Assessment Design Flashcards

What is the primary purpose of a formative assessment in classroom instruction?

Answer: To monitor learning and guide instruction

Formative assessments provide ongoing feedback that teachers and students use to adjust learning strategies.

Ohio's Learning Standards are used in assessment design primarily to ensure that:

Answer: Assessment tasks align to grade-level expectations

Aligning assessments to Ohio's Learning Standards ensures items reflect what students are expected to know and do at each grade level.

Which type of score interpretation compares a student's performance to a predetermined standard of mastery?

Answer: Criterion-referenced

Criterion-referenced scores indicate whether a student has met a defined performance standard, independent of how others scored.

A test blueprint (table of specifications) is used in assessment design to:

Answer: Map items to content standards and cognitive levels

A test blueprint ensures appropriate coverage of content standards and cognitive demands across the assessment.

Which practice BEST supports the design of culturally responsive assessments?

Answer: Reviewing items for cultural bias and relevance

Reviewing and revising items for cultural bias helps ensure all students have fair opportunity to demonstrate knowledge.

Inter-rater reliability in assessment scoring refers to:

Answer: Agreement between two or more scorers evaluating the same response

Inter-rater reliability measures the degree to which independent scorers assign the same score to the same student work.

A school designs an assessment where students compile work samples over a semester to demonstrate growth. This is BEST described as a:

Answer: Portfolio assessment

Portfolio assessments collect multiple evidence samples over time to document learning and growth.