CHE Assessment Techniques & Professional Development 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A hospitality instructor administers the same skills test twice within one week and gets similar results. This demonstrates:
- Validity
- Reliability (Correct answer)
- Authenticity
- Scaffolding
Correct answer: Reliability
Reliability refers to the consistency of assessment results across repeated administrations under similar conditions.
Question 2: Which portfolio component is MOST useful for demonstrating a CHE candidate's professional growth over time?
- A single lesson plan submitted once
- A collection of reflective teaching journals spanning multiple semesters (Correct answer)
- One student evaluation form
- An attendance record
Correct answer: A collection of reflective teaching journals spanning multiple semesters
Reflective teaching journals collected over time show evolving practice, which is central to demonstrating professional development for CHE.
Question 3: In criterion-referenced assessment, a student's grade is determined by:
- How they perform relative to classmates
- Whether they meet a pre-defined standard of performance (Correct answer)
- The class average score
- A bell-curve distribution
Correct answer: Whether they meet a pre-defined standard of performance
Criterion-referenced assessments measure performance against fixed standards rather than comparing students to each other.
Question 4: An educator wants to assess communication skills during a mock hotel guest complaint scenario. Which assessment type is MOST appropriate?
- Fill-in-the-blank written test
- Authentic performance assessment (Correct answer)
- Standardized multiple-choice exam
- True/false exercise
Correct answer: Authentic performance assessment
Authentic performance assessments place students in realistic scenarios, making them ideal for evaluating applied communication skills.
Question 5: The MAIN benefit of self-assessment for hospitality students is that it:
- Reduces the instructor's grading workload
- Builds metacognitive awareness and ownership of learning (Correct answer)
- Eliminates the need for instructor feedback
- Standardizes grades across the class
Correct answer: Builds metacognitive awareness and ownership of learning
Self-assessment develops metacognition by requiring students to critically reflect on their own performance and learning strategies.
Question 6: A CHE educator attends a national hospitality education conference and presents a session on innovative teaching. This activity counts toward professional development because it:
- Earns hotel reward points
- Contributes to the field and demonstrates currency in pedagogy (Correct answer)
- Satisfies a state licensing requirement only
- Replaces the need for classroom teaching hours
Correct answer: Contributes to the field and demonstrates currency in pedagogy
Presenting at conferences demonstrates expertise, advances the profession, and reflects the CHE's expectation of ongoing scholarly and pedagogical engagement.
Question 7: When writing a test item for a hospitality finance course, which question format BEST tests application-level learning?
- 'Define RevPAR' (definition recall)
- 'List three cost categories' (recall)
- 'A hotel's occupancy is 78% and ADR is $120; calculate RevPAR' (calculation scenario) (Correct answer)
- 'True or False: ADR stands for Average Daily Rate'
Correct answer: 'A hotel's occupancy is 78% and ADR is $120; calculate RevPAR' (calculation scenario)
Scenario-based calculation questions require students to apply formulas and concepts to new situations, targeting the Application level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
CHE Assessment Techniques & Professional Development 3
A hospitality instructor administers the same skills test twice within one week and gets similar results.
This demonstrates: