Comprehensive Exam – Old Dominion University – Study
Guide and Key Concepts
FOUND 641- If you were designing tests to assess these areas, what method of assessment
would be a best fit for each? - ANS✔✔ 1. Knowledge Test
2. Reasoning Test
3. Products and Skills
Knowledge Test - ANS✔✔ Use selected response as it is efficient and assesses multiple points of
knowledge. Get the students involved in the assessment process.
• Ex: MC-Multiple Choice.
Selected Response - ANS✔✔ Useful assessment to understand current level of mastery
Reason Test - ANS✔✔ Extended Written Response- Helps to display the student's thought
process as they write out their ideas. Through their writings the teacher can promote learning
by correcting any misconceptions or misunderstandings.
Reasoning Test Example - ANS✔✔ Students could read each other's work to learn more on a
topic/lesson through the different perspective. It could lead to class discussions or debates.
Ex: Students could write an essay about why the 13 colonist felt the need to rebel against
England. In this assessment the students must use the knowledge learned to create and
communicate their learning through their perspective and beliefs.
3. Products and Skills - ANS✔✔ Use product and skill assessment (Performance Assessment)
The students are using hands on activities and manipulative's which builds the content
knowledge into the product and allows students to create their own learning. The students have
more control over their learning.
, Performance Assessment Examples - ANS✔✔ • Ex: Science experiments- creating the solar
system or moon phases poster.
• Ex: Social Studies- 4th grade, Reading and recognizing a poster from the Jim Crow era and
being able to write about it. Which will evaluate reading skills, as well as their knowledge of the
context of events during this time period, in the process of sourcing and critically reading a
document.
Each promote student learning and not just measure it because.... - ANS✔✔ 1) Students are
included in the planning process.
2) Students are given the opportunity to review what they missed and set goals for
improvement.
3) Students self-monitor their work and growth.
READ 680- What is PAR and explain, with examples, how you plan to use the strategies to teach
vocabulary concepts. - ANS✔✔ (Prepare, Assist, Reflect)
Prepare: Determines background and builds a background where necessary. - ANS✔✔ Vocab
Strategies
1. Anticipation Guide: Pre-reading activity. Introduces key words and gives students a chance to
predict what reading will be about. Brings misconceptions about a topic to the surface.
Ex:
Prepare: Determines background and builds a background where necessary. (Part 2). - ANS✔✔
2. Graphic Organizers: Information is displayed in a diagram and a discussion takes place on why
it is arranged that way.
Ex: Idea Web, KWL
Guide and Key Concepts
FOUND 641- If you were designing tests to assess these areas, what method of assessment
would be a best fit for each? - ANS✔✔ 1. Knowledge Test
2. Reasoning Test
3. Products and Skills
Knowledge Test - ANS✔✔ Use selected response as it is efficient and assesses multiple points of
knowledge. Get the students involved in the assessment process.
• Ex: MC-Multiple Choice.
Selected Response - ANS✔✔ Useful assessment to understand current level of mastery
Reason Test - ANS✔✔ Extended Written Response- Helps to display the student's thought
process as they write out their ideas. Through their writings the teacher can promote learning
by correcting any misconceptions or misunderstandings.
Reasoning Test Example - ANS✔✔ Students could read each other's work to learn more on a
topic/lesson through the different perspective. It could lead to class discussions or debates.
Ex: Students could write an essay about why the 13 colonist felt the need to rebel against
England. In this assessment the students must use the knowledge learned to create and
communicate their learning through their perspective and beliefs.
3. Products and Skills - ANS✔✔ Use product and skill assessment (Performance Assessment)
The students are using hands on activities and manipulative's which builds the content
knowledge into the product and allows students to create their own learning. The students have
more control over their learning.
, Performance Assessment Examples - ANS✔✔ • Ex: Science experiments- creating the solar
system or moon phases poster.
• Ex: Social Studies- 4th grade, Reading and recognizing a poster from the Jim Crow era and
being able to write about it. Which will evaluate reading skills, as well as their knowledge of the
context of events during this time period, in the process of sourcing and critically reading a
document.
Each promote student learning and not just measure it because.... - ANS✔✔ 1) Students are
included in the planning process.
2) Students are given the opportunity to review what they missed and set goals for
improvement.
3) Students self-monitor their work and growth.
READ 680- What is PAR and explain, with examples, how you plan to use the strategies to teach
vocabulary concepts. - ANS✔✔ (Prepare, Assist, Reflect)
Prepare: Determines background and builds a background where necessary. - ANS✔✔ Vocab
Strategies
1. Anticipation Guide: Pre-reading activity. Introduces key words and gives students a chance to
predict what reading will be about. Brings misconceptions about a topic to the surface.
Ex:
Prepare: Determines background and builds a background where necessary. (Part 2). - ANS✔✔
2. Graphic Organizers: Information is displayed in a diagram and a discussion takes place on why
it is arranged that way.
Ex: Idea Web, KWL
