WGU D184 Standards-Based Assessment
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• Proficiency Scales -✓✓Measure student achievement of knowledge and skills in
standards over time.
• Half Point Score Values -✓✓Used in proficiency scales for mastery at one level, but
does not meet all of the criteria for the next level.
• Generic Scale -✓✓Used for every topic where students are rated 1-4 based on their
knowledge. These are not topic-specific; for example, a level 3 is on grade level, but no
other specific information is provided.
• Consistency of Behavior -✓✓Not to be used on a proficiency scale, as this is a
qualifying type of scale which uses the words sometimes, always, seldom etc.
• Definitional Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Defining characteristics of something,
describe or explain
• Cognitive Analysis Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Determining, organizing, analysis
• Mental Procedural Knowledge -✓✓Skills or processes, evaluates
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓Monitor students growth on the same skills multiple times.
• Assessment Blueprint -✓✓Created to ensure assessments are aligned with learning
targets.
• Method of Mounting Evidence -✓✓Determine what the students' summative score
should be based on prior patterns of scores.
• True score -✓✓Recognizes that there is some inherent error on a test, its' an
estimation, the true level of understanding
• Observed Score -✓✓= True Score + Error Score
• Aberrant pattenrs -✓✓you need to determine if the pattern is reliable or if the student
was having a bad day etc.
, • Standards Referenced Grading Systems -✓✓students demonstrate learning
outcomes based on standards.
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓one standard is assessed at a time
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓Assessment results do not contain content outside of
the stated standard.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓They help identify content and skills to be tested.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓Concepts
• Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Understanding concepts without application
• Procedural Knowledge -✓✓Demonstration is a method of illustrating procedural
knowledge
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓given to measure student progress on one standard over
time
• Unidimensionality -✓✓Parallel Assessments
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓remove much of the error from student scores to provide a
true score
• Point Scoring Method -✓✓It is used to determine the percentage of available points a
student earned on sections of a test, which is translated into a score on a proficiency
scale
• Response Code Scoring -✓✓Each student answer is marked with labels, and the
pattern of labels is then examined to determine the student's level of proficiency.
• method of mounting evidence -✓✓It estimates summative scores over time based on
observed patterns
• method of mathematical models -✓✓uses technology to estimate a student's true
summative score that occurs at any point in timeUses
• best-fit model -✓✓It is determined by comparing error rates between the true scores
predicted and the actual scores observed
• Marzano Growth Calculator -✓✓uses the linear, curvilinear, and average
mathematical models
Exam Questions and Answers (2026/2027) |
Authentic Exam Questions | Full Answer Key
| A+
• Proficiency Scales -✓✓Measure student achievement of knowledge and skills in
standards over time.
• Half Point Score Values -✓✓Used in proficiency scales for mastery at one level, but
does not meet all of the criteria for the next level.
• Generic Scale -✓✓Used for every topic where students are rated 1-4 based on their
knowledge. These are not topic-specific; for example, a level 3 is on grade level, but no
other specific information is provided.
• Consistency of Behavior -✓✓Not to be used on a proficiency scale, as this is a
qualifying type of scale which uses the words sometimes, always, seldom etc.
• Definitional Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Defining characteristics of something,
describe or explain
• Cognitive Analysis Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Determining, organizing, analysis
• Mental Procedural Knowledge -✓✓Skills or processes, evaluates
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓Monitor students growth on the same skills multiple times.
• Assessment Blueprint -✓✓Created to ensure assessments are aligned with learning
targets.
• Method of Mounting Evidence -✓✓Determine what the students' summative score
should be based on prior patterns of scores.
• True score -✓✓Recognizes that there is some inherent error on a test, its' an
estimation, the true level of understanding
• Observed Score -✓✓= True Score + Error Score
• Aberrant pattenrs -✓✓you need to determine if the pattern is reliable or if the student
was having a bad day etc.
, • Standards Referenced Grading Systems -✓✓students demonstrate learning
outcomes based on standards.
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓one standard is assessed at a time
• Standards-Based Grading -✓✓Assessment results do not contain content outside of
the stated standard.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓They help identify content and skills to be tested.
• Measurement Topics -✓✓Concepts
• Declarative Knowledge -✓✓Understanding concepts without application
• Procedural Knowledge -✓✓Demonstration is a method of illustrating procedural
knowledge
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓given to measure student progress on one standard over
time
• Unidimensionality -✓✓Parallel Assessments
• Parallel Assessments -✓✓remove much of the error from student scores to provide a
true score
• Point Scoring Method -✓✓It is used to determine the percentage of available points a
student earned on sections of a test, which is translated into a score on a proficiency
scale
• Response Code Scoring -✓✓Each student answer is marked with labels, and the
pattern of labels is then examined to determine the student's level of proficiency.
• method of mounting evidence -✓✓It estimates summative scores over time based on
observed patterns
• method of mathematical models -✓✓uses technology to estimate a student's true
summative score that occurs at any point in timeUses
• best-fit model -✓✓It is determined by comparing error rates between the true scores
predicted and the actual scores observed
• Marzano Growth Calculator -✓✓uses the linear, curvilinear, and average
mathematical models
