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WorksheetsAssessment of Learning 1 Comprehensive Exam
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins
Which of the following statements about assessment is NOT TRUE?
Assessment is systematic and purpose oriented.
The word assessment is rooted in the Latin word assidere.
Assessment is the process of assigning a numerical score to the performance of a student.
A test is a form of assessment, but not all assessment use test or testing.
Teacher Diana is a values education teacher who aims to practice the principle that assessment should be as authentic as possible. Which of the following culminating assessment activities should she give to her learners to be consistent with the said principle?
A written report on field research
A 100-item final examination using a multiplechoice format
A 100-hour field work with performance assessment using portfolio and rubrics
A classroom portfolio per learner, where learners' activities, outputs, and their learning are documented
Which of the following is TRUE about measurement and evaluation?
Measurement and evaluation involve collection of information.
Measurement and evaluation require the use of tests.
Measurement and evaluation are similar processes.
Measurement and evaluation are part of the assessment process.
Assessment should have a clear purpose. If you are already a classroom teacher, how would you best demonstrate or practice this assessment principle?
Discuss with the class the grading system and your expectations of your students’ performance.
When deciding on an assessment task, its match and consistency with instructional objectives and learning targets are ascertained.
When giving tests, the purpose of each test is provided on the first page of the test paper.
Explain during the first day of classes your assessment techniques and reasons for their use.
Teacher Ana, an English teacher, wants to give an assessment task that measures learners reasoning. Which of the following paper-and-pencil types of assessment can best address her purpose?
multiple-choice
completion
true or false
essay
When Teacher Faye grades her learners' group projects, she uses rubrics to assess and grade the learners' outputs. In addition, she provides a selfreport rating scale, so each learner can report their experience and actual contribution in the completion of their group project. A peer report rating scale is also used, so learners can report their perceived contribution of their group mates. Teacher Faye is practicing what principle of assessment?
Assessment requires the use of appropriate measures.
Assessment is both process and product oriented.
Assessment must be comprehensive and holistic.
Assessment should be as authentic as possible.
. In his physical education class, Teacher Allan designed a task where his learners play competitive table tennis for 30 minutes. Each learner was paired with another learner. Which of the following learning targets can be assessed in the task?
knowledge and reasoning
reasoning and product
skills and product
knowledge and skills
What kind of test can be used by a teacher to determine if a learner will succeed in a technical vocational track?
aptitude
achievement
educational
teacher-made
The teacher provided an assessment before instruction to determine prior knowledge of the learners. The class was noisy, and they are not taking the assessment seriously. The teacher decided to record the scores even if majority of the learners are low. Why is this practice discouraged?
The learners have not yet mastered the lesson and need further help from the teacher.
The learners will complain with the recorded low scores.
The learners did not get what they deserved.
The learners received poor instruction.
Ms. Ubiña developed a one-way TOS while her colleague prepared a two-way TOS for their achievement test. How will their TOS differ?
The one-way TOS shows the objectives targeted by the test, while the two-way shows the content and cognitive behavior that are to be tested.
The one-way TOS will show the number of items and their placement in the test while the two-way format shows only the placement of the items to be tested.
The one-way TOS will show how the number of items were determined while the two-way format does not necessarily require such information.
The one-way TOS will show formats of the items in the test while the two-way format does not necessarily require such information.
Which type of assessment is characterized by continuous monitoring of student progress and helps students understand their strengths and weaknesses during instruction?
Diagnostic
Formative
Placement
Summative
Which group may be encouraged to take advanced studies after reviewing assessment results?
Students
Teachers
Parents
Policymakers
What does an achievement test measure?
Capacity for future learning
Educational and vocational aptitude
Quality and quantity of previous learning
Quality and quantity of previous teaching
Prof. Carol plans to do assessment FOR learning, then she should plan how to ________________.
I. provide feedback to help students improve their work
II. certify student’s achievement
III. assess strengths and weaknesses of students
IV. aligning instruction to learning needs of students
I, II and III only
I, II and IV only
I, III and IV only
II, III and IV only
Miss Angelica would like to cover a wide variety of objectives in the quarterly examination in her English class lesson on subject-verb agreement. Which of the following types of tests is the most appropriate?
True-False
Multiple Choice
Matching type
Essay
Mrs. Jamero is doing an assessment of learning. Which of the following questions would she likely consider?
Do the students have the prerequisite skills?
