Types of Assessment - 240 Tutoring

Which of the following would be an appropriate summative assessment for fourth grade students who are learning about parts of speech?

• asking students to submit an exit ticket about parts of speech to guide the next day's instruction

• guiding the students through labeling a different part of speech on a sentence at the beginning of each class

• inviting students to come to the board to identify parts of speech together

• having students independently label each part of speech for words in a given sentence

A third-grade teacher asks students to document their learning throughout the school year by choosing exemplary samples of their work. At the end of the year, they are compiled, along with teacher feedback, self-evaluations, and other assessment information. This is an example of a(an):

• Progress report

• Interactive notebook

• Portfolio

• Formative assessment

A 5th-grade student qualifies for an ESE program because she has an intellectual disability. As part of her IEP, she has a goal of mastering 5 science vocabulary words by the end of every science unit. Which of the following assessments would be appropriate to give to the student to determine her level of mastery?

• Ecological assessment

• State assessment

• Summative assessment

• Functional behavioral assessment

Which of the following assignments would best assess a student's ability to incorporate textual evidence as supporting details?

• an essay comparing the theme of two short stories

• an essay identifying the most important person in a student's life

• an essay explaining how to perform a task or activity

• an essay describing the perfect day

While asking students to draw pictures of objects that start with the letter M, the first-grade teacher walks around the room observing what students are drawing to determine how much more time needs to be spent on that skill. Which of the following describes what the teacher most likely trying to do?

• formally assess student progress with alphabetic principles

• decide if the work is good enough to collect as exit slips

• perform a summative assessment of student knowledge

• informally assess student mastery of the phoneme /M/, and use the data as a formative assessment to guide instruction

Which best describes the purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory?

• to assess a student's reading fluency and vocabulary

• to assess a student's interest and engagement in reading

• to assess a student's oral presentation skills

• to assess a student's oral reading skills and comprehension

A 5-year-old student is newly evaluated for ESE services using the Battelle Developmental Inventory-3. This is an example of what type of assessment?

• Diagnostic

• Interim

• Formative

• Summative

Which of the following assignments would best assess a student's mastery of using formal tone and word choice?

• annotations written while peer-editing another writing prompt

• a letter to the mayor about an issue facing the town

• a group skit summarizing a novel's themes and main ideas

• a journal entry describing the best food served in the school cafeteria

Mrs. Peterson, the principal at Northside High School, is a proponent of summative assessments. She has told Mr. Stephens that he needs to include more summative assessments in his ESL curriculum. Which of the following would Mrs. Peterson recommend?

• more end of unit or chapter tests

• more brief written summaries of lectures

• more quizzes self-scored by students

• more completed graphic organizers

A teacher would like her students to generate ideas for a research paper they are working on in class. She gives students several articles to read individually and asks them to write down potential research topics they would like to explore. She asks them to consider a topic that is not too narrow or too broad. Which of the following would be the best method for assessing each student's research topic choice?

• having students complete a graphic organizer with their choice and main points

• having students write their three top choices on an exit ticket as they leave

• having students verbally share their choices in a whole-class discussion

• having students turn and talk with a partner about their choice and write in their journals