Assessment and Evaluation Methods Flashcards

A selective high school entrance exam is designed to predict future academic success. This assessment is best classified as a(n):

Answer: Aptitude test

Aptitude tests are designed to predict a student's potential to succeed in future academic or professional settings.

Which of the following represents a threat to the validity of an assessment?

Answer: Including questions that measure unrelated skills

If a test includes items measuring skills unrelated to the target construct, it no longer accurately measures what it intends to.

A reading test assigns scores based on how students rank against each other, not against a fixed standard. This is a:

Answer: Norm-referenced test

Norm-referenced tests compare individual scores to the performance distribution of a norming group.

A teacher notices that her highest-achieving students are all from the same neighborhood. She suspects the test may unfairly favor students with certain cultural backgrounds. This concern relates to:

Answer: Assessment bias

Assessment bias occurs when test content, language, or format systematically disadvantages certain groups of students.

Which of the following BEST describes inter-rater reliability?

Answer: Two different scorers assign the same score to the same response

Inter-rater reliability measures agreement between two or more scorers evaluating the same piece of student work.

Exit tickets, think-pair-share, and quick polls are all examples of which assessment approach?

Answer: Informal formative assessment

These low-stakes, in-the-moment strategies are informal formative assessment tools that give teachers quick feedback on student understanding.

Which measure of central tendency is MOST affected by extreme outlier scores in a dataset?

Answer: Mean

The mean is calculated by summing all values and dividing by the count, so a very high or low outlier shifts it significantly.