WGU D184 Standard-Based Assessment OBEJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS BANK AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
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<RECENT VERSION>
1. Standard based grading system - ANSWER ✔ Tracks progress toward
achievement towards standards and academic skills using proficiency scales.
2. Traditional grading system - ANSWER ✔ Grades calculated based off %,
partially based on nonacademic factors.
3. Focus statement - ANSWER ✔ Full standard statement with detail for
guidance and assessment.
4. Measurement Topic - ANSWER ✔ Small set of critical topics or themes to
focus on
5. Declarative Knowledge - ANSWER ✔ What students UNDERSTAND
facts, ideas, information
(name and explain)
6. Procedural Knowledge - ANSWER ✔ BE ABLE TO DO
Skills, strategies, processes
( act or perform tasks)
7. Proficiency Scales - ANSWER ✔ Measure student progress towards
standard mastery. Usually a 4pt scale
4=advanced ( in depth application)
3=proficient ( understands target)
2=developing ( partial success)
1=beginning ( with help)
,8. Parallel Assessments - ANSWER ✔ Multiple assessments given to the same
students over time. Measures and records leaning over time to identify
growth or gaps.
Eliminates error.
9. Reliability - ANSWER ✔ Assessment accurately and constantly measures
the same content for ALL STUDENTS. ( same outcome )
10.Validity - ANSWER ✔ Refers to the degree which the assessment is
relevant to the content and measures what it's supposed measure.
11.Unidemensionality - ANSWER ✔ One aspect ( standard) measured at a time
12.Assessment Blueprint - ANSWER ✔ Specifies assessment
skills, assessment types, # of assessments
13.Proved Proper coverage on blueprint - ANSWER ✔ % of times and
difficulty level for each topic
14.Increases blueprint complexity - ANSWER ✔ Item types ( m.c, essay,
matching )
15.Response code scoring - ANSWER ✔ CC ( completely correct)
I ( incorrect)
HP ( high partial accuracy)
LP ( low partial accuracy)
No points, just codes/ letters to label proficiency
16.Point scoring - ANSWER ✔ Assign points to each item, proficiency
determine by %
17.By what other names is a focus statement known? - ANSWER ✔ - big ideas
- enduring understandings
- objectives or subobjectives
- learning goals
- learning targets
,18.What is the purpose of unpacking standards? - ANSWER ✔ - designing
instruction and assessment
- to adequately measure proficiency for each student
Using the following standard, given an example focus statement and
measurement topic:
19.Understands that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth - ANSWER ✔
FOCUS STATEMENT
knows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth
MEASUREMENT TOPIC
the Sun and the Earth
20.What is declarative knowledge? - ANSWER ✔ students will
UNDERSTAND facts, ideas and information
ex: how many letters are in the English alphabet
21.What is procedural knowledge? - ANSWER ✔ students will BE ABLE TO
apply skills, strategies, processes
ex: how many doors are in your house?
22.In a standards-based assessment, what contains the important information
from an unpacked standard and is important enough to assess multiple times
to determine student mastery? - ANSWER ✔ measurement topic
23.What are the three steps to writing focus statements? - ANSWER ✔ 1-
identify the academic standard
2- unpack the standard
3- write focus statements
24.A student achieved the following assessment scores for a measurement
topic, based on a four-point proficiency scale:
2.0
2.0
2.5
3.0
, 4.0
What is the student's summative score, rounded to the nearest tenth, using
the average model?
2.7
2.9
3.0
3.3 - ANSWER ✔ 2.7
25.Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific
ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language
that pertains to time, sequence, & cause/effect
4.0The student will evaluate the steps involved in a scientific procedure &
critique the cause and effect of the steps
3.0The student will organize scientific concepts & analyze the relationships
using key details
2.0The student will interpret the sequence & relationship of a series of steps
in a scientific process
1.0The student will identify the steps in a scientific process
Which assessment item corresponds to 3.0
Apply key details to classify given scientific topics & examine the
relationships
Generate guidelines to complete a scientific procedure, including the
cause&effect relationship
Recognize and list key steps in a scientific process
Summarize the reasons for completing each step in a scientific process -
ANSWER ✔ Apply key details to classify given scientific topics and
examine the relationships.
26.Use geographic tools, resources to analyze Earth's human systems,physical
features to investigate, address geographic issues
4.0The student will construct a visual representation of a specific Earth
system & its features and will assess the environmental impact
3.0The student will analyze a specific Earth system & its features and will
explain the environmental characteristics
2.0The student will classify the physical features of a specific Earth system
1.0The student will recognize physical features of a specific Earth system
Which item corresponds to 2.0
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS BANK AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Standard based grading system - ANSWER ✔ Tracks progress toward
achievement towards standards and academic skills using proficiency scales.
