Designing Instruction and Assessment Flashcards
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A teacher is designing a long-term unit and wants to ensure assessments accurately measure the intended standards. The best way to ensure this is to check for:
Answer: Alignment between assessment items and learning objectives
Assessment validity depends on whether items directly measure the stated learning objectives; misaligned items produce misleading data.
Which of the following is an example of criterion-referenced assessment?
Answer: Reporting whether a student met a defined proficiency standard
Criterion-referenced assessments measure performance against a fixed standard, not against other students.
A teacher wants to activate prior knowledge at the start of a new unit. Which strategy is most appropriate?
Answer: Using a KWL chart to surface what students already know
KWL charts explicitly reveal students' prior knowledge and misconceptions, helping the teacher connect new content to existing schema.
A teacher plans instruction using the concrete–representational–abstract (CRA) sequence. This approach is especially beneficial for:
Answer: Students learning abstract mathematical concepts for the first time
CRA progressively moves students from hands-on objects to visual models to symbolic notation, building conceptual understanding.
A teacher notices that half the class answered the same question incorrectly on a unit test. The most appropriate immediate response is to:
Answer: Reteach the concept using a different instructional approach
When a large portion of students miss the same item, it signals a gap in instruction that requires reteaching, not workarounds.
Which of the following describes an instructional objective written at the analysis level of Bloom's Taxonomy?
Answer: Students will compare how photosynthesis and cellular respiration are related.
Analysis involves breaking information into parts and examining relationships, such as comparing two processes.
A teacher provides sentence frames and graphic organizers to help ELL students complete the same writing task as their peers. These supports are best described as:
Answer: Scaffolds that provide temporary support toward full independence
Scaffolds are temporary supports that help students access grade-level work and are gradually removed as proficiency grows.