FTCE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ENGLISH
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
COMPLETE ANSWERS ACCURATE
⫸ What is an advantage of criterion reference assessment over norm-
refernce? Answer: An advantage of criterion-referenced tests over norm-
referenced tests is their diagnostic, placement, and remediation use.
Teachers in Florida are expected to analyze student performance data to
address remediation needs of individual students.
⫸ Formative assessment Answer: occurs before and during instruction.
It is critical to teachers' instructional decision making. Formative
assessments include screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, and
various informal classroom assessments.
⫸ Summative assessment Answer: occurs after instruction has taken
place at the end of an instructional unit, regular grading period, or school
year. Summative assessments include outcome assessments and report
cards.
⫸ Screening assessments Answer: are administered to all students.
BOY ( baseline), MOY (midyear), EOY (end of the year).
,⫸ Diagnostic assessment Answer: are administered (usually
individually) to selected students for the purpose of identifying learning
strengths and weaknesses with critical skills and concepts.
⫸ Progress monitoring assessments Answer: are regularly administered
(that is, dynamic, ongoing) assessments used to evaluate students'
academic progress for the purpose of making data-based decisions
regarding instruction and interventions.
⫸ When should progress monitor assessment should be used? Answer:
Progress monitoring should occur routinely (weekly, biweekly, or
monthly) and use valid and reliable assessments that are sensitive to
small changes in student academic performance.
⫸ Informal classroom assessment Answer: Informal classroom
assessments include teacher observations, anecdotal records, classroom
questioning, checklists, guided practice, student activities, portfolios and
work samples, projects and products, teacher-made quizzes and tests,
and homework. Progress reports.
⫸ Outcome assessments Answer: Outcome assessments include the
end-of-year statewide, standardized assessments; standardized norm-
referenced tests; and end-of-grading period assessments. Data from these
assessments are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the instructional
program.
⫸ What are two type of summative assessments? Answer: Outcome
assessments and report cards.
, ⫸ Assessment that occurs at the end of an instructional unit is
__________ assessment. Answer: summative
⫸ Formative assessments that are designed to identify a student's
strengths and weaknesses are __________ assessments. Answer:
diagnostic
⫸ What are the types of formative assessments? Answer: Screening
assessments, diagnostic, progress monitoring, informal classroom
assessment.
⫸ What does reliability refferest to? Answer: Reliability refers to the
consistency of a measurement over time and repeated measurements. If a
teacher gives alternate forms of the same test periodically over several
months and the students' performance scores remain relatively the same,
the test has reliability.
⫸ Validity Answer: has to do with whether the assessment instrument
measures what it is supposed to measure. Validity can be determined by
comparing a test score against some separate or independent observation
of whatever is being measured. If a teacher wants to measure math
skills, the test must measure math skills, not reading skills.
⫸ Normed-reference test Answer: norm-referenced test (such as the
National Assessment of Educational Progress) is one that assesses
students by comparing their performance to that of a norm group.
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
COMPLETE ANSWERS ACCURATE
⫸ What is an advantage of criterion reference assessment over norm-
refernce? Answer: An advantage of criterion-referenced tests over norm-
referenced tests is their diagnostic, placement, and remediation use.
Teachers in Florida are expected to analyze student performance data to
address remediation needs of individual students.
⫸ Formative assessment Answer: occurs before and during instruction.
It is critical to teachers' instructional decision making. Formative
assessments include screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, and
various informal classroom assessments.
⫸ Summative assessment Answer: occurs after instruction has taken
place at the end of an instructional unit, regular grading period, or school
year. Summative assessments include outcome assessments and report
cards.
⫸ Screening assessments Answer: are administered to all students.
BOY ( baseline), MOY (midyear), EOY (end of the year).
,⫸ Diagnostic assessment Answer: are administered (usually
individually) to selected students for the purpose of identifying learning
strengths and weaknesses with critical skills and concepts.
⫸ Progress monitoring assessments Answer: are regularly administered
(that is, dynamic, ongoing) assessments used to evaluate students'
academic progress for the purpose of making data-based decisions
regarding instruction and interventions.
⫸ When should progress monitor assessment should be used? Answer:
Progress monitoring should occur routinely (weekly, biweekly, or
monthly) and use valid and reliable assessments that are sensitive to
small changes in student academic performance.
⫸ Informal classroom assessment Answer: Informal classroom
assessments include teacher observations, anecdotal records, classroom
questioning, checklists, guided practice, student activities, portfolios and
work samples, projects and products, teacher-made quizzes and tests,
and homework. Progress reports.
⫸ Outcome assessments Answer: Outcome assessments include the
end-of-year statewide, standardized assessments; standardized norm-
referenced tests; and end-of-grading period assessments. Data from these
assessments are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the instructional
program.
⫸ What are two type of summative assessments? Answer: Outcome
assessments and report cards.
, ⫸ Assessment that occurs at the end of an instructional unit is
__________ assessment. Answer: summative
⫸ Formative assessments that are designed to identify a student's
strengths and weaknesses are __________ assessments. Answer:
diagnostic
⫸ What are the types of formative assessments? Answer: Screening
assessments, diagnostic, progress monitoring, informal classroom
assessment.
⫸ What does reliability refferest to? Answer: Reliability refers to the
consistency of a measurement over time and repeated measurements. If a
teacher gives alternate forms of the same test periodically over several
months and the students' performance scores remain relatively the same,
the test has reliability.
⫸ Validity Answer: has to do with whether the assessment instrument
measures what it is supposed to measure. Validity can be determined by
comparing a test score against some separate or independent observation
of whatever is being measured. If a teacher wants to measure math
skills, the test must measure math skills, not reading skills.
⫸ Normed-reference test Answer: norm-referenced test (such as the
National Assessment of Educational Progress) is one that assesses
students by comparing their performance to that of a norm group.
