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Evaluating performance-based assessment involves all of the following, except which one?

A) An emphasis on "doing"
B) Indirect evaluation methods
C) Open-ended activities
D) Higher-level thinking

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Question 32

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Which of the following illustrates the type of question that a teacher would ask during formative assessment?

A) When should I stop lecturing?
B) How should I grade students?
C) How should I change my instruction next time?
D) What type of group learning should I use?

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Question 33

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When asking questions during class, it is best to ask questions that can be answered with a yes or no.

Some performance assessments also require someone other than the teacher to evaluate the assessment. Who might this be?

Which of the following is not the best approach to sharing students' grades with parents?

Authentic assessment means evaluating students as precisely as possible.

Discuss general guidelines for effectively using performance assessment in the classroom.

How would you go about conducting formative assessment? What would you be looking for? What kind of behaviors would you engage in?

Distinguish a growth portfolio from a best-work portfolio.

The report card is the common method of communicating students' grades to their parents.

You are beginning to prepare for a parent-teacher conference to discuss concern over a student's declining grades. What little reminders would you go over for ensuring a productive conference?

Assessment experts agree that teachers should "go strictly by the numbers" when grading students to ensure that grades are objective reflections of student performance.

One of the current trends in assessment is to use multiple assessment methods. What are different assessments you might employ to measure students' reading ability?

_______ is a system whereby teachers compare a student's performance to that of his or her peers.

Which of the following is a strength of multiple-choice items?

Do you think grading should be abolished? Be sure to defend your answer by identifying the pros and cons of grading.

Validity refers to the extent to which a test does which of the following?

How would you score an essay on "the three great inventors of all time"?

The principal is in a quandary about the scores for the second batch of tests. Student scores on this last test are not at all similar to their scores on the test two weeks ago. What problem with testing is the principal confronted with?

Unlike other formats of assessment, growth portfolios are specially designed to show which of the following?