Assessment & Evaluation Techniques Flashcards

A teacher notices students began practicing oral presentations more after a speaking component was added to the final exam. This effect is best described as:

Answer: Positive washback

Washback is the influence a test has on teaching and learning, and positive washback encourages beneficial practice.

In item analysis, an item answered correctly by 90% of students has an item facility (difficulty) index of:

Answer: 0.90

Item facility is the proportion of test takers answering correctly, so 90% equals 0.90.

An item is answered correctly more often by low scorers than by high scorers. What does this indicate?

Answer: Negative discrimination

Negative discrimination means the item favors weaker students, signaling a flawed item that should be revised.

Which assessment approach involves the examiner providing graduated prompts during the test to measure a learner's potential to learn?

Answer: Dynamic assessment

Dynamic assessment, based on Vygotsky's ZPD, integrates mediation to gauge learning potential.

A math test for ELLs contains long, idiom-heavy word problems, lowering ELL scores regardless of math skill. This is an example of:

Answer: Construct-irrelevant variance

Language complexity unrelated to the math construct introduces construct-irrelevant variance that distorts results.

Which practice most directly increases inter-rater reliability when scoring ELL essays?

Answer: Norming raters with anchor papers and a shared rubric

Rater training with anchor papers and a common rubric aligns scorers and improves consistency.

A test in which students fill in every 7th deleted word of a passage is known as a:

Answer: Cloze test

A fixed-ratio cloze deletes every nth word to assess integrative reading and grammar ability.