ED 340 Final Studyset-Multiple Choice Questions With Answers

ED 340 Final Studyset-Multiple Choice Questions With Answers Which of the following set of assessment activities will best facilitate a teacher's instructional planning? - Marking students' completed work and assigning grades on their unit test. - Observing students' attitudes and behavior and summarizing performance. - Reviewing the learning objectives, students' abilities, and past performance. - CORRECT ANSWER-Reviewing the learning objectives, students' abilities, and past performance. Why is diagnostic assessment done? - To ascertain the achievement level of the students. - To ascertain the effectiveness of teaching. - To ascertain the specific strengths and weaknesses of the students. - CORRECT ANSWER-To ascertain the specific strengths and weaknesses of the students. Which of these teacher management activities should occur after instruction? - Review the syllabus and the textbook being used. - Observe students completing their seatwork. - Review students' class assignments and homework results against the intended learning outcomes. - CORRECT ANSWER-Review students' class assignments and homework results against the intended learning outcomes. In selecting a particular technique to use in assessing students, to what should the teacher pay attention first? - Difficulty level of the assessment - Use to which the assessment result will be put - Students' knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER-Use to which the assessment result will be put When you measure students' performance, you are assessing them. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER-True Any time a teacher measures the performance of students, the teacher tests the students. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER-True Ms. Jonah observed her students during a science lab in order to determine what the students needed to learn to be effective in carrying out lab experiments. Which of the following best describes what Ms. Jonah did? - She tested her students' performance in the lab. - She assessed her students' performance in the lab. - She measured her students' performance in the lab. - CORRECT ANSWER-She assessed her students' performance in the lab. To evaluate students' performance in mathematics, a teacher must measure the students in mathematics. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER-False Which of the following statements best illustrates the concept evaluation? - Jane's teacher recorded her exam result, her homework results, and her grade on the semester project. - The teacher administered 100 multiple-choice items to his students at the end of the semester. - The performance of the school's students on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) was excellent. - At the end of the semester the student's scores ranged between 55 and 95. - CORRECT ANSWER-The performance of the school's students on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) was excellent. A teacher used the midterm exam to grade the students. Then the teacher reviewed students' performance in terms of their difficulties and strengths over the first half of the semester. This helped the teacher to plan his instructional activities for the second half of the semester. The midterm exam served as... - a summative evaluation of the students. - both (a) and (b) - a formative evaluation of the students. - CORRECT ANSWER-both (a) and (b) In making evaluative decisions about students, a teacher should be most mindful of - his/her reputation as a professional. - the consequences of the decisions for students. -the consequences of the decisions for the teacher. - CORRECT ANSWER-the consequences of the decisions for students. A science teacher discovered two weeks after students' grades were sent to parents that there was an error in the teacher's totaling of one student's marks. As a result, an incorrect grade was sent home for one student. What would you recommend to the teacher? - Since the grades have been sent home, the teacher should disregard the error. - The teacher should correct the error, award a new grade, and tell the student. - In order not to lose face before the student and the parents, the teacher should make an adjustment in the gradebook but not send home the grade change. - CORRECT ANSWER-The teacher should correct the error, award a new grade, and tell the student. Quality information in decision-making refers to information that is - appropriate for all decision-making situations. - relevant and reliable for the specific use to which it is to be put. - widely recognized as useful in and of itself. - CORRECT ANSWER-relevant and reliable for the specific use to which it is to be put. Which of the following actions violate(s) the professional responsibility of a teacher in the assessment of students? - Insisting that one should only use test items that are relevant and reliable. - Selecting a standardized test that is relevant to his/her purpose. - Reporting the scores to the students four weeks after a classroom test is administered. - Both (a) and (b) are violations of professional responsibility. - CORRECT ANSWER-Reporting the scores to the students four weeks after a classroom test is administered. Before administering his end-of-semester exam, a high school teacher hinted to his favorite students what they should expect on the exam. Which of the responsibilities of teachers has he violated? - Accommodating students - Communicating assessment results - Fairness to all students - CORRECT ANSWER-Fairness to all students It is a professional assessment responsibility of teachers to change their students' test results to reflect the teachers' belief about what the students are capable of doing. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER-False Which of the following activities does NOT exemplify a responsible professional action of a teacher who teaches a group of students who differ widely in their socioeconomic status? - Developing a comprehensive scoring rubric for assessing students' writing ability. - Developing a special version of a reading test for the disabled students in the class. - Assessing reading comprehension using only passages containing content exclusively within the experience of the high socioeconomic status students. - CORRECT ANSWER-Assessing reading comprehension using only passages containing content exclusively within the experience of the high socioeconomic status students. In selecting published material to assess students in your classroom, which of the following is the most important criterion? - The credibility of the publisher. - The technical quality of the items. - How well the tasks mat