WGU D184 - STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT | QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
• Proficiency Scales -✓✓ Measure student achievement of knowledge and skills in
standards over time.
• Half Point Score Values -✓✓ Used in proficiency scales for mastery at one level,
but does not meet all of the criteria for the next level.
• Generic Scale -✓✓ Used for every topic where students are rated 1-4 based on
their knowledge. These are not topic-specific; for example, a level 3 is on grade
level, but no other specific information is provided.
• Consistency of Behavior -✓✓ Not to be used on a proficiency scale, as this is a
qualifying type of scale which uses the words sometimes, always, seldom etc.
• Definitional Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ Defining characteristics of something,
describe or explain
• Cognitive Analysis Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ Determining, organizing,
analysis
• Mental Procedural Knowledge -✓✓ Skills or processes, evaluates
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓ Monitor students growth on the same skills multiple
times.
, • Assessment Blueprint -✓✓ Created to ensure assessments are aligned with
learning targets.
• Method of Mounting Evidence -✓✓ Determine what the students' summative
score should be based on prior patterns of scores.
• True score -✓✓ Recognizes that there is some inherent error on a test, its' an
estimation, the true level of understanding
• Observed Score -✓✓ = True Score + Error Score
• Aberrant pattenrs -✓✓ you need to determine if the pattern is reliable or if the
student was having a bad day etc.
• Standards Referenced Grading Systems -✓✓ students demonstrate learning
outcomes based on standards.
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓ one standard is assessed at a time
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓ Assessment results do not contain content outside
of the stated standard.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓ They help identify content and skills to be tested.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓ Concepts
AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
• Proficiency Scales -✓✓ Measure student achievement of knowledge and skills in
standards over time.
• Half Point Score Values -✓✓ Used in proficiency scales for mastery at one level,
but does not meet all of the criteria for the next level.
• Generic Scale -✓✓ Used for every topic where students are rated 1-4 based on
their knowledge. These are not topic-specific; for example, a level 3 is on grade
level, but no other specific information is provided.
• Consistency of Behavior -✓✓ Not to be used on a proficiency scale, as this is a
qualifying type of scale which uses the words sometimes, always, seldom etc.
• Definitional Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ Defining characteristics of something,
describe or explain
• Cognitive Analysis Declarative Knowledge -✓✓ Determining, organizing,
analysis
• Mental Procedural Knowledge -✓✓ Skills or processes, evaluates
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓ Monitor students growth on the same skills multiple
times.
, • Assessment Blueprint -✓✓ Created to ensure assessments are aligned with
learning targets.
• Method of Mounting Evidence -✓✓ Determine what the students' summative
score should be based on prior patterns of scores.
• True score -✓✓ Recognizes that there is some inherent error on a test, its' an
estimation, the true level of understanding
• Observed Score -✓✓ = True Score + Error Score
• Aberrant pattenrs -✓✓ you need to determine if the pattern is reliable or if the
student was having a bad day etc.
• Standards Referenced Grading Systems -✓✓ students demonstrate learning
outcomes based on standards.
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓ one standard is assessed at a time
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓ Assessment results do not contain content outside
of the stated standard.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓ They help identify content and skills to be tested.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓ Concepts
