SED 206 CHAPTER 5 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

SED 206 CHAPTER 5 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. ________ are any information gathered and collected through your research in the assessment process.
Answer:
Data

Question:
2. A child's actual age is referred to as the:
Answer:
Chronological age

Question:
3. When doing an assessment, why calculate age as opposed to just asking children their age?
a. Many children do not know when they were born.
b. Children think they know their date of birth but are incorrect.
c. Ages (when doing psychoeducational assessment) are broken down into years, months and days.
d. All of the above are reasons to calculate age as opposed to just asking children their age
Answer:
D

Question:
4. A student is ten years, four months and twenty days old. How would her age be expressed numerically?
Answer:
10-0

Question:
5. A student is tested on April 16, 2011. His date of birth is February 12, 2001. His age at the time of
testing is:
Answer:
10-2-4

Question:
6. A student is tested on July 10, 2010. His date of birth is April 20, 1998. His age at the time of testing is:
Answer:
12-2-20

Question:
7. A student is tested on August 25, 2010. His date of birth is October 20, 2003. His age at the time of
testing is:
Answer:
6-10-5

, Question:
8. A student is tested on September 13, 2007. His date of birth is October 15, 1996. His age at the time of
testing is:
Answer:
10-10-28

Question:
9. The _______ indicates the number of items correctly answered on a given test. In almost all cases, it is
the first score a teacher obtains when interpreting data.
Answer:
Raw score

Question:
10. A student gets 22 correct and 8 wrong on a test. His raw score is
Answer:
22

Question:
11. On a 20 word spelling test, a student got 6 wrong. His raw score is:
Answer:
14

Question:
12. A percentile rank of 95 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students in
the class.
Answer:
95

Question:
13. A percentile rank of 40 means that you did as well as or better than _______ percent of the students in
the class.
Answer:
40

Question:
14. The _______ percentile normally signifies the average ranking or average performance.
Answer:
50th

Question:
15. Quartiles divide scores into ______ units:
Answer:
4

Question:
16. Deciles divide scores into ______ equal units.