Domain 4 - Assessment

Question 1

Formative Assessment

Answer 1

Assessments that give indications of what needs to be adjusted, corrected, or otherwise improved based on feedback.

An easy way to evaluate individual student learning

E.g. quiz in the middle of a unit or a survey asking how things are going so far in learning the content

Question 2

Summative Assessment

Answer 2

Test determining what students have learned over a period. E.g. Unit exam

Sum up what students have learned over a course, unit, or lesson

Question 3

Domain 4 - Assessment Standards
(three)

Answer 3

1. Monitor’s student progress closely
2. Understands testing concepts
3. Gives high-needs students extra time and instruction they need to succeed

Question 4

Norm referenced testing

Answer 4

Measures student achievement compared to one another, not against a defined standard. e.g. grading on a curve.

Differentiation between students is the goal.

does not measure student success against a defined standard or criteria, but against the achievement of the other students who took the test. This is also known as “grading on the curve” or “curving” the test results.

Question 5

Criterion referenced testing

Answer 5

Compares a student’s performance to a specific standard. Tests a student’s knowledge of specific goals. e.g their raw score on a test

Measure the amount or percentage of content students know or can perform. It is possible for all students in a group to perform equally well. Differentiation is not the goal.

compares an individual’s performance to a specific standard or learning objective. This informs the students and teacher about how well the students performed on specific goals rather than how their performance compared to a norm-referenced group.

Question 6

Performance Assessments

Answer 6

Form of testing where the assessment is not a traditional paper and pencil test, but rather an exhibition of skills. E.g., open-ended questions, hands-on problem-solving, cartoons, experiments, inventions, musical compositions, original plays, stories, dances, essays, and story illustrations.

Question 7

What skews the mean in a set of data?

Answer 7

Outliers

Question 8

True or false:
Standard deviation is a good way to measure the central tendency of data.

Answer 8

False
Standard deviation is never a measure of center

Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out the data is

Question 9

What is the value of portfolios?

Answer 9

It allows students to document their progress over time.

Question 10

How long should a teacher wait for an answer to a question

1) a question that requires low order thinking (knowledge)

2) a question that requires high order thinking (application, synthesis, analysis, evaluation)

Answer 10

A short time e.g. 3 seconds for low order.

A longer time upwards of 10 seconds for higher order