WGU FOT STUDY| 746 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Standardized tests are often used for? CORRECT ANSWERS: entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths Where does the school accountability movement come from? CORRECT ANSWERS: The public loss of confidence in education Reliability- CORRECT ANSWERS: relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured Valid reasons for assessing students- CORRECT ANSWERS: inform decision makers about student behaviors, monitor student progress toward a goal, screen students for specific purposes Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important- CORRECT ANSWERS: help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability, enable most students to be tested, enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation- CORRECT ANSWERS: accommodation changes the nature of the measurement Fair & ethical testing procedures- CORRECT ANSWERS: research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable, provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language, grade essays without regard for who wrote Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- CORRECT ANSWERS: assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores, compute glass grades using standardized test scores, compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes Criterion-Referenced Tests- CORRECT ANSWERS: assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge Norm-Referenced Tests- CORRECT ANSWERS: assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- CORRECT ANSWERS: scores are comparable across populations Formative Assessment- CORRECT ANSWERS: evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed Formative Assessment- CORRECT ANSWERS: continuous feedback to the teacher, test smaller units, monitor progress, informal Summative Assessment- CORRECT ANSWERS: final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective Summative Assessment- CORRECT ANSWERS: comprehensive measure of achievement Selected Response- CORRECT ANSWERS: test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers, without requiring the scorer to interpret their response Selected Response- CORRECT ANSWERS: limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement tests Constructed Response- CORRECT ANSWERS: requires student to supply rather than to select the answer Constructed response- CORRECT ANSWERS: difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning, depends on writing ability Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- CORRECT ANSWERS: achievement Eraut's major criticism of using reflection CORRECT ANSWERS: sometimes decision need to be made quickly, and there is not time for reflection Reflectivity- CORRECT ANSWERS: tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts Reflectivity- CORRECT ANSWERS: help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas, empower learners to take ownership of ideas Foreclosure- CORRECT ANSWERS: an adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices, not on his or her own Identity Diffusion- CORRECT ANSWERS: inability to d