WGU D187 TASK 4 COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Performance-Based Tasks.
Answer: may also be useful for determining entry skills. In the area
of writing, for example, obtaining writing samples at the beginning
of instruction can establish a base for later assessments of progress.
This type of preassessment would be especially valuable if portfolios
of student work were to be maintained during the instruction.
◉ Formative Assessments.
Answer: (monitors learning progress)
To monitor learning progress during instruction
Example: End of lesson quiz
◉ Diagnostic Assessment.
Answer: (identifies causes of learning problems)
To diagnose learning difficulties during instruction
Example: Test of math computational skills necessary for learning
math
◉ Bloom's taxonomy.
,Answer: 6. Creating- Putting information together in an innovative
way.
5. Evaluating- Making judgments based on a set of guidelines.
4. Analysis- Breaking the concept into parts and understanding
3. Applying- Use knowledge gained in new ways.how each part is
related to one another.
2. Understanding- making sense of what you have learned.
1. Remembering- recalling relevant knowledge from long term
memory.
◉ Teachers' Standards for Student Assessment.
Answer: 1. Teachers should be skilled in choosing assessment
methods appropriate for instructional decisions. Skill in choosing
appropriate, useful, administratively convenient, technically
adequate, and fair assessment methods are prerequisite to good use
of information to support instructional decisions.
2. Teachers should be skilled in developing assessment methods
appropriate for instructional decisions. While teachers often use
published or other external assessment tools, the bulk of the
assessment information they use for decision making comes from
approaches they create and implement.
3. The teacher should be skilled in administering, scoring, and
interpreting the results of both externally produced and teacher-
produced assessment methods. It is not enough that teachers are
able to select and develop good assessment methods; they must also
be able to apply them properly.
, 4. Teachers should be skilled in using assessment results when
making decisions about individual students, planning teaching,
developing curriculum, and school improvement. Assessment
results are used to make educational decisions at several levels: in
the classroom about students, in the community about a school and
a school district, and in society, generally, about the purposes and
outcomes of the educational enterprise. Teachers play a vital role
when participating in decision making at each of these levels and
must be able to use assessment results effectively.
5. Teachers should be skilled in developing valid pupil grading
procedures that use pupil assessments. Grading students is an
important part of professional practice for teachers. Grading is
defined as indicating both a student's level of performance and a
teacher's valuing of that performance. The principles for using
assessments to obtain valid grades are known and teachers should
employ
◉ Selected Response Tests.
Answer: we can obtain a comprehensive coverage of a content
domain, and can administer, score, and interpret it easily, but we
sacrifice realism and some types of complexity (students are
selecting the response: multiple choice, matching, and true/false
items)
◉ Performance Assessment.
Answer: -high degree of realism
-high in complexity of the tasks we can assess
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Performance-Based Tasks.
Answer: may also be useful for determining entry skills. In the area
of writing, for example, obtaining writing samples at the beginning
of instruction can establish a base for later assessments of progress.
This type of preassessment would be especially valuable if portfolios
of student work were to be maintained during the instruction.
◉ Formative Assessments.
Answer: (monitors learning progress)
To monitor learning progress during instruction
Example: End of lesson quiz
◉ Diagnostic Assessment.
Answer: (identifies causes of learning problems)
To diagnose learning difficulties during instruction
Example: Test of math computational skills necessary for learning
math
◉ Bloom's taxonomy.
,Answer: 6. Creating- Putting information together in an innovative
way.
5. Evaluating- Making judgments based on a set of guidelines.
4. Analysis- Breaking the concept into parts and understanding
3. Applying- Use knowledge gained in new ways.how each part is
related to one another.
2. Understanding- making sense of what you have learned.
1. Remembering- recalling relevant knowledge from long term
memory.
◉ Teachers' Standards for Student Assessment.
Answer: 1. Teachers should be skilled in choosing assessment
methods appropriate for instructional decisions. Skill in choosing
appropriate, useful, administratively convenient, technically
adequate, and fair assessment methods are prerequisite to good use
of information to support instructional decisions.
2. Teachers should be skilled in developing assessment methods
appropriate for instructional decisions. While teachers often use
published or other external assessment tools, the bulk of the
assessment information they use for decision making comes from
approaches they create and implement.
3. The teacher should be skilled in administering, scoring, and
interpreting the results of both externally produced and teacher-
produced assessment methods. It is not enough that teachers are
able to select and develop good assessment methods; they must also
be able to apply them properly.
, 4. Teachers should be skilled in using assessment results when
making decisions about individual students, planning teaching,
developing curriculum, and school improvement. Assessment
results are used to make educational decisions at several levels: in
the classroom about students, in the community about a school and
a school district, and in society, generally, about the purposes and
outcomes of the educational enterprise. Teachers play a vital role
when participating in decision making at each of these levels and
must be able to use assessment results effectively.
5. Teachers should be skilled in developing valid pupil grading
procedures that use pupil assessments. Grading students is an
important part of professional practice for teachers. Grading is
defined as indicating both a student's level of performance and a
teacher's valuing of that performance. The principles for using
assessments to obtain valid grades are known and teachers should
employ
◉ Selected Response Tests.
Answer: we can obtain a comprehensive coverage of a content
domain, and can administer, score, and interpret it easily, but we
sacrifice realism and some types of complexity (students are
selecting the response: multiple choice, matching, and true/false
items)
◉ Performance Assessment.
Answer: -high degree of realism
-high in complexity of the tasks we can assess
