Effective Assessment Practices Pre/Post Test

What are Distractors/foils in a multiple-choice question?

• Correct answers

• Incorrect responses

• Real-life tasks

• Student attitudes

Answer explanation

1. Distractors/foils: Incorrect responses that are offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question (Slavin, 2021). 

True or False: The purpose of Formative Assessment is to evaluate students' attitudes

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The correct answer is to determine if additional instruction is needed (Slavin, 2021).

What does Mastery Grading require?

• An established standard of mastery

• Setting long-range goals

• Offering incorrect responses

• Evaluating real-life tasks

Answer explanation

1. Mastery Grading:  Grading that requires an established standard of mastery, such as 80 or 90 percent correct on a test. Students who do not meet that standard the first time may receive corrective instruction and then retake the test to try to achieve mastery (Slavin, 2021).

Performance Assessments are focused on:

Answer explanation

1. Performance Assessment: Assessments of students’ ability to perform tasks in real-life contexts rather than just showing knowledge. Also called “authentic assessments” (Slavin, 2021).

True or False: The main goal of Effective Assessment Practices is to provide specific, constructive, and timely feedback.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

This is true because Effective Assessment Practices: The process in which information is gathered and discussed to create a deeper understanding. This is to ensure learners are receiving “specific, constructive, and timely feedback regarding their progress” (Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology).

What is the purpose of a Grading Rubric?

• To offer incorrect responses

• To plan daily lessons

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  To set expectations for each activity

• To evaluate real-life tasks

Answer explanation

1. Grading Rubric: A type of scoring of performance that is expected for each activity (Slavin, 2021).

What does the Halo Effect influence?

• Evaluating real-life tasks

• Setting long-range goals

• Offering incorrect responses

• Teacher's opinion of the student

Answer explanation

1. Halo Effect: Bias due to carryover of a general attitude about a respondent, as when a teacher knows which student wrote which response, and his or her opinion of the student affects grading (Slavin, 2021).

The focus of Mastery Grading is acheiving a standard of:

Answer explanation

1. Mastery Grading:  Grading that requires an established standard of mastery, such as 80 or 90 percent correct on a test. Students who do not meet that standard the first time may receive corrective instruction and then retake the test to try to achieve mastery (Slavin, 2021).

What is another name for authentic assessments?

• Formative assessments

• Summative assessments

• Task analysis

• Taxonomy of educational objectives

Answer explanation

1. Summative Assessment: Final evaluations of students’ achievement of an objective (Slavin, 2021).

True or False: The taxonomy of educational objectives refer to Darwin's Evolution theory.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

No, it refers to Bloom’s ordering of objectives from simple to complex.