Assessment Pre/Post Quiz

What is the purpose of writing instructional objectives? (Slavin, 2021)

• To organize planning, guide evaluation, and improve student achievement

• To know what skill a student needs to improve on

• To limit planning to one week a year

• To organize planning, avoid evaluation, and improve student achievement

What role do distractors/foils play in multiple-choice questions? (Slavin, 2021)

• To provide a correct answers that are not confusing

• To discourage test takers from cheating

• To confuse test takers with tricky answers

• To provide wrong but plausible answers to test takers

Formative assessments are used to..... (Slavin, 2021)

• Discourage students from cramming for tests

• To evaluate students' knowledge at the end of instructional units

• To assign final grades at the end of the course

• To discover strengths and weaknesses in learning and make midcourse corrections

Using a detailed rubric in evaluation can serve ...... (Slavin, 2021)

• To discourage students from practicing skills too long

• To overwhelm students who have not studied the material

• To make scoring more objective and avoid halo effects

• To encourage halo effects

What is mastery grading used for? (Slavin, 2021)

• To avoid providing corrective instruction to students

• To provide full credit for any response given

• To minimize time students have to practice a skill

• To establish a standard of mastery and provide corrective instruction

What is the purpose of performance assessment? (Slavin, 2021)

• To gauge student understanding of a current topic

• To test students' knowledge without needing real-life applications

• To avoid having to write out long tests for students to take

• To ask students to demonstrate their learning in realistic contexts

What is a summative assessment used for? (Slavin, 2021)

• To test student knowledge at the end of instructional units

• To test student knowledge when teaching a new subject

• To measure student knowledge before starting a unit

• To test student knowledge in unrelated contexts

How can task analysis strengthen lesson planning? (Slavin, 2021)

• By grouping lessons together for relative learning

• By determining the tasks that an objective will allow students to do

• By identifying prerequisite skills, component skills, and plan assembly of skills

• By testing students for understanding before a new unit

When using a taxonomy of educational objectives, a teacher will be able to...... (Slavin, 2021)

• To categorize educational objectives based on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

• Teach objectives that touch on every level of use

• To limit educational objectives to only those necessary for a skill

• To avoid categorizing educational objectives in complex tasks

When backward planning...... (Slavin, 2021)

• Start with broad objectives for the course and then specific behavioral objectives

• Avoid planning objectives for the course until students are ready

• Start with specific behavioral objectives and then broad objectives for the course

• Discourage students from achieving specific behavioral objectives in order to attain core objectives