Which tasks are students handling satisfactorily?
Have the students already achieved the intended outcomes?
What grade should I assign to each student?
Who among the faculty members below was able to ensure fairness in his/her criterion-referenced test?
Mr. Abuan constructed a test composed of all true or false questions.
Mr. Batanga used the objectives for the unit as guide in constructing the test
Mr. Enrique involved students in the design and construction of the test
Ms. Valenza asked twenty questions but asked her students to answer only ten of their choices.
Who gave the most authentic assessment task for the instructional objective “Solve word problems involving operations with fractions”?
Mrs. Domingo who required her students to solve a set of problems on operations with fractions.
Mr. Pastor who asked his students to construct a word problem given a number sentence involving operations on fractions and then solve the problem they have constructed.
Mr. Ildefonso who asked students to construct any word problem on operations with fractions then formed pairs, exchanged problems and helped each other solve the problems.
Mrs. Paas who required her students to construct any word problem involving operations on fractions and then show how to solve them.
Which of the following is observed in a class doing authentic assessment? The students____________.
I. perform tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential skills
II. are required to apply knowledge and skills they have learned in a written test
III. demonstrate understanding by answering essay questions
IV. create presentations to demonstrate certain competencies and skills
II and IV
I and IV
I, II, and III
II, III, and IV
Which is the most reliable tool of seeing the development in your pupil’s ability to write?
Portfolio
Recitation
Self-assessment
Observation
Which best describes a paper-and-pencil type of assessment?
It determines whether students have attained the learning target.
It provides a cognitive task that requires a single correct answer.
It is used to measure what students have learned after instruction.
It determines students’ cognitive and noncognitive characteristics.
Use the Internet in performing search for related research literature. The aforementioned learning target is an example of which type of cognitive learning outcome in the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy?
Applying
Understanding
Knowledge
Creating
The instructional objective focuses on the development of learners’ knowledge. Can this objective be assessed using multiple-choice format?
No, this objective requires an essay format.
No, this objective is better assessed using matching type test.
Yes, as multiple choice is appropriate in assessing knowledge.
Yes, as multiple choice is the most valid format when assessing learning.
What is the number one disadvantage or weakness of fill-in-blank or completion test items?
Ease in constructing test items
Difficulty assessing higher levels of learning
Scoring can be tedious and time-consuming
The possibility that there is more than one answer.
Ms. Cruz is developing a diagnostic test to determine the writing skills of her oncoming Grade 9 learners. What test format is the most appropriate to use and why?
Multiple choice type, as this fast and easy for learners.
Short-answer test, as this requires learners to create an answer through writing.
Completion test, as this measures learners’ grammar/language skills by completing a sentence.
Essay test, as this will demonstrate learners’ language/grammar skills and ability to organize their ideas.
Teacher Vivian is asking her students to identify the equipment in the laboratory. Under the cognitive domain, in which assessment level is this?
Remembering
Understanding
Analyzing
Evaluating
Mrs. Alcantara is doing an assessment of learning. At what stage of instruction should she do it?
before instruction
during instruction
after instruction
prior to instruction
Which of the following best describes formative assessment?
It is conducted at the end of an instructional period.
It provides ongoing feedback to improve student learning.
It is primarily used for grading purposes.
It focuses on the final outcomes of learning.
Which assessment method is most appropriate for evaluating a student's ability to apply concepts in real-world scenarios?
Standardized testing
Performance-based assessment
True-false testing
Multiple-choice testing
During which phase of the learning process is it most beneficial for a teacher to conduct a formative assessment?
At the beginning of the course
Throughout the instructional period
At the end of the course
Only when students request it
What is the primary purpose of using rubrics in assessment?
To provide a standardized grading system
To ensure consistency and fairness in evaluating student work
To simplify the grading process for teachers
To allow students to grade themselves
Which assessment type is best suited for measuring a student's ability to synthesize information from multiple sources?
True-false tests
Project-based assessment
Standardized tests
Short-answer tests
What does it mean when a student got a score at the 70th percentile rank on a test?
The performance of the student is above average.
The student answered 70% of the items correctly.
The student got at least 70% of the correct answers.
The student’s score is equal or above 70% of the other students in class.
Teacher John prepared a TOS as his guide in developing a test. Why is this necessary?
