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EDF 4430 Questions and Correct Answers/
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Ms. Jones wants to ensure that her students are acquiring all of the
skills and knowledge outlined in the learning objectives during a
science lesson. She decides to give the students two non-graded in-
class quizzes during the week-long lesson to assess their progress and
inform the students of their performance prior to a comprehensive test
that is to be administered at the end of the week. These quizzes are
being used as what kind of assessment?
Ans: Formative Assessment
From an instructional perspective, the primary purpose and functions
of classroom assessment is to
Ans: Obtain evidence of student learning and progress
Effective classroom assessment should include none of these:
Ans: unspecified outcomes or learning endpoints, traditional
and convenient assessment measures, minimal training and
experience requirements
Mr. Miller, the 10th grade social studies teacher, is known to cover
material that is not part of the content that students are expected to
know and master at this grade level. He tells stories and provides
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personal vignettes which are always interesting. However, as a group,
his students do poorly on the state mandated testing in the area of
social studies and history. Given this scenario, what is the most likely
contributor to the students' poor social studies test performance?
Ans: poor instruction-learning-assessment alignment
Ethics involve:
Ans: personal conduct based on professional standards of
practice and Self-review and evaluation of one's behavior
A teaching colleague recently attended a half-day workshop on a new
computer-based teaching method. This teacher, without any
additional training, experience, or supervision, is now using this
method exclusively for all instruction in the classroom. What
professional area is this teacher likely disregarding?
Ans: instructional competency
As part of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)Act initiated in 2002, each
state is required to collect standardized achievement test results for
students in grades that span from the elementary and intermediate
grade levels to the high school level. True or False?
Ans: True
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The instructional process of starting a lesson at the current
knowledge/understanding level of the students with the intent of
moving them to the next or higher level of understanding and
proficiency.
Ans: Scaffolding
Summative assessment must link directly with the stated learning
objectives of the lesson(s) to obtain the best and most accurate testing
performance. True or False?
Ans: True
What students are going to be expected to learn and be able to do
because of the instruction they receive is directly connected to
Ans: learning targets
All of the following are examples of questions self-assessing students
might ask themselves EXCEPT...
A) "What can I do to improve the paper I am writing?"
B) "Did I understand what I just read?"
C) "How many of my classmates understand this chapter?"
D) "Does this information connect with what was covered yesterday?"
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Ans: C) "How many of my classmates understand this chapter?"
Mr. Thomas, the 8th grade Algebra teacher, has reviewed the in-class
worksheets that are handed out and collected weekly. He marks
whether each problem is correctly solved.ccording to Bloom, in
addition to performance feedback, what else needs to be provided to
the students, especially those that missed an item or items on the
worksheet
Ans: corrective feedback
Summative assessment is designed to
A) inform instruction as it is occurring
B) serve as an informal evaluation
C) be provided throughout the entire lesson
D) none of the above
Ans: D) none of the above
Pre-assessment should take place at what time during a lesson?
Ans: prior to the start of the lesson
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EDF 4430 Questions and Correct Answers/
Latest Update / Already Graded
Ms. Jones wants to ensure that her students are acquiring all of the
skills and knowledge outlined in the learning objectives during a
science lesson. She decides to give the students two non-graded in-
class quizzes during the week-long lesson to assess their progress and
inform the students of their performance prior to a comprehensive test
that is to be administered at the end of the week. These quizzes are
being used as what kind of assessment?
Ans: Formative Assessment
From an instructional perspective, the primary purpose and functions
of classroom assessment is to
Ans: Obtain evidence of student learning and progress
Effective classroom assessment should include none of these:
Ans: unspecified outcomes or learning endpoints, traditional
and convenient assessment measures, minimal training and
experience requirements
Mr. Miller, the 10th grade social studies teacher, is known to cover
material that is not part of the content that students are expected to
know and master at this grade level. He tells stories and provides
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personal vignettes which are always interesting. However, as a group,
his students do poorly on the state mandated testing in the area of
social studies and history. Given this scenario, what is the most likely
contributor to the students' poor social studies test performance?
Ans: poor instruction-learning-assessment alignment
Ethics involve:
Ans: personal conduct based on professional standards of
practice and Self-review and evaluation of one's behavior
A teaching colleague recently attended a half-day workshop on a new
computer-based teaching method. This teacher, without any
additional training, experience, or supervision, is now using this
method exclusively for all instruction in the classroom. What
professional area is this teacher likely disregarding?
Ans: instructional competency
As part of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)Act initiated in 2002, each
state is required to collect standardized achievement test results for
students in grades that span from the elementary and intermediate
grade levels to the high school level. True or False?
Ans: True
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The instructional process of starting a lesson at the current
knowledge/understanding level of the students with the intent of
moving them to the next or higher level of understanding and
proficiency.
Ans: Scaffolding
Summative assessment must link directly with the stated learning
objectives of the lesson(s) to obtain the best and most accurate testing
performance. True or False?
Ans: True
What students are going to be expected to learn and be able to do
because of the instruction they receive is directly connected to
Ans: learning targets
All of the following are examples of questions self-assessing students
might ask themselves EXCEPT...
A) "What can I do to improve the paper I am writing?"
B) "Did I understand what I just read?"
C) "How many of my classmates understand this chapter?"
D) "Does this information connect with what was covered yesterday?"
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Ans: C) "How many of my classmates understand this chapter?"
Mr. Thomas, the 8th grade Algebra teacher, has reviewed the in-class
worksheets that are handed out and collected weekly. He marks
whether each problem is correctly solved.ccording to Bloom, in
addition to performance feedback, what else needs to be provided to
the students, especially those that missed an item or items on the
worksheet
Ans: corrective feedback
Summative assessment is designed to
A) inform instruction as it is occurring
B) serve as an informal evaluation
C) be provided throughout the entire lesson
D) none of the above
Ans: D) none of the above
Pre-assessment should take place at what time during a lesson?
Ans: prior to the start of the lesson
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