WGU D184 - STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT | QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
• Standard based grading system -✓✓ Tracks progress toward achievement towards
standards and academic skills using proficiency scales.
• Traditional grading system -✓✓ Grades calculated based off %, partially based on
nonacademic factors.
• Focus statement -✓✓ Full standard statement with detail for guidance and
assessment.
• Measurement Topic -✓✓ Small set of critical topics or themes to focus on
• Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ What students UNDERSTAND
facts, ideas, information
(name and explain)
• Procedural Knowledge -✓✓ BE ABLE TO DO
Skills, strategies, processes
( act or perform tasks)
• Proficiency Scales -✓✓ Measure student progress towards standard mastery. Usually
a 4pt scale
4=advanced ( in depth application)
3=proficient ( understands target)
2=developing ( partial success)
1=beginning ( with help)
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓ Multiple assessments given to the same students over
time. Measures and records leaning over time to identify growth or gaps.
Eliminates error.
• Reliability -✓✓ Assessment accurately and constantly measures the same content for
ALL STUDENTS. ( same outcome )
• Validity -✓✓ Refers to the degree which the assessment is relevant to the content and
measures what it's supposed measure.
• Unidemensionality -✓✓ One aspect ( standard) measured at a time
• Assessment Blueprint -✓✓ Specifies assessment
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
• Standard based grading system -✓✓ Tracks progress toward achievement towards
standards and academic skills using proficiency scales.
• Traditional grading system -✓✓ Grades calculated based off %, partially based on
nonacademic factors.
• Focus statement -✓✓ Full standard statement with detail for guidance and
assessment.
• Measurement Topic -✓✓ Small set of critical topics or themes to focus on
• Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ What students UNDERSTAND
facts, ideas, information
(name and explain)
• Procedural Knowledge -✓✓ BE ABLE TO DO
Skills, strategies, processes
( act or perform tasks)
• Proficiency Scales -✓✓ Measure student progress towards standard mastery. Usually
a 4pt scale
4=advanced ( in depth application)
3=proficient ( understands target)
2=developing ( partial success)
1=beginning ( with help)
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓ Multiple assessments given to the same students over
time. Measures and records leaning over time to identify growth or gaps.
Eliminates error.
• Reliability -✓✓ Assessment accurately and constantly measures the same content for
ALL STUDENTS. ( same outcome )
• Validity -✓✓ Refers to the degree which the assessment is relevant to the content and
measures what it's supposed measure.
• Unidemensionality -✓✓ One aspect ( standard) measured at a time
• Assessment Blueprint -✓✓ Specifies assessment
