Instruction and Assessment

What are are intentional, evidence-based teaching techniques or practices that teachers use to maximize student learning?

Who does this describe? Developed a way of understanding various influences in over 800 meta-analyses according to their effect size. In their ground-breaking study “Visible Learning” they ranked 138 factors that are related to learning outcomes from very positive effects to very negative effects.

• Hattie

• Marzano

• Hess

What does an effect size of 0.40 represent on the barometer of influence?

• A full year's growth over the course of one school year of education

• Half of a year's growth over the course of one school year in education

• A full year's growth over the course of half of a school year

• Half of a year's growth over the course of half of a school year

Which of the following is NOT one of Marzano's high yield instructional strategies?

• Identifying similarities and differences

• Summarizing and note taking

• Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

• Reciprocal Teaching

What are the methods teachers use to gain information about students’ learning?

• Effective Instructional Strategies

• Backward's Design

• DOK

• Assessments

Which one is a type of assessment?

• Formatives

• Summatives

• Alternative Assessment

• Standardized Assessment

Which of the following does NOT explain what assessments measure?

• Assessments measure student achievement of learning objectives

• Assessments measure learner's growth and progress

• Assessments measure teacher's classroom design

• Assessments measure teacher's learning effectiveness

Which individuals help new teachers assess and improve their skills, solve problems, and become comfortable in their new positions?

What are the three steps for Backward's Design?

What is different between the traditional method of assessment and Backward's design?