Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
three domains of assessment - Correct Answer- Cognitive domain, affective domain, and
psychomotor domain
Cognitive Domain - Correct Answer- encompasses intellectual activities such as memorizing,
interpreting, applying knowledge, solving problems, and critical thinking
Affective Domain - Correct Answer- involves feeling, attitudes, values, interests, and
emotions
psycho motor domain - Correct Answer- includes physical activities where kids manipulate
objects like pens keyboards or zippers
Formative assessment - Correct Answer- feedback intended to alter and improve students
learning and behavior
Three phases of classroom assessment - Correct Answer- early assessment, instructional
assessment, summative assessment
Early assessment - Correct Answer- Things at begging of year teacher takes notes on like
social, academic, and behavior needs
Instructional assessment - Correct Answer- decisions about what will be taught what
materials how a lesson is progressing, what needs changed
Summative assessment - Correct Answer- formal decisions and recommendations like
grading, summarizing test results
assessment - Correct Answer- is a process of collecting, synthesizing, and interpreting
information in order to make a decision
, test - Correct Answer- a formal, systematic way of used to gather information about students
achievements or other cognitive skills.
selection items - Correct Answer- multiple choice, true and false
supply items - Correct Answer- requires students to construct a response
content standards - Correct Answer- define the knowledge and skills students are expected to
develop in a given subject are and grade level
performance standards - Correct Answer- how well students are expected to know the content
knowledge and how well they are expected to perform the skills in the content standards
opportunity to learn standards - Correct Answer- focuses on the quality of teachers
validity - Correct Answer- is the most important characteristic of assessment, is concerned
with the appropriateness of a decision based on the assessment information used to inform
that decision
reliability - Correct Answer- is concerned with the consistency of the assessment information
collected
Self-fulfilling prophesies - Correct Answer- expectations about a student lead the teacher to
act a certain way toward the student, causing the student to act that way
prejudgment - Correct Answer- occurs when a teachers prior knowledge, first impression, or
personal prejudiced and beliefs interfere with the ability to make fair and valid assessments of
a student
Two problems that occur during the early assessment that diminishes the validity of the
information teachers gather - Correct Answer- prejudgment and logical error
validity one word - Correct Answer- appropriateness