Assessment in Learning Prelims

What is the primary purpose of assessment?

• To grade students and provide reliable information on progress

• To improve student learning and provide reliable information on progress

• To rank students against each other and provide reliable information on progress

• To evaluate teacher performance and provide reliable information on progress

Which of the following can serve as evidence of student learning in assessment?

• Dialogue records

• Teacher's personal opinions

• School attendance records

• Administrative reports

What forms can evidence of learning take?

• Only tests

• Journals, written work, portfolios, and tests

• Only research papers

• Grades alone

The overall goal of assessment includes providing reliable information regarding what aspects of student learning?

• Their social skills and attainment of expected learning outcomes

• Student progress and attainment of expected learning outcomes

• Their extracurricular activities and attainment of expected learning outcomes

• Their financial literacy and attainment of expected learning outcomes

Assessment results provide a clearer picture of a student's what?

• Popularity

• Family background

• Ability

• Favorite subjects

Evaluation originates from the root word "value" and seeks information regarding what aspects of something for which a reliable measurement has been made?

• Its cost, appropriateness, goodness, validity, or legality

• Its worth, appropriateness, goodness, validity, or legality

• Its popularity, appropriateness, goodness, validity, or legality

• Its age, appropriateness, goodness, validity, or legality

What is the end result of evaluation?

• To make a judgment about a particular situation and adopt, reject, or revise what has been evaluated

• To simply collect data about a particular situation and adopt, reject, or revise what has been evaluated

• To provide feedback only about a particular situation and adopt, reject, or revise what has been evaluated

• To criticize without proposing solutions about a particular situation and adopt, reject, or revise what has been evaluated

Which of the following are listed as objects of evaluation?

• Only instructional programs

• Teachers, students, and educational goals

• Only school buildings

• Parents' opinions

What are the two broad categories often dividing evaluations?

• Qualitative and Quantitative

• Formative and Summative

• Internal and External

• Initial and Final

What does formative evaluation focus on?

• The result of the program activities

• The process of program activities while they are in progress

• The overall cost of the program

• The final judgment of a program