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Name__________________________ Assessment Fill in the blank next to the question: State whether the given assessment would be a criterion-referenced assessment or norm- referenced assessment. _________ An individual is taking his or her driver’s license exam and must not make more than three errors. _________ The ACT and SAT are examples of this kind of assessment because they compare students to other students nationwide. _________ Students are given a percentage grade directly proportional to the number of correct answers to total questions. For example, if a student correctly answered nine out of ten questions on a math test, that student would receive a 90%. _________ Students take standardized tests in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades to compare results with other schools from around the state. State whether the following statements are true of false. _________ An assessment where there is a cut off line between pass and fail is known as mastery testing. _________ If students are being compared to one another on a standardized test in the same grade, this is an example of criterion-referenced assessment. _________ If a particular student performs in the 90 th percentile on a standardized test, that student performed better than 90% of the students that took the same test. _________ The normal bell curve has a perfect normal distribution.
Short Essay Questions Explain in a short essay (3-5 sentences), using topics from the reading and the class lecture to support your argument, if norm-referenced or criterion-referenced assessment is more appropriate given the following scenarios REMEMBER to support your argument; do not give a simple two word answer as this will be counted incorrectly. 1. You want to assess whether or not all of your students need review before moving on to a new topic. How would you go about assessing your students? 2. You are a first year teacher at your first job! A partner teacher uses different teaching strategies than you do. Throughout the year you two will be comparing your students’ test grades. Describe the best assessment strategy you two will use in order to assess which teaching strategy was more successful.
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