WGU D596 CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Multiple Stakeholders want Assessments to Meet a Variety of Needs.
Answer: educators want test results to inform instruction; taxpayers want to
know that the money they spend translates into student learning; governors
want assurances that their students are achieving at a level similar to or
better than students in other states
◍ Implementation.
Answer: Begin converting the models from the previous steps into the actual
system; this step also includes installing hardware, testing the system, and
training the end users
◍ No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2002.
Answer: is a government mandate to schools and states to have ALL
children up to grade level with their peers. It set unrealistic goals and
penalized schools that did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The
act also required all teachers become "highly qualified". With these new
benchmarks and changes to the ways states' addressed education, came
increased accountability. Failure could mean a decrease in funding or
dissolution of a school/district. Achievement was linked to standardized
testing done grades 3-8 and at least one year during high school. Tied
achievement to annual standardized tests. These tests are administered to
grades 3-8 and at least one year between 9-12th grades.
◍ Content standards.
Answer: describe what students should know and be able to do at the end of
a specified period of learning (e.g., a grade or series of grades). They
provide a framework for curriculum development, instruction, and the
assessment of student achievement. Various professional organizations have
, also developed sets of content standards in their particular subject areas. It is
hoped that the use of such standards will raise achievement expectations,
increase the quality of public education, provide a better informed
citizenship, and make the country more competitive with other countries.
◍ Arranging Items on a Test.
Answer: 1. For instructional purposes, it is usually desirable to group
together items that measure the same outcome. -Each group of items can
then be identified by an appropriate heading (e.g., knowledge,
understanding, application). -The inclusion of the headings helps to identify
the areas where students are having difficulty and to plan for remedial
action.2. Where possible, all items of the same type should be grouped
together. -This arrangement makes it possible to provide only one set of
directions for each item type. It also simplifies the scoring and the analysis
of the results.3. The items should be arranged in terms of increasing
difficulty. -This arrangement has motivational effects on students and will
prevent them from getting "bogged down" by difficult items early in the test.
◍ Query.
Answer: A search of data in the relation or relations that fit specific
parameters
◍ Brute Force.
Answer: The process of using all possible combinations of letters and
numbers to crack a password.
◍ Bloom's taxonomy.
Answer: 6. Creating- Putting information together in an innovative way.5.
Evaluating- Making judgments based on a set of guidelines.4. Analysis-
Breaking the concept into parts and understanding 3. Applying- Use
knowledge gained in new ways.how each part is related to one another.2.
Understanding- making sense of what you have learned.1. Remembering-
recalling relevant knowledge from long term memory.
◍ Hacking.
Answer: When an individual obtains unauthorized access to a host
,◍ Parallel Conversion.
Answer: There is a period of time in which both systems are operating
concurrently
◍ Model-View-Controller (MVC).
Answer: A development technique used in the implementation of user
interfaces
◍ Database Management System (DBMS).
Answer: Used to create, manipulate, and access the data in a database
◍ Business Intelligence.
Answer: A specific information system to help an organization reach its
strategic goals
◍ Proxy Server.
Answer: Acts as a giant cache of web pages that anyone in the organization
has recently retrieved; can be used to block access to certain web pages
◍ General Responsibilities of Ethical Practices.
Answer: 1. Protect the health and safety of all participants2. Be
knowledgeable about and behave in compliance with state and federal laws
relevant to the conduct of professional activities3. Maintain and improve
their professional competence in educational assessment4. Provide
assessment services only in areas of their competence and experience,
affording full disclosure of their professional qualifications5. Promote the
understanding of sound assessment practices in educations6. Adhere to the
highest standards of conduct and promote professionally responsible
conduct with educational institutions and agencies that provide educational
services7. Perform all professional responsibilities with honesty, integrity,
due care, and fairness.
◍ Instructional Objectives:.
Answer: Specific statements that describe how students will demonstrate
achievement. Instructional objectives describe intended learning outcomes.
Instructional objectives clarify what standards and benchmarks mean.
, ◍ Hexadecimal.
Answer: Uses a base 16
◍ Assessment is most effective when.
Answer: 1. Designed to assess a clearly defined set of intended learning
outcomes.2. The nature and function of the assessments are congruent with
the outcomes to be assessed.3. The assessments are designed to fit the
relevant student characteristics and are fair to everyone.4. Assessments
provide information that is meaningful, dependable, and relevant.5.
Provision is made for giving the students early feedback of assessment
results.6. Specific learning weaknesses are revealed by the assessment
results.7. Assessment results provide information useful for evaluating the
appropriateness of the objectives, the methods, and the materials of
instruction.
◍ Dicing.
Answer: Creates a subset of the data that can still be in multiple dimensions
◍ Supply Item: Essay Question.
Answer: The most notable characteristic is the freedom of response it
provides.-Students are free to decide how to approach the problem, what
factual information to use, how to organize the answer, and what degree of
emphasis to give each aspect of the response. Thus, the essay question is
especially useful for measuring the ability to organize, integrate, and express
ideas. These are the types of performance for which selection-type items and
short-answer items are so inadequate.
◍ Byte.
Answer: 8 bits; a single character of text in a computer
◍ Achievement Assessment.
Answer: achievement assessment is a broad category that includes all of the
various methods for determining the extent to which students are achieving
the intended learning outcomes of instruction
◍ Mandated Core Components of 'Standards Based Reform'.
