which assessment strategy does this activity use?
✔✔ Ipsative
A learning experience designer is asked to design a fill-in-the-blank
vocabulary test for nursing students who are studying for a licensing exam.
Each item has one correct answer, and students receive a final score based on
the number of correct responses.
Which assessment strategy is being used?
✔✔ Traditional
What is an example of indirect assessment?
✔✔ A course survey
, An English Literature instructor has just finished a lesson on Romeo & Juliet,
with this learning objective:
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply a literary theory explored in the
course in a critical analysis of Romeo & Juliet.
Which direct assessment would allow the learner to show an ability to meet
this learning objective?
A multiple-choice test on Shakespeare's plays
✔✔ An essay analyzing the play
A music composition teacher has completed a lesson where the learning
objective is:
"Students will learn the cadence variations of four-four time by composing a single
two-minute piece that can be played at both a waltz and polka tempo."
Which assessment method aligns with this learning objective?
✔✔ Ask the students to compose a single piece and to perform it.
An instructor has asked students to engage with three different sources that
discuss an environmental issue. The students have read the sources, and the
instructor wants to assess students' ability to synthesize the information.
✔✔ Assign a written response or presentation where students combine
insights from all three sources into a coherent argument or analysis.
Which assessments would demonstrate the students' ability to synthesize?
1. Create a presentation highlighting ideas where the sources are in agreement.
2. Write a blog post explaining a new perspective based on the three sources.
Which characteristics describe effective formative assessment practices?
1. Aligns to a specific learning objective.
2. Informs Instruction
3. Helps students learn during a course.
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED +
NEWLY UPDATED 2025
When does formative assessment support students to learn and practice?
✔✔ Throughout the course
Which type of assessment should an instructor administer to collect evidence
of learners' knowledge, skill, or proficiency?
✔✔ Formative
An instructor has asked learners to keep a journal based on personal learning
goals for the course, including the learners' progress toward meeting those
goals.
Which assessment strategy does this activity use?
✔✔ Ipsative
A learning experience designer is asked to design a fill-in-the-blank
vocabulary test for nursing students who are studying for a licensing exam.
Each item has one correct answer, and students receive a final score based on
the number of correct responses.
Which assessment strategy is being used?
✔✔ Traditional
What is an example of indirect assessment?
✔✔ A course survey
, An English Literature instructor has just finished a lesson on Romeo & Juliet,
with this learning objective:
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply a literary theory explored in the
course in a critical analysis of Romeo & Juliet.
Which direct assessment would allow the learner to show an ability to meet
this learning objective?
A multiple-choice test on Shakespeare's plays
✔✔ An essay analyzing the play
A music composition teacher has completed a lesson where the learning
objective is:
"Students will learn the cadence variations of four-four time by composing a single
two-minute piece that can be played at both a waltz and polka tempo."
Which assessment method aligns with this learning objective?
✔✔ Ask the students to compose a single piece and to perform it.
An instructor has asked students to engage with three different sources that
discuss an environmental issue. The students have read the sources, and the
instructor wants to assess students' ability to synthesize the information.
✔✔ Assign a written response or presentation where students combine
insights from all three sources into a coherent argument or analysis.
Which assessments would demonstrate the students' ability to synthesize?
1. Create a presentation highlighting ideas where the sources are in agreement.
2. Write a blog post explaining a new perspective based on the three sources.
Which characteristics describe effective formative assessment practices?
1. Aligns to a specific learning objective.
2. Informs Instruction
3. Helps students learn during a course.
