WGU Educational Assessment (Study for Assessment) Questions and Answers Already Passed

WGU Educational Assessment (Study for Assessment) Questions and Answers Already Passed system of assessments ✔✔included multiple levels of assessments that are to provide different info to different people for many p ...

WGU Educational Assessment (Study for Assessment) Questions and Answers Already Passed system of assessments ✔✔included multiple levels of assessments that are to provide different info to different people for many purposes balanced assessment program example ✔✔placement, formative, diagnostic, summative assessments balanced assessment ✔✔set of interacting assessments focused on serving the needs of all for the common purpose of improving education assessment plan ✔✔document that outlines the student learning outcomes, the direct and indirect assessment methods used to demonstrate the attainment of each outcome, the time frame for collecting and reviewing data, and the individual who will be doing so. placement assessment ✔✔measures entry behavior to see where a students learning is PRIOR to the lesson formative assessment ✔✔measures learning DURING the process to monitor the learning during instruction diagnostic assessment ✔✔identifies possible learning problems DURING instruction summative assessment ✔✔measures the END or final achievement to see what level the student learned either at the end of a lesson or end of the year formal assessments ✔✔constructed by specialists or textbook publishers and are summative informal assessments ✔✔usually teacher generated and are formative. They are adaptable to content and instruction differentiated instruction ✔✔an approach in which teachers adjust their instruction to fit the needs of ALL students content ✔✔knowledge and skills students are required to master process ✔✔ACTIVITIES students use to master the content product ✔✔METHOD students use to demonstrate learning accommodations ✔✔adaptations that DO NOT change expectations or reduce requirements modifications ✔✔adaptations that DO change expectations and/or reduce requirements validity ✔✔appropriateness of the interpretations made from results reliability ✔✔concerned with consistency ESEA ✔✔expanded federal role for k-12 ESEA ✔✔Title 1 developed and appropriated ESEA ✔✔Bilingual Education Act Nation at Risk ✔✔said public education was broken Nation at Risk ✔✔stated federal government should be more involved in state educational standards NCLB ✔✔states set own educational standards NCLB ✔✔Provide funding incentives NCLB ✔✔hold schools accountable for failing scores NCLB ✔✔schools must make adequate yearly progress. If not, they would face graduated sanctions IDEA ✔✔accommodations when necessary and students could have alternative assessments ESSA ✔✔42 states develop common core ESSA ✔✔prepare students for college ESSA ✔✔high quality preschool ESSA ✔✔reduce test burden tests ✔✔any of a variety of procedures used to obtain information about student progress selected response ✔✔type of assessment question in which students choose or select their response selected response examples ✔✔t/f, matching, multiple choice true false strength ✔✔it is useful when there are only two possible answers true false limitation ✔✔making an item false provides no evidence that the student knows it is correct multiple choice strength ✔✔highly structured and clear tasks are provided multiple choice limitation ✔✔it is frequently difficult to find plausible distractors matching strength ✔✔reading and response time is short matching limitation ✔✔this item type is restricted to simple knowledge outcomes based on association interpretive exercises ✔✔assessment questions that interpret a graph of paragraph or want a meaning explanation interpretive strength ✔✔an efficient means of measuring the interpretation of printed information in various form interpretive limitation ✔✔this item type is highly suspect to extraneous clues supply response ✔✔type of assessment question in