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Multiple Stakeholders want Assessments to Meet a Variety of Needs.
Answer: educators want test results to inform instruction; taxpayers want to
know that the money they spend translates into student learning; governors
want assurances that their students are achieving at a level similar to or
better than students in other states
◍ Implementation.
Answer: Begin converting the models from the previous steps into the actual
system; this step also includes installing hardware, testing the system, and
training the end users
◍ No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2002.
Answer: is a government mandate to schools and states to have ALL
children up to grade level with their peers. It set unrealistic goals and
penalized schools that did not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The
act also required all teachers become "highly qualified". With these new
benchmarks and changes to the ways states' addressed education, came
increased accountability. Failure could mean a decrease in funding or
dissolution of a school/district. Achievement was linked to standardized
testing done grades 3-8 and at least one year during high school. Tied
achievement to annual standardized tests. These tests are administered to
grades 3-8 and at least one year between 9-12th grades.
◍ Content standards.
Answer: describe what students should know and be able to do at the end of
a specified period of learning (e.g., a grade or series of grades). They
provide a framework for curriculum development, instruction, and the
assessment of student achievement. Various professional organizations have
, also developed sets of content standards in their particular subject areas. It is
hoped that the use of such standards will raise achievement expectations,
increase the quality of public education, provide a better informed
citizenship, and make the country more competitive with other countries.
◍ Arranging Items on a Test.
Answer: 1. For instructional purposes, it is usually desirable to group
together items that measure the same outcome. -Each group of items can
then be identified by an appropriate heading (e.g., knowledge,
understanding, application). -The inclusion of the headings helps to identify
the areas where students are having difficulty and to plan for remedial
action.2. Where possible, all items of the same type should be grouped
together. -This arrangement makes it possible to provide only one set of
directions for each item type. It also simplifies the scoring and the analysis
of the results.3. The items should be arranged in terms of increasing
difficulty. -This arrangement has motivational effects on students and will
prevent them from getting "bogged down" by difficult items early in the test.
◍ Query.
Answer: A search of data in the relation or relations that fit specific
parameters
◍ Brute Force.
Answer: The process of using all possible combinations of letters and
numbers to crack a password.
◍ Bloom's taxonomy.
Answer: 6. Creating- Putting information together in an innovative way.5.
Evaluating- Making judgments based on a set of guidelines.4. Analysis-
Breaking the concept into parts and understanding 3. Applying- Use
knowledge gained in new ways.how each part is related to one another.2.
Understanding- making sense of what you have learned.1. Remembering-
recalling relevant knowledge from long term memory.
◍ Hacking.
Answer: When an individual obtains unauthorized access to a host
,◍ Parallel Conversion.
Answer: There is a period of time in which both systems are operating
concurrently
◍ Model-View-Controller (MVC).
Answer: A development technique used in the implementation of user
interfaces
◍ Database Management System (DBMS).
Answer: Used to create, manipulate, and access the data in a database
◍ Business Intelligence.
Answer: A specific information system to help an organization reach its
strategic goals
◍ Proxy Server.
Answer: Acts as a giant cache of web pages that anyone in the organization
has recently retrieved; can be used to block access to certain web pages
◍ General Responsibilities of Ethical Practices.
Answer: 1. Protect the health and safety of all participants2. Be
knowledgeable about and behave in compliance with state and federal laws
relevant to the conduct of professional activities3. Maintain and improve
their professional competence in educational assessment4. Provide
assessment services only in areas of their competence and experience,
affording full disclosure of their professional qualifications5. Promote the
understanding of sound assessment practices in educations6. Adhere to the
highest standards of conduct and promote professionally responsible
conduct with educational institutions and agencies that provide educational
services7. Perform all professional responsibilities with honesty, integrity,
due care, and fairness.
◍ Instructional Objectives:.
Answer: Specific statements that describe how students will demonstrate
achievement. Instructional objectives describe intended learning outcomes.
Instructional objectives clarify what standards and benchmarks mean.
, ◍ Hexadecimal.
Answer: Uses a base 16
◍ Assessment is most effective when.
Answer: 1. Designed to assess a clearly defined set of intended learning
outcomes.2. The nature and function of the assessments are congruent with
the outcomes to be assessed.3. The assessments are designed to fit the
relevant student characteristics and are fair to everyone.4. Assessments
provide information that is meaningful, dependable, and relevant.5.
Provision is made for giving the students early feedback of assessment
results.6. Specific learning weaknesses are revealed by the assessment
results.7. Assessment results provide information useful for evaluating the
appropriateness of the objectives, the methods, and the materials of
instruction.
◍ Dicing.
Answer: Creates a subset of the data that can still be in multiple dimensions
◍ Supply Item: Essay Question.
Answer: The most notable characteristic is the freedom of response it
provides.-Students are free to decide how to approach the problem, what
factual information to use, how to organize the answer, and what degree of
emphasis to give each aspect of the response. Thus, the essay question is
especially useful for measuring the ability to organize, integrate, and express
ideas. These are the types of performance for which selection-type items and
short-answer items are so inadequate.
◍ Byte.
Answer: 8 bits; a single character of text in a computer
◍ Achievement Assessment.
Answer: achievement assessment is a broad category that includes all of the
various methods for determining the extent to which students are achieving
the intended learning outcomes of instruction
◍ Mandated Core Components of 'Standards Based Reform'.
