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Valdosta State University |
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Valdosta State University |
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1. Define WYMIWYG. (1)
A. Describe ONE reason why WYMIWYG
is important to teacher assessments (2).
B. List and describe the 6 levels
of the Bloom, Engelhart, Furst, Hill, and Krathwohl. (1956) taxonomy
of objectives (KCAASE). (6)
C. Describe one reason why the
Bloom et al. (1956) taxonomy is important to WYMIWYG. (2).
2. List one reason why course grades
are often not POWERFUL incentives/rewards. (1)
3. Describe ONE difference between
formative and summative evaluations. (1)
4. List TWO types of of OBJECTIVE
quiz/test items. (1)
5. The most common type of non-objective
exam item (note: non-objective is NOT a synonym for SUBJECTIVE.
Assessment items should NOT be subjective or biased) is the essay
question. What is ONE of the major advantages for
teachers to use essay item in addition to other types? (2)
6. Which type of grading approach
would most likely be associated with criterion-referenced testing?
(1)
7. A common mistake made by teachers is that assessment and evaluation are the same thing. They are NOT. Assessment is a global term that means to measure/quantify something. Evaluation involves judging something. Teachers should accurately measure student performance related to academic content and use this performance as the basis for judging whether the student's performance is satisfactory, deficient, or above average. All assessments teachers give should be scored as objectively as possible (which means using a key-, and a key can be developed for any type of assignment teachers make!). Once scored the teacher assigns a grade to the student's performance. This evaluation can be criterion-referenced or norm-referenced. Define norm referencing. (2)
8. There are three types of objectives used in education: Educational, instructional, and behavioral.
BOs are student centered statements.
All behavioral objectives must specify an observable response
that the student does, the conditions specifying when and where
the behavior must occur, and the degree of accuracy the behavior
must conform with to be judged acceptable (i.e., degree).
A. Rewrite each of the following
statements as BOs.
"The student will know the
causes of the Civil War." (3)
"Be able to discuss the importance
of Carroll's (1963) theory of instruction and learning."
(3)
9. A task analysis is one of the most important skills teachers need to learn and refine. A TA involves breaking the complex task/behavior specified in an objective down into a series of simpler discrete responses that the student does. The teacher then teaches (using positive reinforcement, modeling, etc.) each component skill to the student, chains each component to the others in the right sequence, and the student has learned the complex activity.
A. A TA approach reflects which
type of processing, bottom-to-top, or top-to-bottom? (2)
B. Break the following complex behavior into the simpler responses that make up the more complex behavior. (HINT: when I do a TA, I simply pretend that I am doing the complex behavior and specify which response I do first, second, etc. until I've "done" the complex behavior.) (3)
Given the formula V = L x W
x H, students will use paper, pencil, ruler, and calculator, to
accurately calculate the volume of 9 out of 10 boxes.
10. Grondlund (1991) has identified 6 principles of effective achievement testing that teachers should follow. Describe and TWO of the remaining 6 points.