ESCP EXAM 3 QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Which one of the following teachers is definitely scoring students' performance in a
norm-referenced manner? - Answer- Mr. Applebee grades students' essays on the
causes of the American Revolution, giving the five best essays an A, the next five best a
B, and so on.
Imagine you are a 10th-grade history teacher, and you are designing the midterm for
your class. You feel it is important for them to remember names and dates, but you also
want them to show a grasp of the overall themes and issues you have discussed. You
should use an essay test if: - Answer- You want to assess complex learning outcomes.
Mr. Andrews is constructing a multiple-choice test and wants to minimize the chances
that students will answer correctly simply by guessing. Which of the following
suggestions would you recommend? - Answer- Include information that's irrelevant to
the answer.
Ms. Moretti is using a social studies textbook that comes with a set of unit tests, written
by the textbook author. To determine whether to use the test for Chapter 7, the most
important question that Ms. Moretti should ask first is: - Answer- does the test match
what I expect students to know about the topic?
Which of the following is most likely to be identified as an authentic assessment? -
Answer- Mr. Kuhar's students are developing solutions to the problem of industrial
toxins being dumped into their community's drinking water source.
Lately, it seems that students in your school are taking a different test every week. To
avoid creating unnecessary anxiety in the students about formal assessments, teachers
in your school have been advised to increase their reliance on informal assessments.
Which one of the following is the best example of informal assessment? - Answer-
Using a rubric for students to assess their own progress on their dioramas
Imagine that you are a high school language arts teacher who is teaching a creative
writing class to high-achieving students. All of your students have done quite well in
your class. You want to communicate the quality as well as the quantity of what
students have achieved. Your best grading strategy in this situation would be to: -
Answer- have your students create portfolios that show some of their work.
, Which one of the following is the best example of a performance assessment? -
Answer- Having students play the G-major scale in their instrumental music class
To increase reliability when evaluating student portfolios, teachers should: - Answer-
develop scoring rubrics that are flexible enough to evaluate the full range of student
performance.
Ms. Reston has assigned students an essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of his
birthday. She is going to select the writer of the best essay to attend a special breakfast
on the MLK holiday. She has a rubric for grammar, flow, and tone that she will use to
grade all the essays. After grading them, Ms. Reston compares the four essays that
received full credit. From these four, she picks the best one, which she marks as A+.
What sort of scoring is involved? - Answer- Ms. Reston is using both criterion-based
and norm-referenced scoring.
Which one of the following practices is most consistent with the guidelines for using
grading systems in a fair and reasonable way? - Answer- Explain your grading policies
early in the course, and regularly remind students of these policies.
Every week, Mrs. Reinhardt, a second-grade teacher, sends home a newsletter
detailing the events of the week. She also holds
parentdash-teacher conferences twice a year, and encourages parents to contact her if
they would like to have a conference with her at any other time. One advantage of
communicating with parents through newsletters and conferences is that: - Answer-
these forms of communication emphasize more than just student grades.
Charli, a fairly bright student in your math class, has just received a "D" on a calculus
test. She is clearly upset and seems shocked by her low score. Should you be
concerned about Charli? - Answer- No. Students need to fail occasionally to learn to
deal with failure.
One of your third-grade students, Joel, has just received a grade-equivalent score of 4.8
on his last test. His teacher interprets this score correctly and explains it to Joel's
parents, telling them that: - Answer- Joel is performing well in third
gradelong dash—his
test score is about average for a student in the eighth month of the fourth grade.
At the end of Chapter 4, Mrs. Estrada gave her 28 students the 50-point final exam that
came with her textbook. The highest-scoring student answered 48 questions correctly,
for a score of 96%. The lowest-scoring student answered 28 questions correctly, for a
score of 56%. The median score on the test was 76%.
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the distribution of scores
on the exam? - Answer- The distribution has a lot of variability.
100% CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Which one of the following teachers is definitely scoring students' performance in a
norm-referenced manner? - Answer- Mr. Applebee grades students' essays on the
causes of the American Revolution, giving the five best essays an A, the next five best a
B, and so on.
Imagine you are a 10th-grade history teacher, and you are designing the midterm for
your class. You feel it is important for them to remember names and dates, but you also
want them to show a grasp of the overall themes and issues you have discussed. You
should use an essay test if: - Answer- You want to assess complex learning outcomes.
Mr. Andrews is constructing a multiple-choice test and wants to minimize the chances
that students will answer correctly simply by guessing. Which of the following
suggestions would you recommend? - Answer- Include information that's irrelevant to
the answer.
Ms. Moretti is using a social studies textbook that comes with a set of unit tests, written
by the textbook author. To determine whether to use the test for Chapter 7, the most
important question that Ms. Moretti should ask first is: - Answer- does the test match
what I expect students to know about the topic?
Which of the following is most likely to be identified as an authentic assessment? -
Answer- Mr. Kuhar's students are developing solutions to the problem of industrial
toxins being dumped into their community's drinking water source.
Lately, it seems that students in your school are taking a different test every week. To
avoid creating unnecessary anxiety in the students about formal assessments, teachers
in your school have been advised to increase their reliance on informal assessments.
Which one of the following is the best example of informal assessment? - Answer-
Using a rubric for students to assess their own progress on their dioramas
Imagine that you are a high school language arts teacher who is teaching a creative
writing class to high-achieving students. All of your students have done quite well in
your class. You want to communicate the quality as well as the quantity of what
students have achieved. Your best grading strategy in this situation would be to: -
Answer- have your students create portfolios that show some of their work.
, Which one of the following is the best example of a performance assessment? -
Answer- Having students play the G-major scale in their instrumental music class
To increase reliability when evaluating student portfolios, teachers should: - Answer-
develop scoring rubrics that are flexible enough to evaluate the full range of student
performance.
Ms. Reston has assigned students an essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of his
birthday. She is going to select the writer of the best essay to attend a special breakfast
on the MLK holiday. She has a rubric for grammar, flow, and tone that she will use to
grade all the essays. After grading them, Ms. Reston compares the four essays that
received full credit. From these four, she picks the best one, which she marks as A+.
What sort of scoring is involved? - Answer- Ms. Reston is using both criterion-based
and norm-referenced scoring.
Which one of the following practices is most consistent with the guidelines for using
grading systems in a fair and reasonable way? - Answer- Explain your grading policies
early in the course, and regularly remind students of these policies.
Every week, Mrs. Reinhardt, a second-grade teacher, sends home a newsletter
detailing the events of the week. She also holds
parentdash-teacher conferences twice a year, and encourages parents to contact her if
they would like to have a conference with her at any other time. One advantage of
communicating with parents through newsletters and conferences is that: - Answer-
these forms of communication emphasize more than just student grades.
Charli, a fairly bright student in your math class, has just received a "D" on a calculus
test. She is clearly upset and seems shocked by her low score. Should you be
concerned about Charli? - Answer- No. Students need to fail occasionally to learn to
deal with failure.
One of your third-grade students, Joel, has just received a grade-equivalent score of 4.8
on his last test. His teacher interprets this score correctly and explains it to Joel's
parents, telling them that: - Answer- Joel is performing well in third
gradelong dash—his
test score is about average for a student in the eighth month of the fourth grade.
At the end of Chapter 4, Mrs. Estrada gave her 28 students the 50-point final exam that
came with her textbook. The highest-scoring student answered 48 questions correctly,
for a score of 96%. The lowest-scoring student answered 28 questions correctly, for a
score of 56%. The median score on the test was 76%.
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the distribution of scores
on the exam? - Answer- The distribution has a lot of variability.
