Teaching II Partial Review

"Last hour's exam included a lesson we hadn't seen yet."

What characteristic of good exams was the test missing?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Practicality

• Backwash

If an exam looks like it is testing what it's supposed to test, it has...

• Content validity

• Construct validity

• Face validity

If an exam tests only what it's supposed to test, and nothing else, it has...

• Content validity

• Construct validity

• Face validity

Which of the following is NOT a type of reliability?

• Test

• Scorer

• Content

What can help you improve your test reliability?

• Having varied and familiar testing techniques

• Having clear instructions

• Restricting the task

• All of the above

A student took an exam that was based around finding vocabulary words in a crossword puzzle, but they had never practiced an activity like that before.

Their exam lacked...

• Validity

• Reliability

• Practicality

• Backwash

For the school's English II exam, there were 5 teachers assigned to check its results. They decided to create an answer key to grade the exams.

This technique improves...

• Test reliability

• Scorer reliability

True or false. Scorer reliability can be improved by providing the teachers with a rubric or an answer key before they have to grade an exam.

• True

• False

Last week's History exam consisted of only a question that students had to answer in an essay format. We had never practiced that type of activity before.

This test is lacking...

• Validity

• Reliability

• Practicality

• Backwash

You want to test your students' writing, so you ask them to point out grammar mistakes in pre-written sentences.

• Direct testing

• Indirect testing