AND CORRECT ANSWERS COLLECTION
●● What is an advantage of criterion reference assessment over norm-
refernce?
Answer: An advantage of criterion-referenced tests over norm-
referenced tests is their diagnostic, placement, and remediation use.
Teachers in Florida are expected to analyze student performance data to
address remediation needs of individual students.
●● Formative assessment
Answer: occurs before and during instruction. It is critical to teachers'
instructional decision making. Formative assessments include screening,
diagnostic, progress monitoring, and various informal classroom
assessments.
●● Summative assessment
Answer: occurs after instruction has taken place at the end of an
instructional unit, regular grading period, or school year. Summative
assessments include outcome assessments and report cards.
●● Screening assessments
Answer: are administered to all students. BOY ( baseline), MOY
(midyear), EOY (end of the year).
,●● Diagnostic assessment
Answer: are administered (usually individually) to selected students for
the purpose of identifying learning strengths and weaknesses with
critical skills and concepts.
●● Progress monitoring assessments
Answer: are regularly administered (that is, dynamic, ongoing)
assessments used to evaluate students' academic progress for the purpose
of making data-based decisions regarding instruction and interventions.
●● When should progress monitor assessment should be used?
Answer: Progress monitoring should occur routinely (weekly, biweekly,
or monthly) and use valid and reliable assessments that are sensitive to
small changes in student academic performance.
●● Informal classroom assessment
Answer: Informal classroom assessments include teacher observations,
anecdotal records, classroom questioning, checklists, guided practice,
student activities, portfolios and work samples, projects and products,
teacher-made quizzes and tests, and homework. Progress reports.
●● Outcome assessments
Answer: Outcome assessments include the end-of-year statewide,
standardized assessments; standardized norm-referenced tests; and end-
, of-grading period assessments. Data from these assessments are used to
evaluate the effectiveness of the instructional program.
●● What are two type of summative assessments?
Answer: Outcome assessments and report cards.
●● Assessment that occurs at the end of an instructional unit is
__________ assessment.
Answer: summative
●● Formative assessments that are designed to identify a student's
strengths and weaknesses are __________ assessments.
Answer: diagnostic
●● What are the types of formative assessments?
Answer: Screening assessments, diagnostic, progress monitoring,
informal classroom assessment.
●● What does reliability refferest to?
Answer: Reliability refers to the consistency of a measurement over time
and repeated measurements. If a teacher gives alternate forms of the
same test periodically over several months and the students' performance
scores remain relatively the same, the test has reliability.