WGU D184: STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT EXAM FOR
THE OBJECTIVE ASSESS- MENT (OA) WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION ASSURED SUCCESS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is the benefit of a standard base grading system for high achieving students?
Answer:
Instruction can be easily adjusted to provide new, more complex learning targets.
Question:
2. How is a narrative based system different than a standard base grading system?
Answer:
The standards-based grading system uses proficiency scores, but the narrative grading system does not.
Question:
3. Which factor distinguishes norm-referenced grading from standard-base grading?
Answer:
Performance of the rest of the class
Question:
4. What is a benefit of using standard base grading compared to norm-reference grading?
Answer:
Teachers are able to help students focus on learning, goals and track their progress.
Question:
5. Why do teachers only grade student work related to the achievement of learning targets and
standards-base grading systems?
Answer:
Teachers are able to help students focus on learning, goals and track their progress.
Question:
6. A grading scale reflects the following details: 4- Advanced 3- Meets Expectations 2- Partially Mastery
1- Little or No Mastery Which grading system does this scale represent?
Answer:
Standards based grading
Question:
7. How do standards space grading systems support, struggling students compared to other common
grading systems?
Answer:
By allowing students to redo lessons and assignments as many times as necessary
, Question:
8. What is one difference between using criterion reference scoring and standard base grading systems as
opposed to using non-reference scoring?
Answer:
Criterion-reference scoring measure students progress towards mastery, a specific criteria, while
norm-reference scoring measures progress related to percentiles.
Question:
9. What is a criticism of standards-based grading systems?
Answer:
They do not reflect students, proficiency and soft skills, such as time management and creativity
Question:
10. Which problematic assessment practice does standards-based grading help teachers avoid?
Answer:
Tagging multiple standards
Question:
11. Which statement is a criticism of standards base grading system?
Answer:
Assessments are too narrowly focused
Question:
12. How are measurements topics beneficial to teachers
Answer:
They help teachers identify a small set of themes to focus on during instruction
Question:
13. An English language arts teacher is unpacking the following standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.10: "
by the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems for grade 6-8
complexity, proficiently with scaffolding as needed, at the end of the range. Which term reflect the content
of the standard?
Answer:
Stories, dramas, poems
Question:
14. A teacher must determine a relevant focus statement based on the standard for US history course: " the
student understands the difference between economic, technological, and human resources of both sides of
a conflict." Which statement reflects the standard ?
Answer:
Knows about the materials that contribute to an event and it's outcome
Question:
15. Which focused statement represents procedural knowledge?
Answer:
Composes sentences using a keyboard
THE OBJECTIVE ASSESS- MENT (OA) WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION ASSURED SUCCESS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is the benefit of a standard base grading system for high achieving students?
Answer:
Instruction can be easily adjusted to provide new, more complex learning targets.
Question:
2. How is a narrative based system different than a standard base grading system?
Answer:
The standards-based grading system uses proficiency scores, but the narrative grading system does not.
Question:
3. Which factor distinguishes norm-referenced grading from standard-base grading?
Answer:
Performance of the rest of the class
Question:
4. What is a benefit of using standard base grading compared to norm-reference grading?
Answer:
Teachers are able to help students focus on learning, goals and track their progress.
Question:
5. Why do teachers only grade student work related to the achievement of learning targets and
standards-base grading systems?
Answer:
Teachers are able to help students focus on learning, goals and track their progress.
Question:
6. A grading scale reflects the following details: 4- Advanced 3- Meets Expectations 2- Partially Mastery
1- Little or No Mastery Which grading system does this scale represent?
Answer:
Standards based grading
Question:
7. How do standards space grading systems support, struggling students compared to other common
grading systems?
Answer:
By allowing students to redo lessons and assignments as many times as necessary
, Question:
8. What is one difference between using criterion reference scoring and standard base grading systems as
opposed to using non-reference scoring?
Answer:
Criterion-reference scoring measure students progress towards mastery, a specific criteria, while
norm-reference scoring measures progress related to percentiles.
Question:
9. What is a criticism of standards-based grading systems?
Answer:
They do not reflect students, proficiency and soft skills, such as time management and creativity
Question:
10. Which problematic assessment practice does standards-based grading help teachers avoid?
Answer:
Tagging multiple standards
Question:
11. Which statement is a criticism of standards base grading system?
Answer:
Assessments are too narrowly focused
Question:
12. How are measurements topics beneficial to teachers
Answer:
They help teachers identify a small set of themes to focus on during instruction
Question:
13. An English language arts teacher is unpacking the following standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.10: "
by the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems for grade 6-8
complexity, proficiently with scaffolding as needed, at the end of the range. Which term reflect the content
of the standard?
Answer:
Stories, dramas, poems
Question:
14. A teacher must determine a relevant focus statement based on the standard for US history course: " the
student understands the difference between economic, technological, and human resources of both sides of
a conflict." Which statement reflects the standard ?
Answer:
Knows about the materials that contribute to an event and it's outcome
Question:
15. Which focused statement represents procedural knowledge?
Answer:
Composes sentences using a keyboard