Excercises from Ch. 1 Flashcards
Pressures for accountability have resulted in increased school testing (T/F)
True
The rapid growth of minimum-competency testing requirements in the 1970s and early 1980s was stimulated by widely-help beliefs that high school graduates often lacked essential skill (T/F)
True
There is public support for the use of test results to compare schools (T/F)
True
Concerns that accountability leads to teaching to the test have contributed to calls for increased reliance on performance-based assessments.
True
Content standards specify the minimum score required to pass a test.
True
Define content standards
Specify “what the student needs to learn”
Define performance standards
Specify “how well” something is accomplished
The belief that testing and assessment shapes instruction has led to increased emphasis on performance assessments (agree or disagree)
Agree
Authentic assessment is routinely achieved by the introduction of performance standards (agree or disagree)
Disagree
Many proponents of performance assessments accept the idea that “what you test is what you get” (agree or disagree)
Agree
Tasks requiring extended responses have been the target of most criticisms of testing and assessment (agree or disagree)
Disagree
Anything that can be measured by a performance assessment task could also be measured by a multiple-choice test (agree or disagree)
Disagree
Advantages of performance based tasks
Demand more than simple memorization. Help the teacher decide if they are actually learning opposed to making the correct guess on a multiple choice test
Disadvantages of performance based tasks
They aren’t able to test as much material as well as the performance based tests are more time consuming.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress enables schools to compare the performance of their students to the nation as a whole (True/False)
False
NAEP provides a means of monitoring trends in the achievement of student over 25 years (T/F)
True
In addition to national results, NAEP now provides results for state-by-state comparisons on a voluntary basis (T/F)
True
NAEP collects achievement data for students by both age and grade level (T/F)
True
Comparisons of nations based on international assessments are as trustworthy as comparisons of regions of the country based on NAEP (T/F)
True
Comparability of results in an international assessments is assured by translating assessments to the languages spoken in different countries (T/F)
False
Briefly describe the actions of federal government that are likely to influence testing and assessment in the future
Will help lead schools to become technologically advanced - will help students access to use problem solving activities
Computers are especially useful for adaptive testing (Agree/Disagree)
A
Computer-administered simulations of problems enable the measurement of complex skills not readily measured by paper and pencil tests (Agree/Disagree)
A
Despite concerns about the quality of school programs, there has been a demand for :LESS testing and assessment (Agree/Disagree)
D
Computerized adaptive tests increase efficiency by reducing the number of items that need to be administered to achieve reliable measurement for a given test taker (Agree/Disagree)
D
The focus on the consequences of testing and assessment has decreased in recent years (Agree/Disagree)
D
The computer provides the potential to present simulations that can measure the process that students use to solve problems (Agree/Disagree)
A
Advantages of expanded use of computer based programs
Allows for tests to be changed depending on the type of student that you are trying to test
Dis - Advantages of expanded use of computer based programs
Any change in schools, especially those on the more technological side have the downfall of increased cost
Many of the criticisms if testing are the result of misinterpretation and misuse of test and scores (Disagree/Agrees)
A
A common misinterpretation of scores on tests and assessments is to assume they measure more than they do (Disagree/Agrees)
A
Testing does NOT have any desirable effects on students (Disagree/Agrees)
D
If a particular group receives lower scores on a test, it means the tests is biased against member of that group (Disagree/Agrees)
D
It is good practice to post scores on a test, it means the test is biased against member of that group (Disagree/Agrees)
D
Test anxiety may lower the performance of some students (Disagree/Agrees)
A
Advantages of legal requirements
The advantage is that everyone involved in the education of that child has easy access to view whether or not they’re struggling
Dis-Advantages of legal requirements
