Data Sources in Educational Decision Making Quiz

What is one limitation of using grades as a source of data?

• Ability to directly compare observations from different environments and raters

• Lack of consistency from teacher to teacher

• High sensitivity to student growth

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

What is a good reason to use classroom observations to help make educational decisions?

• Directly compare observations from different and raters

• Limited ability to track long-term progress across several grades

• To gain more objective information than the teacher's perspective

• The ability to measure progress toward mastery over time

What is a something to be aware of when interviewing teachers and parents to learn about students

• This is the best way to measure progress over time

• You will know specifically how well a student has mastered a topic

• You'll be getting objective and quantitative information

• Parents often provide biased information due to their emotional attachment

Name a weakness of using student interviews in assessments.

• Ability to measure progress toward mastery over time

• Children typically have very limited insight into their own behaviors, motivations, and feelings

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

Which of these is a good reason to use progress monitoring data to make educational decisions?

• Limited consistency across different subjects and grades

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment

• The use of percentile ranks to know how students compare to peers

• This is affected by bias and emotion

What is a potential disadvantage of using rating scales as a source of data for educational decisions?

• Ability to measure progress toward mastery over time

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

• Not as objective as clinician observations of behaviors

• Ability to turn qualitative data into norm-referenced or criterion-referenced data

What is a potential advantage of using criterion-referenced assessment as a source of data for educational decisions?

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment

• Ability to compare a person's skills to those of other people the same age

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

• Ability to measure progress toward mastery over time

What is a potential disadvantage of using norm-referenced assessment as a source of data for educational decisions?

• Not very helpful in measuring improvement and progress

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

• Ability to compare a person's skills to those of other people the same age

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment

What is a weakness to consider when using norm-referenced assessment to make educational decisions?

• Norm-referenced assessment is not very helpful in measuring improvement and progress in a skill over time

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment

• The ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

• The ability to compare a person's skills to those of other people the same age

What is a potential disadvantage of using norm-referenced assessment as a source of data for educational decisions?

• Ability to compare a person's skills to those of other people the same age

• Ability to measure mastery of a specific topic

• Not very helpful in measuring improvement and progress

• More sensitive to growth than norm-referenced assessment