2. Traditional grading system - ANSWER ✔ Grades calculated based off %,
partially based on nonacademic factors.
3. Focus statement - ANSWER ✔ Full standard statement with detail for
guidance and assessment.
4. Measurement Topic - ANSWER ✔ Small set of critical topics or themes to
focus on
5. Declarative Knowledge - ANSWER ✔ What students UNDERSTAND
facts, ideas, information
(name and explain)
6. Procedural Knowledge - ANSWER ✔ BE ABLE TO DO
Skills, strategies, processes
( act or perform tasks)
7. Proficiency Scales - ANSWER ✔ Measure student progress towards
standard mastery. Usually a 4pt scale
4=advanced ( in depth application)
3=proficient ( understands target)
2=developing ( partial success)
1=beginning ( with help)
,8. Parallel Assessments - ANSWER ✔ Multiple assessments given to the same
students over time. Measures and records leaning over time to identify
growth or gaps.
Eliminates error.
9. Reliability - ANSWER ✔ Assessment accurately and constantly measures
the same content for ALL STUDENTS. ( same outcome )
10.Validity - ANSWER ✔ Refers to the degree which the assessment is
relevant to the content and measures what it's supposed measure.
11.Unidemensionality - ANSWER ✔ One aspect ( standard) measured at a time
12.Assessment Blueprint - ANSWER ✔ Specifies assessment
skills, assessment types, # of assessments
13.Proved Proper coverage on blueprint - ANSWER ✔ % of times and
difficulty level for each topic
14.Increases blueprint complexity - ANSWER ✔ Item types ( m.c, essay,
matching )
15.Response code scoring - ANSWER ✔ CC ( completely correct)
I ( incorrect)
HP ( high partial accuracy)
LP ( low partial accuracy)
No points, just codes/ letters to label proficiency
16.Point scoring - ANSWER ✔ Assign points to each item, proficiency
determine by %
17.By what other names is a focus statement known? - ANSWER ✔ - big ideas
- enduring understandings
- objectives or subobjectives
- learning goals
- learning targets
,18.What is the purpose of unpacking standards? - ANSWER ✔ - designing
instruction and assessment
- to adequately measure proficiency for each student
Using the following standard, given an example focus statement and
measurement topic:
19.Understands that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth - ANSWER ✔
FOCUS STATEMENT
knows the relationship between the Sun and the Earth
MEASUREMENT TOPIC
the Sun and the Earth
20.What is declarative knowledge? - ANSWER ✔ students will
UNDERSTAND facts, ideas and information
ex: how many letters are in the English alphabet
21.What is procedural knowledge? - ANSWER ✔ students will BE ABLE TO
apply skills, strategies, processes
ex: how many doors are in your house?
22.In a standards-based assessment, what contains the important information
from an unpacked standard and is important enough to assess multiple times
to determine student mastery? - ANSWER ✔ measurement topic
23.What are the three steps to writing focus statements? - ANSWER ✔ 1-
identify the academic standard
2- unpack the standard
3- write focus statements
24.A student achieved the following assessment scores for a measurement
topic, based on a four-point proficiency scale:
2.0
2.0
2.5
3.0
, 4.0
What is the student's summative score, rounded to the nearest tenth, using
the average model?
2.7
2.9
3.0
3.3 - ANSWER ✔ 2.7
25.Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific
ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language
that pertains to time, sequence, & cause/effect
4.0The student will evaluate the steps involved in a scientific procedure &
critique the cause and effect of the steps
3.0The student will organize scientific concepts & analyze the relationships
using key details
2.0The student will interpret the sequence & relationship of a series of steps
in a scientific process
1.0The student will identify the steps in a scientific process
Which assessment item corresponds to 3.0
Apply key details to classify given scientific topics & examine the
relationships
Generate guidelines to complete a scientific procedure, including the
cause&effect relationship
Recognize and list key steps in a scientific process
Summarize the reasons for completing each step in a scientific process -
ANSWER ✔ Apply key details to classify given scientific topics and
examine the relationships.
26.Use geographic tools, resources to analyze Earth's human systems,physical
features to investigate, address geographic issues
4.0The student will construct a visual representation of a specific Earth
system & its features and will assess the environmental impact
3.0The student will analyze a specific Earth system & its features and will
explain the environmental characteristics
2.0The student will classify the physical features of a specific Earth system
1.0The student will recognize physical features of a specific Earth system
Which item corresponds to 2.0
