Quality Control & Assurance Flashcards
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A teacher notices that student scores on a unit test are consistently low across all three of her class periods. What is the MOST appropriate first step?
Answer: Analyze which specific standards or skills had the lowest performance
Analyzing item-level data identifies which specific standards need reteaching before any instructional response.
Which type of validity evidence is gathered when a reading comprehension test is reviewed by curriculum experts to ensure items match grade-level standards?
Answer: Content validity
Content validity is established by expert review confirming that test items adequately represent the intended domain or standards.
A school uses the same end-of-unit exam for all sections of a course. Which quality assurance purpose does this BEST serve?
Answer: Ensuring comparability of student performance data across classrooms
Common assessments ensure that results can be compared across teachers and classrooms without bias from varying assessment difficulty.
During a lesson, a teacher asks students to give a thumbs up, thumbs sideways, or thumbs down to indicate their understanding. This technique is BEST classified as:
Answer: Informal formative check
Quick, in-the-moment checks like the thumbs technique are informal formative assessments used to gauge immediate understanding.
A district wants to determine whether its new math curriculum is more effective than the previous one. Which approach provides the STRONGEST evidence?
Answer: Using pre- and post-test data with a comparison group
Pre/post data with a comparison group controls for prior knowledge and outside factors, providing the strongest causal evidence of curriculum effectiveness.
Which term describes the degree to which an assessment consistently produces the same results when administered under the same conditions?
Answer: Reliability
Reliability refers to the consistency of assessment results across repeated administrations or raters.
A teacher uses exit tickets at the end of each lesson to adjust the next day's instruction. This practice BEST reflects which principle of quality assurance in education?
Answer: Using assessment to inform and improve instruction
Using exit ticket data to plan next-day instruction exemplifies assessment-informed teaching, a core QA principle.