ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING Flashcards
What is a test?
An instrument measuring the quality, ability, skill and knowledge of a student.
What is a measurement?
A quantifying degree to which someone/something possesses.
What is assessment?
Broader than measurement, it interprets/places information in context.
It also gathers and organizes data into interpretable form.
It is the basis for decision making and evaluation.
Differentiate traditional vs. alternative vs. authentic assessment
Traditional: pen & paper
Alternative: performance tasks, portfolios, projects
Authentic: true-to-life/real-life situations parallel to experiences
Differentiate qualitative vs. quantitative research
Qualitative: Data in narrative form gathered from observations and interviews
Quantitative: Numerical form and administers through tests and instruments
Under the modes of assessment, differentiate traditional, performance, and portfolio?
Traditional: objective; low-level
Performance: actual demonstration of skills
Portfolio: gathering of multiple indicators of student progress
What is assessment FOR learning?
It is done before and during instructions.
Placement (prior): assess the needs for planning of content
Formative (during): monitoring students to get their strengths and weaknesses
Diagnostic (during): recurring difficulties or cause of students’ problems
What is assessment OF learning?
It happens after instruction or a summative assessment.
It certifies what students know or can do in their own level of competency and shows whether assessment was achieved or not.
What is assessment AS learning?
For teachers wherein they undergo training on how to assess, understand and perform their role.
In the types of test, differentiate psychological vs. educational test (purpose)?
Psychological: intelligence; mental ability in large degree without reference to what they learned
Educational: result of instruction of learning
In the types of test, differentiate survey vs. mastery (scope of content)?
Survey: broad; general and are made by professionals
Mastery: specific; fundamental and are made by teachers
In the types of test, differentiate norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced (interpretation)?
NR: comparing student to others; competing for high score
CR: comparing student to standard; pupil’s mastery
In the types of test, differentiate verbal vs. non-verbal (language mode)?
Verbal: uses words
Non-verbal: do not use words (3D models, graphs)
In the types of test, differentiate standardized vs. informal (construction)?
Standardized: broad, multiple-choice, and follows norm-referenced
Informal: narrow, has many types of test, and follows criterion-referenced
In the types of test, differentiate individual vs. group (manner of administration)?
Individual: oral; 1-on-1
Group: pen & paper with same amount of time
In the types of test, differentiate objective vs. subjective?
Objective: 1 answer satisfies the question and don’t have disagreements on what is the correct answer
Subjective: several answers are possible and there are disagreements on what is the correct answer
In the types of test, differentiate power vs. speed (time limit of difficulty)?
Power: items are arranges in ascending order of difficulty
Speed: items are equal to each other
In the types of test, differentiate selective vs. supply (format)?
Selective: choices, multiple-choice
Supply: no choices, uses short answers and is time consuming to score
In the selective type of test, differentiate multiple-choice, true or false/alternative response, and matching type.
Multiple-choice: has a stem with three or more alternatives
True/False, alternative response: declaratives
Matching type: two parallel columns; A is the premise whole B is the answer
In the supply type of test, differentiate short-answer and completion test.
Short-answer: direct question with word, symbol, number or phrase as answer
Completion test: incomplete sentence
In the essay type of test, differentiate restricted response to extended response.
Restricted Response: limits the content of the response
Extended Response: allow students to select any info and organize according to their best judgments
What is a closed-item/forced-choice instrument?
Answers are from choices
Under the closed-item/forced-choice instrument, differentiate checklist, scales, ranking, and alternative response.
Checklist: preferences, hobbies, attitudes, feelings
Ranking: ranking a set of attitudes
Alternative Response: choosing between 2 possible answers
Scale: measures the extent & degree
- rating (3-5 scale)
- semantic differential (5,7, or 11 point that uses contrasting adjectives in statements)
- Likert (agreement/disagreement on positive and negative statements)
- rubric (scoring guidelines; holistic is overall characteristic while analytic is quality of a specific criterion)
What is an open-ended question?
No choices for answers
