WEST-E special education study Exam
(Question & Answers 2025)
Standardized tests are often used for? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning
problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The public loss of confidence in education
Reliability- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔relates to the accuracy with
which skills & knowledge are measured
Valid reasons for assessing students- - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔inform decision makers about student behaviors, monitor
student progress toward a goal, screen students for specific purposes
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are
important- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔help ensure that the results
will be an accurate indication of student ability, enable most students
to be tested, enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement
test accommodation- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔accommodation
changes the nature of the measurement
,WEST-E special education study Exam
(Question & Answers 2025)
Fair & ethical testing procedures- - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔research scores from individual minority populations to
determine whether scores are comparable, provide non-English-
speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science
exams in their native language, grade essays without regard for who
wrote
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assign students to remedial or accelerated
tracks based solely on their scores, compute glass grades using
standardized test scores, compare scores on the exam to in-class
quizzes
Criterion-Referenced Tests- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assessments
that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas
of knowledge
Norm-Referenced Tests- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assessments
that compare the performance of one student against the performance
of others
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔scores are comparable across populations
, WEST-E special education study Exam
(Question & Answers 2025)
Formative Assessment- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔continuous
feedback to the teacher, test smaller units, monitor progress, informal
Summative Assessment- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔final evaluations
of students' achievement of an objective
Selected Response- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-test items in which
respondents can select from one or more possible answers, without
requiring the scorer to interpret their response
- limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement
tests
Constructed Response- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-requires student
to supply rather than to select the answer
-difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with
multiple lines of reasoning, depends on writing ability
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔sometimes decision need to be made quickly, and there is not
time for reflection
(Question & Answers 2025)
Standardized tests are often used for? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning
problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The public loss of confidence in education
Reliability- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔relates to the accuracy with
which skills & knowledge are measured
Valid reasons for assessing students- - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔inform decision makers about student behaviors, monitor
student progress toward a goal, screen students for specific purposes
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are
important- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔help ensure that the results
will be an accurate indication of student ability, enable most students
to be tested, enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement
test accommodation- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔accommodation
changes the nature of the measurement
,WEST-E special education study Exam
(Question & Answers 2025)
Fair & ethical testing procedures- - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔research scores from individual minority populations to
determine whether scores are comparable, provide non-English-
speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science
exams in their native language, grade essays without regard for who
wrote
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assign students to remedial or accelerated
tracks based solely on their scores, compute glass grades using
standardized test scores, compare scores on the exam to in-class
quizzes
Criterion-Referenced Tests- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assessments
that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas
of knowledge
Norm-Referenced Tests- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔assessments
that compare the performance of one student against the performance
of others
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔scores are comparable across populations
, WEST-E special education study Exam
(Question & Answers 2025)
Formative Assessment- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔continuous
feedback to the teacher, test smaller units, monitor progress, informal
Summative Assessment- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔final evaluations
of students' achievement of an objective
Selected Response- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-test items in which
respondents can select from one or more possible answers, without
requiring the scorer to interpret their response
- limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement
tests
Constructed Response- - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-requires student
to supply rather than to select the answer
-difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with
multiple lines of reasoning, depends on writing ability
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔sometimes decision need to be made quickly, and there is not
time for reflection
