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Assessment and Evaluation Methods Flashcards

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  1. A teacher wants to measure how well students can apply knowledge to new situations rather than just recall facts. Which assessment type best serves this goal?

    Answer: Performance-based assessment

    Performance-based assessments require students to demonstrate skills by applying knowledge to real or simulated tasks.

  2. Which of the following best describes the purpose of a diagnostic assessment?

    Answer: To identify students' existing knowledge and gaps before instruction

    Diagnostic assessments are administered before a unit begins to reveal what students already know and where gaps exist.

  3. On a standardized test, a student scores at the 72nd percentile. What does this mean?

    Answer: The student scored higher than 72% of the norm group

    A percentile rank indicates the percentage of test-takers in the norm group who scored at or below that student's score.

  4. Which assessment strategy is MOST closely associated with ongoing feedback during the learning process?

    Answer: Formative assessment

    Formative assessment is used continuously during instruction to monitor progress and guide teaching adjustments.

  5. A school uses a rubric to score student essays. What is the PRIMARY advantage of using a rubric?

    Answer: It ensures consistent and transparent scoring criteria

    Rubrics provide clear, predefined criteria that reduce subjectivity and make expectations transparent to students and scorers alike.

  6. When an assessment measures exactly what it is intended to measure, it is said to have high:

    Answer: Validity

    Validity refers to how accurately an assessment measures the specific knowledge or skill it is designed to test.

  7. A student takes the same test twice within one week and receives very different scores each time. This assessment likely has low:

    Answer: Reliability

    Reliability means an assessment produces consistent results across repeated administrations under similar conditions.

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