Exam 15: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing

Identify the three common measures of central tendency.Which one of the three measures do you believe to be the most informative for assessing the typical performance of a group of students? Explain your selection.

Which one of the following procedures best reflects performance assessment?

After administering a standardized test of reading comprehension,scores are compared to teacher estimates of reading comprehension for each student.What particular technical concern of measurement is involved in this comparison?

Ms.Rogers uses a grading system in her high school Spanish class in which students who average 60-69 percent receive a D,70-79 percent a C,80-89 percent a B,and 90-100 percent an A.Ms.Rogers has the reputation of being an excellent "expert" teacher.This year,18 of her 24 students earned a final grade of A and the other six students earned a B.Her new principal criticizes Ms.Rogers for using "an apparently invalid grading system that fails to provide adequate differentiation between students." -React to the principal's arguments.Do you believe that the grading system is inappropriate? Explain your rationale.

Tests in which the scoring of items does not require interpretation are said to be ________.

The evidence for validity that concerns whether the test measures the trait in question rather than some other trait is what type of evidence?

The median is the score that occurs most often in a distribution.

The process that includes many kinds of ways to sample and observe students' skills,knowledge,and abilities is ________.

A recommended procedure for authentic assessment is

A T-score distribution has a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.

What is the arithmetic mean of the following set of scores? Scores: 0,13,15,16,16

Content-related validity refers to the degree to which the test items cover the appropriate topics.

IQ scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.Based on properties of the mathematical normal curve,which one of the following statements is TRUE?

A general term for the type of testing that is used to guide planning and identify students' needs is ________ assessment.

Both criterion-referenced and norm-referenced report cards indicate student progress toward specific goals.

A general term for the type of testing that is used to determine final achievement in a course is ________ assessment.

Do evaluations of portfolios,exhibitions,and other types of authentic assessment products have the same measurement concerns as those for classroom and standardized tests?

Reliability is the degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

The validity of any test is related directly to the

A teacher who is interested in finding out how well a student is doing in class compared to students in other schools should use what type of test?