Question 1

If classroom teachers set out to improve their own tests using judgmental approaches, which of the following review criteria is NOT a factor teachers ought to consider?

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The likelihood that parents will recognize the suitability of an item's content coverage

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Each item's likely contribution to a valid score-based inference about a student's status

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Adherence to item-specific guidelines and general item-writing rules

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Absence of any significant gaps in a test's content coverage

Question 2

Which of the following indices is most commonly used to represent an item’s difficulty?

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p value

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Discrimination index

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Correlation coefficient

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Distractor efficiency

Question 3

For tests intended to provide norm-referenced interpretations, which of the following kinds of items should be sought?

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Positive discriminators

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Nondiscriminators

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Negative discriminators

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None of the above

Question 4

Which of the following is the most often misinterpreted score-interpretation indicator used with standardized tests?

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grade-equivalent score

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raw score

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percentile

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stanine

Question 5

Consider the following statements regarding test-preparation. Which one is NOT accurate?

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If teachers simultaneously direct their instruction toward a test’s specific items and the curricular aim on which the test is based, this constitutes appropriate test preparation.

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Appropriate test-preparation will simultaneously improve students’ test scores as well as students’ mastery of the knowledge and/or skills represented by the test.

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If relatively brief, generalized test-taking preparation focused on such skills as how to manage one’s time during test-taking is quite appropriate.

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If teachers adhere to the ethical norms of the education profession while preparing their students, this is an important ingredient in appropriate test-preparation activities.

Question 6

Which of the following scenarios is both ethical and educationally defensible?

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The teacher provide students with varied instruction on identifying types of soil by conducting a project and group work. They are assessed through rubrics, multiple choice tests, and essays.

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To help students better understand the concept of multiplication in word problems, the teacher instructs students on the various steps that are necessary to answer each question.

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None of the above.

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The teacher conducts a unit on poetry. Students spend time reading various types of poems. The teacher assesses the students by providing them with multiple choice questions from last year's STAAR test.

Question 7

Which of the following is a correct explanation of the split and switch design as a pretest/posttest assessment?

Accepted Answer

The split and switch design allows the pretest/posttest to be given closer together.

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The split and switch design is only effective in the mathematics classroom.

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This assessment is not as valid as other types of pretest/posttest designs.

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The split and switch design requires that one form of the test be given to the top students and another to the bottom students.

Question 8

Goal Attainment grading has four steps necessary to arrive at a final grade. Which of the following is NOT one of these steps?

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Item-analysis of individual responses

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Choosing goal-attainment evidence

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Clarifying curricular aims

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Weighting goal-attainment evidence

Question 9

What is explained in the Brimijoin et al. (2003) article?

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The author discusses differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all learners in the classroom.

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The author describes the current state of education as a difficult situation in the assessment should be revised to better meet the needs of students.

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The author explains the importance of using standardized assessments to prepare students for the future.

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The article explains how formative assessment is best used for helping lower ability students to understand.

Question 10

Three of the following are important rules to be followed in the assessment of student affect. Which one is NOT?

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Assess affect on at least a bi-weekly basis.

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Any affective variable being measured should be noncontroversial

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All of the inferences are group-focused rather than individual-focused.

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Make students’ responses anonymous.

Question 11

Which of the following would be the best topic to assess with a multifocus affective inventory?

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Students’ interests in different subjects

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Students’ abilities to perform routine physical skills

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Students’ skills in solving complex geometric problems

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Students’ ability to write a persuasive essay

Question 12

The most appropriate way for classroom teachers to monitor their students’ affect is through the use of:

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Anonymously completed self-report inventories

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Affectively oriented performance tests

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Anonymously completed personalized essays

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Teacher observations of affect-related student behaviors

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