Final QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED TO
PASS(WGU D169)
Appropriately or inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Goal-attainment grading emphasizes a teacher's communicating information to
students and their parents about students' goal-attainment." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Genuine goal-attainment grading should be based exclusively on a student's
status with respect to the mastery of curricular aims." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"The very first step in goal-attainment grading is for teachers to make certain all
participants in the grade-giving and grade-receiving process understand the nature
of the curricular aims involved." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"As soon as students are reasonably good readers—around grades three or four—teachers who use
goal-attainment grading can employ identical statements of
curricular aims to communicate with both students and their parents." - correct answer
✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Although teachers who employ goal-attainment grading should communicate the
nature of all grade-determining curricular aims to parents and students, there is no
need to communicate the evaluative criteria by which students' goal-mastery will
be determined." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
, Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
After clarifying curricular aims to students and their parents, a goal-attainment
grader should identify the evidence by which a student's attainment of goals will
be determined." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"All assessment-based evidence related to a student's mastery of the teacher's
designated curricular aims should be weighted identically when goal-attainment
graders arrive at students' grades." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Insofar as possible, teachers who employ a goal-attainment approach to grading
must avoid judgmental decisions when coalescing diverse evidence related to
diverse curricular aims." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Goal-attainment graders can properly employ any of the following grade descriptor methods: letter
grades, numerical grades, or verbal descriptors." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"For goal-attainment grading to succeed, especially when used with standards based report cards, it will
often be necessary to meaningfully reduce the number of grade-relevant goals via stringent
prioritization." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Judgmental or Empirical?
A mathematics teacher improves her test items by modifying those items that fail to correlate highly
with students' total test scores. - correct answer ✔✔Empirical
Judgmental or Empirical?
PASS(WGU D169)
Appropriately or inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Goal-attainment grading emphasizes a teacher's communicating information to
students and their parents about students' goal-attainment." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Genuine goal-attainment grading should be based exclusively on a student's
status with respect to the mastery of curricular aims." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"The very first step in goal-attainment grading is for teachers to make certain all
participants in the grade-giving and grade-receiving process understand the nature
of the curricular aims involved." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"As soon as students are reasonably good readers—around grades three or four—teachers who use
goal-attainment grading can employ identical statements of
curricular aims to communicate with both students and their parents." - correct answer
✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Although teachers who employ goal-attainment grading should communicate the
nature of all grade-determining curricular aims to parents and students, there is no
need to communicate the evaluative criteria by which students' goal-mastery will
be determined." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
, Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
After clarifying curricular aims to students and their parents, a goal-attainment
grader should identify the evidence by which a student's attainment of goals will
be determined." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"All assessment-based evidence related to a student's mastery of the teacher's
designated curricular aims should be weighted identically when goal-attainment
graders arrive at students' grades." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Insofar as possible, teachers who employ a goal-attainment approach to grading
must avoid judgmental decisions when coalescing diverse evidence related to
diverse curricular aims." - correct answer ✔✔Inappropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"Goal-attainment graders can properly employ any of the following grade descriptor methods: letter
grades, numerical grades, or verbal descriptors." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Appropriately or Inappropriately represents goal attainment approach to grading?
"For goal-attainment grading to succeed, especially when used with standards based report cards, it will
often be necessary to meaningfully reduce the number of grade-relevant goals via stringent
prioritization." - correct answer ✔✔Appropriately
Judgmental or Empirical?
A mathematics teacher improves her test items by modifying those items that fail to correlate highly
with students' total test scores. - correct answer ✔✔Empirical
Judgmental or Empirical?
