CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT PRINCIPLES
AND PRACTICE THAT ENHANCE STUDENT
LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SET
FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Content Standard
Answer: Most important: Describes knowledge or skills students need to
learn.
●● Performance Standard
Answer: Identifies desired level of proficiency for a content standard.
●● Alignment
Answer: Degree to which there is a meaningful agreement between two
or more of: Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment.
●● 4 Selected-Response Test Items Types
Answer: Binary-Choice, Multiple-Choice, Multiple-Binary Choice,
Matching Items
, ●● Inferences of Cognitive Status
Answer: Knowledge and skills teachers try to promote in their students.
●● 5 Item-Writing Guidelines
Answer: 1) Don't provide opaque directions 2) No ambiguous statements
3) No unintentional clues 4) No complex syntax (complicated sentences)
5) No advanced vocabulary
●● Binary-Choice Item
Answer: Two options-Usually T/F
●● Guidelines for Binary Choice
Answer: 1) Phrase so answers can't be skimmed 2) Don't use negative
statements 3) One concept per statement 4) Similar proportions (ex.
equal # of T/F) 5) Item lengths similar for answers
●● Assessment-Illuminated Instruction
Answer: Rests on the assumption that what is to be assessed will
influence the teacher's instructional decisions
●● Classification-Consistency Reliability
Answer: A representation of the proportion of students who are
classified identically either on two different test forms or two
administrations of the same test.
AND PRACTICE THAT ENHANCE STUDENT
LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SET
FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Content Standard
Answer: Most important: Describes knowledge or skills students need to
learn.
●● Performance Standard
Answer: Identifies desired level of proficiency for a content standard.
●● Alignment
Answer: Degree to which there is a meaningful agreement between two
or more of: Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment.
●● 4 Selected-Response Test Items Types
Answer: Binary-Choice, Multiple-Choice, Multiple-Binary Choice,
Matching Items
, ●● Inferences of Cognitive Status
Answer: Knowledge and skills teachers try to promote in their students.
●● 5 Item-Writing Guidelines
Answer: 1) Don't provide opaque directions 2) No ambiguous statements
3) No unintentional clues 4) No complex syntax (complicated sentences)
5) No advanced vocabulary
●● Binary-Choice Item
Answer: Two options-Usually T/F
●● Guidelines for Binary Choice
Answer: 1) Phrase so answers can't be skimmed 2) Don't use negative
statements 3) One concept per statement 4) Similar proportions (ex.
equal # of T/F) 5) Item lengths similar for answers
●● Assessment-Illuminated Instruction
Answer: Rests on the assumption that what is to be assessed will
influence the teacher's instructional decisions
●● Classification-Consistency Reliability
Answer: A representation of the proportion of students who are
classified identically either on two different test forms or two
administrations of the same test.