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A trainer has been hired to facilitate a digital image editing skills
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workshop. The learning objective is "Identify the basics of image
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file formats." Participants use software and images provided by
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the workshop sponsors. Which direct assessment method would
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determine whether participants met this objective?
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The undergraduate students in a developmental psychology
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course are learning about genetics. The objective of a lesson in
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the course is "Students will be able to identify whether traits are
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genetic or not genetic." Before class is dismissed, an instructor for
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the course distributes a list of 10 traits and asks students to circle
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the traits that are genetic and cross out the traits that are not.
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Why would this direct assessment be effective in determining
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whether students met the learning objective?
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students to demonstrate their ability to differentiate traits.
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Fifth-grade students are learning about the three branches of
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government during a social studies class. At the end of a lesson, a
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,teacher asks students to complete a 3-2-1 writing assignment in
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which they list the three branches of government, two facts about
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each branch, and one question. With which learning objective
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would this direct assessment method align?
i,- "Students will be
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able to recall the features of the three branches of the United
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States government." i,-
One of the learning objectives of a ninth-grade anatomy unit
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about the systems of the body is "Students will be able to
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describe the functions of the respiratory system." Which project-
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based assessment would determine whether students have met
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this objective?
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the respiratory system
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Students in a second-grade class are learning how to tell time.
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The learning objective of a lesson is "Students will be able to
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identify the correct time on an analog clock." At the end of the
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lesson, a teacher distributes a scaled survey to the students so
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they can self-assess their confidence in reading an analog clock.
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Why does this indirect assessment method align with the learning
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objective? Because it allows the teacher to gather i,-i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-
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To meet the learning goal of starting an IV, nursing students must
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veins and arteries. Which assessment aligns with the Understand
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,taxonomy of this learning objective? i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-i,- i,- Classifying vein and i,- i,- i,-
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In a college chemistry course, students construct a model of a
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benzene ring. The learning objective is "Investigate the properties
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of a benzene ring." Which cognitive level of the revised Bloom's
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taxonomy does the students' construction of the model reflect?
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A lesson objective for a ninth-grade history class is "Students will
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be able to explain how the preamble serves as an introduction to
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the United States Constitution." Which assessment would align
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with this objective and the Understand level of the revised
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Bloom's taxonomy? Paraphrasing the preamble to the United
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The learning goal of a seventh-grade geometry unit is "Students
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will be able to calculate the surface area of given geometric
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figures." The students' teacher is planning an assessment that
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aligns with the Apply cognitive level and the Procedural
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knowledge dimension. Which assessment would align with thisi,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-
learning goal, the Apply cognitive level, and the Procedural
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knowledge dimension? Calculating the surface area of several
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shapes
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nouns in their English language arts class. At the end of a lesson,
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a teacher distributes electronic clickers to the students, lists one
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noun at a time on a whiteboard, and asks students to select
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whether the noun is a common or proper noun. Which learning
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objective aligns with this assessment and the Analyze cognitive
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level of the revised Bloom's taxonomy?
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to differentiate between common and proper nouns in sentences.
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An individual has been hired to train an organization's
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The training runs for three days. The individual wants to know the
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progress of each participant at the end of the first day and use
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that information to plan the second day's instruction.
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Formative
An instructor is teaching an eight-week clinical health course to
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college students. At the beginning of the course, each student
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performs a complex clinical procedure while being recorded. At
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the end of the course, students perform the same procedure
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while being recorded. The students compare these performances
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and reflect on how their ability to perform the complex procedure
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has progressed. i,-Ipsative i,-i,- i,-
The learning goal for a research foundations course is "Apply a
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variety of approaches to identify and solve problems." The
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