Quiz July 13th

The main purpose for assessment of learning is to

• assign grades

• increase student motivation

• inform and guide teaching and learning

• diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses

Mrs. McKenzie administered an assessment to plan meaningful and efficient instruction. Which type of assessment did she use?

• She used formative assessment.

• She used diagnostic assessment.

• She used interim assessment.

State one verb that would be suitable to assess a student at the analysis level of the Bloom's Taxonomy.

Measurement is the assigning of grades on a nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio scale.

(a)  

• True
• False

Which of the following statements represents an evaluative statement?

• Pierre’s IQ is very high.

• Mary’s score on a test was 78.

• Sherry answered 100 per cent of the questions correctly.

• Jane did well on the test.

Binary choice items are dichotomously scored items with two options that are mutually exclusive.

(a)  

• True
• False

Identify two guidelines you should follow when creating quality multiple choice items.

Ms. Jones constructed matching items. Which of the following should she do in order to get the best items? 

(i) Keep the premises and responses on the same page

 (ii) Have the same number of premises as responses 

(iii) Give directions that state the basis for matching

(iv) Keep the items in each column homogeneous

• (i) and (ii)

• (i) and (iii)

• (i), (ii) and (iv)

• (i), (iii) and (iv)

Principal John suggested that the focus of assessment this year will be placed on planning lessons strategically from the start, to tackle the curriculum in the most efficient way in order to make sure that all of the students are on pace to reach high levels of achievement. To which assessment is Principal John referring?

• diagnostic

• formative

• benchmark

• criterion

Restricted response items have a higher probability for subjective marking. ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• false
• true