To guide the planning of instruction
To satisfy the requirements in developing a test
To have a test blueprint as accreditation usually requires the plan
To ensure that the test is designed to cover what it intends to measure
When the distribution is skewed to the right, what kind of test was administered?
Difficult
Easy
Average/moderately difficult
Partly easy - partly difficult
Here is the test item: _________ is an example of a mammal. What is defective with the test item?
The blank is at the beginning of the sentence.
It is very short question.
It is insignificant test item.
It is very elementary.
The difficulty index of a test item is 0.10. What does it mean?
The test item is very good, so retain it.
The test item is very difficult.
The test item is extremely easy.
The test item is not valid.
If the difficulty index of your test item is .65 and has a discrimination index of .10, what should you do with this item?
Revise it.
Reject it.
Retain it.
Reserved it for another group of pupils
Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1.
To get the picture of the group's performance, which measure of central tendency is most reliable?
Mode
Mean
Median
None. It is best to look at the individual scores.
Here are raw scores in a quiz: 97, 95, 85, 83, 77, 50, 10, 5, 2, 1. Which is the median?
75
52.72
63.5
77
A test item has a difficulty index of .51 and discriminating index of .25. What should a teacher do?
Make it a bonus item.
Retain the item.
Revise the item.
Reject the item.
What can be said of student’s performance in a positively skewed score distribution?
Almost all students had average performance.
A few students performed excellently.
Most students performed poorly.
Most students performed well.
In a grade distribution, what does the normal curve mean?
A large number of students receiving low grades and very few students with high grades.
A large number of more or less average students and very few students receiving low and high grades.
A large number of students with high grades and very few with low grades
All of the students have average grades.
Which distribution is negatively skewed in the figure shown?
Distribution X
Distribution Y
Distribution Z
Distribution W
Which best describes a normal distribution?
positively skewed
negatively skewed
symmetric
bimodal
A class is composed of academically good students.
The distribution of their grades will most likely to be _____________.
platykurtic
skewed to the right
skewed to the left
perfectly normal
The distribution of the scores of a group of students in English is negatively skewed? What does this imply?
The mean corresponds to a high value.
The mode corresponds to a low value.
The median is higher than the mean.
The mean is higher than the median.
What is the difficulty index if 25 students answered item X, and 10 students answered it correctly?
0.25
(Difficult)
0.40
(Difficult)
0.40
(Moderately Difficult)
0.60
(Easy)
Maria scored 85 on a test, and this score corresponds to the 90th percentile. This means that:
Maria scored better than 90% of the test-takers.
Maria scored worse than 90% of the test-takers.
Maria scored in the top 10% of the test-takers.
Both A and C are correct.
An item with a difficulty index of 0.40 and a discrimination index of 0.15 should be:
Retained
Revised
Rejected
Discarded
In a classroom assessment, what does a bimodal distribution indicate?
There is a normal distribution of scores.
All students are performing at the same level.
Most students are performing poorly.
There are two distinct groups of students performing at different levels.
Given the scores: 100, 95, 90, 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, what is the mean score?
90
75
80
85
Which assessment method is most effective for evaluating student understanding during a lesson?
Formative assessment
Summative assessment
Standardized testing
Diagnostic assessment
What is the primary purpose of summative assessment?
To identify students' strengths and weaknesses throughout the course.
To evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit.
To provide ongoing feedback during the learning process.
To assess students' understanding of the material in real-time.
Which assessment method is most effective for evaluating a student's critical thinking skills?
Fill-in-the-blank questions
True-false questions
Essays and open-ended questions
Multiple-choice questions
What is the primary advantage of using performance assessments in education?
They are easier to grade than traditional tests.
They provide a comprehensive view of student abilities.
They can be administered to large groups at once.
They focus solely on memorization of facts.
In a criterion-referenced test, what is the main focus of assessment?
Evaluating the effectiveness of teaching methods
Comparing students to each other
Measuring student performance against a set standard
Determining the overall class average
In a classroom setting, what does a portfolio assessment typically include?
Standardized test scores only.
A collection of student work that reflects their learning progress.
Teacher's observations and notes.
Only the final grades of the students.
In a classroom with a normal distribution of grades, what can be expected about the students' performance?
Scores will be evenly distributed across all ranges.
Most students will score around the average.
Most students will score very high.
Most students will score very low.
Which assessment method is least effective for assessing "Product" learning targets?
Short Answer
Essay
Problem-Solving
True or False
