Praxis 5205- General Types of Assessments

What type of assessment is being defined?

A pre-assessment providing instructors with information about students' prior knowledge, preconceptions, and misconceptions before beginning a learning activity.

• Diagnostic

• Formative

• Summative

• Criterion-Referenced

What type of assessment matches with this example?

Before starting a reading unit on Earth space science, a teacher gives a quick assessment to determine students' prior knowledge of concepts in the text. She uses this information to make instructional decisions moving forward.

• Diagnostic

• Formative

• Summative

• Criterion-Referenced

What type of assessment matches with this example?

A teacher walks around the room checking on students as they read. She might also write anecdotal notes to review later to help her design further instruction.

• Diagnostic

• Formative

• Summative

• Criterion-Referenced

What type of assessment is being defined?

A range of formal and informal assessments or checks conducted by the teacher before, during, and after the learning process in order to modify instruction.

• Diagnostic

• Formative

• Summative

• Criterion-Referenced

What type of assessment is being defined?

An assessment that focuses on the outcomes. It is frequently used to measure the effectiveness of a program, lesson, or strategy.

• Universal Screening

• Norm-Referenced

• Summative

• Formative

What type of assessment matches with this example?

A reading teacher gives a mid-term exam at the end of the semester to assess the mastery of standards.

• Performance-Based

• Formative

• Summative

• Norm-Referenced

What type of assessment matches with this example?

After reading the text about the Civil War, students develop stories about different historical figures in the war in front of the class and answer questions.

• Formative

• Performance-Based

• Summative

• Universal Screening

What type of assessment is being defined?

An assessment that measures students' ability to apply the skills and knowledge learned from a unit or units of study. These assessments challenge students to use their higher-order, critical thinking skills to create a product or complete a process.

• Criterion-Referenced

• Norm-Referenced

• Summative

• Performance-Based

What type of assessment is being defined?

An assessment or evaluation that yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population with respect tot the trait being measured. Measured as a percentile.

• Criterion-Referenced

• Norm-Referenced

• Formative

• Performance-Based

What type of assessment matches with this example?

The NAEP is an exam given every few years for data purposes only to compare students' reading scores across the U.S.

• Performance-Based

• Formative

• Summative

• Norm-Referenced